Articles by Quintin
Owner & Founder
Quintin is the Technical Director and co-founder of SiteHost. He comes from a development background and has spent the last 10 years becoming an expert in more technologies than we have room to list. Quintin now runs enough infrastructure to ensure that he rarely gets a good night sleep, but he still happily gets up at 3am to look after our customers’ servers. Quintin also has a keen interest in security which has seen him invited to speak at several conferences. When he’s not looking after the SiteHost infrastructure he likes to play football and has recently taken up squash.
If you need to re-enter your credit card details, here’s an explanation
We’ve made a careful and secure switch to a new payment gateway. A small minority of credit cards were left behind.
The ever-improving value of Server Management
It’s always been smart to add Server Management and save time and stress. But did you know that it’s been getting smarter every year?
Data sovereignty is about much more than where your server is
The world’s largest cloud providers are coming to New Zealand. They’ll bring a tangle of legal obligations that talk of “data residency” can’t hide.
AMD’s latest Ryzen CPUs - the 9000 series looks good to us
The newest Ryzen CPUs, the 9000 series, mark the debut of AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. Despite some underwhelming headlines we’re impressed with what we’ve seen.
Talking solar power with Canterbury Tech
Video re-cap: Yesterday I was invited to present our 'Journey to a Solar-Powered Cloud' at Canterbury Tech's Lunchtime Tech Session for April, with a wide-ranging Q&A afterwards.
We blocked thousands of IPs from Azure, all because of one bot
A single bot with a cunning method of hiding behind multiple IP addresses from Azure has led us to go big on defence. Our Technical Director explains.
Another hosting company goes Crazy
Openhost, once an NZ-owned success story, is disappearing. Will customers stay local?
Hosting is Becoming a Global Game in a Time of Support Local
Acquisitions have once again changed the landscape. Quintin, our co-founder, takes a look at the NZ web hosting industry.
How We Deal With DDoS Attacks
In light of the recent DDoS attack on the NZX more than a few of our customers have asked us how SiteHost mitigates DDoS attacks. So we thought we might put out a little post explaining what goes on behind the scenes at SiteHost should this ever happen to you.
Keep calm and cache: The early days of covid19.govt.nz
Our story about the small role we played in the early stages of New Zealand's response to COVID-19.