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.

for sure this time…

regards,
the serversaurs

cheers, the serversaurs

• nanosaurus: weekly backups $10/year
• minisaurus: weekly backups $15/year
• midisaurus: weekly backups $30/year
• megasaurus: weekly backups $50/year
• maxisaurus: weekly backups $90/year

if you’d like to add this to your account, please contact us here.

cheers,
the serversaurs

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

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.

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.

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).

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.

sorry about that, folks, but we only just became aware of it ourselves.