our prices may be stuck in the past, but we like to communicate in the present.
we’ve set up a twitter account, so follow us to get any updates - maybe once every million years or so…
http://twitter.com/serversaurus
cheers,
the serversaurs.
things were not quite ready, so the move last thursday did not happen. so take 2 will happen this friday, the 26th december.
for sure this time…
regards,
the serversaurs
as the majority of our customers are australian based, we have decided to move our server infrastructure to melbourne. this change will greatly improve the speed of your site within the continent, while having little or no impact on international access. the move will be happening this thursday evening, the 18th of december. we hope it will be a seamless transfer, however if you have something online that is critical, we can move your account individually at a later and more suitable date - please tell us as soon as possible. we will email again when the transfer is complete.
cheers, the serversaurs
while we do our very best to ensure your data is safe - it can always be safer. as a new addition to our list of services, we are now offering weekly offsite backups, at our usual prehistoric yearly prices:
if you’d like to add this to your account, please contact us here.
cheers,
the serversaurs
the time has come again to update our carbon offsetting program, and we are pleased to let you all know we’re still very committed to keeping our service environmentally friendly. this year 70 trees have been planted, offsetting the 18.62 tons of carbon that is released into the atmosphere, from the energy required to power the serversaurus servers. our pledge of donating 1% of our annual profit to 1% for the planet is still in action too.
we’re also very happy to announce that a new server is being added to the serversaurus family, to take some of the load of the existing infrastructure. this change will not affect any users with downtime.
cheers,
the serversaurs
last november we announced a new plan - the nanosaurus - and that we were giving away an ipod nano to celebrate.
the winner of the ipod nano (who wishes to remain anonymous) told us that they already have two ipods and would prefer if we gave it to another customer!
so we’re extending the qualifying period to win the ipod nano until the end of january 2008.
renew your existing plan or sign up for a new one and you’ll go into the draw to win the nano!
see the original announcement for all the details.
we’ve got bad news, good news and great news.
the bad news is that we have to raise the price of our prehistoric plans from the 1st january 2008. but not by a lot.
the good news is that we’re introducing a new plan that will cover the needs of most minisaurus customers for the same price.
the great news is that everyone that signs up for a new plan, or renews their existing plan, by the 31st of december, goes into the draw to win an ipod nano. and if you refer a friend and they sign up, let us know and you’ll both get an extra entry in the draw.
in line with our prehistoric philosophy, it’s not the latest ipod, but a previous model, brand new with a full 12 month worldwide warranty. beautiful glossy black cover, colour display, 1gb of storage (240 songs), 14hr rechargeable battery, only 0.7cm thin! see a photo.
from the 1st of january 2008, our plans will be:
nanosaurus: 50mb space, 0.5gb data/month, $25 per year.
minisaurus: 100mb space, 1gb data/month, $35 per year.
midisaurus: 500mb space, 5gb data/month, $95 per year.
megasaurus: 1000mb space, 10gb data/month, $145 per year.
maxisaurus: 2500mb space, 25gb data/month, $245 per year.
hi wonderful customers!
today we have upgraded serversaurus to version 11 of cpanel, the software that runs the control panel of your website.
what does this mean for you? it means a pretty new control panel interface with lots of purty new icons! but seriously, even though aesthetics are important, there are quite a few new features. next time you log in to your control panel, you will see that the interface is hugely improved over the clunky old one, making managing your account much easier. there are also lots of new video tutorials to help you with just about anything you could want to do.
of course, if anything is not behaving as it should, don’t hesitate to contact us.
marty and nick.
the serversaurs.
p.s. for those who don’t know, nick will soon be heading out from the netherlands to sail across the bay of biscay, off the coast of france and spain, on his amazing single-handed sailing voyage back to oz. track his progress on bigoceans.com, and give him some support (he’ll take anything from moral support to monetary support, and needs plenty of both).
a customer has pointed out that our php installation is totally prehistoric (version 4.4.7).
we could have had a conversation about how appropriate that is for a hosting service like ours…
but instead, we’ve upgraded to version 5.2.3.
when you think prehistoric, think: more velociraptor, less stegosaurus.
but let us know if you have any strange issues with your website. if your website was strange before the upgrade, that’s fine, we really don’t mind how strange you decide to make your website. but if you think that the strangeness might be related to this upgrade, we’d like to know.
cheers,
marty.
we updated our ftp server software earlier this week as part of routine maintenance. unfortunately, we weren’t aware of one particular “feature” in the update. instead of just using your username to log in via ftp, you need to use username@your.domain.name.
sorry about that, folks, but we only just became aware of it ourselves.
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