Articles by Max
Marketing
Our sole Hamiltonian, Max is a digital content strategist with degrees in Marketing and Philosophy. He has worked at the intersection of digital UX and marketing for banks, software creators and agencies. Conferences in South Africa, USA and Australia have invited him to talk about what he’s learned there. Working behind a keyboard suits him well: in a completely different job, he once crashed a truck.
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AWS finds a new toll to charge everyone, calls it "modernisation"
AWS puts a price on IPv4 addresses while blocking adoption of IPv6. Another reason to think twice before going all in on The Cloud.
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Lessons from years of AWS cost management
Optimising AWS bills is never easy. Not even if, like our Product and Automation Lead, Ben, you've helped customers save thousands every month.
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The annual cPanel and Plesk price rise strikes again
WebPros have informed us that cPanel, Plesk, and CloudLinux will be more expensive from January 2024. It's an annual event. As always, Cloud Containers offer a way out.
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Dedicated CPUs over the years: There's improvement, and then there's this
A few hundred dollars a month is worth about 100x as much as it used it be.
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Clever companies are leaving the public cloud
We see bare metal improving faster than cloud services. Market analysts see a US$500B opportunity.
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International domain price hike 2023
Our least favourite annual event strikes again, as our provider of .com and other international domains raises prices.
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SiteHost expands bare metal options, adds NVIDIA GPUs
New servers from SiteHost include some incredibly cost-effective Ryzen 9s, and a new GPU Hosting range featuring NVIDIA A40 and A100 GPUs.
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CentOS Linux and RHEL: Avoid the fallout
Things have gotten harder for all those servers and hosting platforms that need to get off CentOS soon.
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How our data centre performed through Auckland’s extreme weather
Record-setting rainfall, gale-force winds and cyclones are going to challenge any infrastructure. Our data centre got through it all.
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Running Elementor Pro and WooCommerce? Update your plugins ASAP
All versions of Elementor Pro up to (and including) 3.11.6 allow users to escalate to WordPress admin access.
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Windows Server licence costs will climb in 2023
A cascade of software licence price increases is hitting the hosting industry. The latest news is from Microsoft.
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Choose business domains carefully, because changing it isn’t easy
Switching your web address might sound easy, but the practicalities are not.
