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.
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.
Announcing Volumes for Cloud Containers
We’re very happy to announce, and shortly release, Volumes to all Cloud Container customers. A new way to manage assets and files, easily sharing them across containers while limiting access to those that need it.
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.
Clever companies are leaving the public cloud
We see bare metal improving faster than cloud services. Market analysts see a US$500B opportunity.
International domain price hike 2023
Our least favourite annual event strikes again, as our provider of .com and other international domains raises prices.
Debian 12 (Bookworm) available on VPS and VDS
The latest Debian release, which will be supported for five years, is now an option on Linux VPS or Virtual Dedicated Servers.
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.
Cloud Container upgrade to Ubuntu Jammy
Ubuntu Jammy is the latest LTS release. See how to schedule maintenance for managed Cloud Container servers or update your own unmanaged servers.
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.
Have you noticed how much faster the Cloud Container platform is?
A small Redis change has massively reduced the waiting time for many jobs on most Cloud Container servers.
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.