http://www.net24.co.nz Current News Headlines from Net24 en-us Mon, 12 September 2011 16:00:00 GMT(+12:00) Mon, 12 September 2011 16:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss service@net24.co.nz service@net24.co.nz http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#12092011 Engineers have recently completed upgrades to the latest versions for all installed ASP Components on our Windows shared hosting servers. Latest ASP Component Versions: AspUpload v3.1, AspEmail v5.1.0.3, AspJpeg v2.3, AspPDF v2.2, AspEncrypt v2.5.0.2 and ISAPI_Rewrite v3_0086. Mon, 12 September 2011 16:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#13072011 This notice is for customers using Direct Payment Solutions (Payment Express) for online credit card processing. It applies to customers using the PXPost and PXPay methods only. Customers hosted on our shared web hosting servers using PXAccess, DPSAuthS or DPSAuth methods do not need to make any changes. DPS is upgrading its transaction processing infrastructure. This upgrade will provide more capacity and redundancy as well as improving transaction speed. The migration will require you to make changes to your code before 30th August 2011. Please review the migration notice at the DPS web site for further details : http://www.paymentexpress.com/migration.html Wed, 13 July 2011 16:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#20-1052011 All new VPSs ordered with Parallels Plesk Panel will now come installed with the latest Plesk Panel 10. Existing customers with Plesk Panel 9.5 can upgrade within their Plesk Panel but due to changes in the business logic we would recommend that you run the pre-upgrade checker tool on your VPS to highlight any potential problems you may encounter during the transition. You can view more information about the checker tool here: http://kb.parallels.com/en/9436 Plesk Panel License is now also available as a hosting suite to include the popular new SiteBuilder application and Customer & Business Manager billing functions. Find our more about Plesk Panel 10 and try the demo here: http://www.net24.co.nz/vps_plesk_panel.php Fri, 20 May 2011 16:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#20052011 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 database hosting plans are now available.All new Microsoft SQL Databases provisioned will be running under SQL Server 2008 R2. It is also possible for existing customers running databases on SQL Server 2005 to migrate to 2008 if required. Please contact support if you wish to arrange this. View our Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Database hosting plans here: http://www.net24.co.nz/sql.htm Read more about Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 here: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/default.aspx Fri, 20 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#12052011 We're pleased to announce that Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 3 Framework support is now available on our shared Windows hosting plans. ASP.NET MVC 3 builds on MVC 1 and 2 which is already supported. ASP.NET MVC 3 is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using well-established design patters and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. Read more about ASP.NET MVC 3 at http://www.asp.net/mvc/mvc3 Thu, 12 May 2011 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#02032011 Mains power to our building has been restored since 1pm Saturday and all systems are operational. There has been no major damage to our facility. Although we are on the fringe of the CBD cordon, our office is fully staffed and it is business as usual. We'd like to thank everyone for the many messages of support that we have received over the past week. Your kind words of support have been very much appreciated by our staff, who continue to endure difficult personal circumstances. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been affected by the earthquake. Thu, 4 November 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#04112010 We're pleased to announce that as from 1st November we have reduced the standard pricing for all of our Linux VPS plans by 50% - All Linux VPS plans are now half price, plus we've upgraded the memory on the Lite plan to 512MB. Thu, 11 November 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#06092010 As you will be aware, Christchurch experienced a 7.1 earthquake during the early hours of Saturday morning. We would like to advise that we sustained no damage to our data centre infrastructure and while we ran on generator power for approximately 5 hours, we were fully operational and experienced no downtime. All systems have been thoroughly checked and no faults have been found. Thank you to everyone who have sent emails of support, our team really appreciates your concern. Our support also goes out to our fellow Cantabrians during this difficult period and today we have pledged $1000 to the Mayoral fund. If you would like to help with relief and welfare there are a number of collections currently operating. Stuff.co.nz has more information here: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4099855/Canterbury-quake-How-you-can-help Mon, 6 September 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#11062010 Our Windows web hosting plans have been upgraded to now support ASP.NET 4 and MVC 2. ASP.NET 4 and MVC 2 were recently release out of Beta by Microsoft. ASP.NET 4 and MVC 2 include lots of new features and improvements that enable you to easily build, deploy and manage web site applications. Fri, 11 June 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#17032010 Join the Microsoft WebsiteSpark program and get three years of free Microsoft server software for use on Net24 VPS, Dedicated or Cloud Servers. Tue, 2 March 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#02032010 We are pleased to announce that from 1st March 2010, all VPS plans have been upgraded with additional resources. Tue, 2 March 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#09022010 Our new Dell Performance range of dedicated servers offer high performance and dependability at entry level prices with no fixed term contract! All servers are racked and ready to deploy in our state-of-the-art data centre and feature Quad-Core CPUs, RAID 1 Disks, free NZ traffic, 25GB of international traffic and 100GB of on-site NAS storage. Tue, 9 February 2010 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#23122009 We have recently completed the deployment of our VMware vSphere Cloud Infrastructure which means we now offer VMware powered High-Availability Virtual Machines backed by a 99.98% Service Level Agreement. Some of the features of our vSphere Cloud include... Wed, 23 December 2009 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#04112009 We are pleased to announce the availability of our Windows Server 2008 Virtual Server plans. VPS plans are now available with either a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 configuration. Windows Server 2008 adds support for IIS7 which provides a security-enhanced, easy to manage platform for developing and hosting web applications and services, along with a number of other OS security and usability enhancements. Existing customers of our Windows 2003 VPS plans can take advantage of our free upgrade offer. Net24 will provision a new Windows Server 2008 VPS for a free two week period to allow data to be migrated from one VPS to another. Please contact Customer Service to arrange an upgrade, or view our Windows VPS plans for more information. Wed, 4 November 2009 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#09092009 Today we celebrate a milestone, 10 years in business. Net24 was officially incorporated on the 9th of September (9), 1999 (The date is purely coincidental!). We've come a long way since our early days of operating from a spare room, with just two servers and less than 50 customers. Today we have 10 staff, manage over 50,000 domain names for 15,000 customers and operate more than 150 servers in our new privately owned data centre. Quite an achievement that has only been possible with loyal support from our customers. Our sincere thanks to everyone who has supported us along the way and we look forward to serving you for the next 10 years and beyond. Wed, 9 September 2009 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#19082009 We're pleased to announce that as from the 1st of September, our existing web hosting plans will be upgraded to include much more disk space. Some plans have been increased by a massive 400%, so why not take advantage of the extra space and enhance your web site with video and audio, or install additional applications such as blogs and forums. Wed, 19 August 2009 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#30032009 We are pleased to announce the availability of our Dedicated Server offering... Mon, 30 March 2009 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#19112008 A media release has been issued by Tandberg Data profiling our implementation of Tandberg's Data StorageLibrary T40+ for backing up more than 3.2TB of customer data to offsite tape backup. Wed, 19 November 2008 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#13112008 We are pleased to advise that we have completed implementation of a new web statistics package called SmarterStats. Smarterstats replaces Urchin, the existing Web Analytics software. Thu, 13 November 2008 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#31072008 Thanks to Net24 ’s special relationship with Google, all new and existing customers can now try out targeted online advertising at no risk with a free $50 Google Adwords advertising credit. Thu, 31 July 2008 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#27052008 Microsoft has just released Expression Web 2. It’s a standards-based design tool that allows web designers to create, develop, and maintain exceptional sites with less time and effort. Tue, 27 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#22052008 We are pleased to announce that after completing a recent upgrade our ColdFusion hosting plans have been upgraded from ColdFusion MX 7 to ColdFusion 8. Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#28022008 As part of the recent upgrades to the Online Backup Service version 5.2.4 of the Online Backup Manager (OBM) has been released. This release includes feature enhancements and bug fixes. Thu, 28 February 2008 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#11122007 Windows hosting plans have been upgraded to support ISAPI_Rewrite 3. Fri, 21 December 2007 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#11122007 The .NET Framework 3.5 is now available for Windows hosting plans. Tue, 11 December 2007 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#02122007 We have recently brought another VPS hardware node online to allows us to offer Windows 32bit VPS. Mon, 3 December 2007 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#02112007 We have just received a new supply of our branded USB flash drives. Fri, 2 November 2007 12:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#25092007 The .NET Framework 3.0 is now available for Windows hosting plans. Tue, 25 September 2007 17:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#19092007 We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of the following new Linux Distributions for VPS servers Wed, 19 September 2007 17:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#13082007 Net24 is pleased to announce the launch of the Virtual Private Server (VPS) service. Mon, 13 August 2007 17:00:00 GMT(+12:00) http://www.net24.co.nz/news.htm#11052007 Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 3.0 has been installed on all Windows servers. Fri, 11 May 2007 17:00:00 GMT(+12:00)