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.

make sure to use the new control panel url:
https://serversaurus.com:2083/

(using https ensures your password is never visible on the internet)

cheers,
marty.

as part of the move, we have changed the way you connect to webmail. it now automatically redirects you to a secure connection to the server. if you are accessing webmail via your control panel or a bookmark, you may get a warning saying that the name of the certificate (serversaurus.com) doesn’t match the site you are connecting to (yourdomain.com). to avoid this message, just use the following url to access your webmail:

https://serversaurus.com:2096/

cheers,
marty.

everything is set for the server migration tomorrow night. some folks have reported that our original blog post that announced the move was caught by gmail spam filters, so if you didn’t see the message and don’t have time to update your nameservers, just let us know and we can delay moving your site.

check in at the blog for updates.

cheers,
marty.

unfortunately, we have been experiencing a number of difficulties with
our current service provider, and as a result, have not delivered that promise.
after discussions with them to try to improve the situation, we have
decided that we need to change to a new service provider.

after much research, we have decided on a new provider and have set up
a server with them and tested it. the response time of the server and quality
of the server is fantastic, and so is the responsiveness of the new provider,
which was one of our main concerns.

to ensure minimum disruption to our customers, we are scheduling the
change to the new server to occur over the weekend of the 7th and 8th
april, 2007. your account will be moved to the new server between
20:00 and 23:00 (7pm and 11pm) on saturday the 7th april (aest, gmt +10).

if you have your internet domain registered with us, you don’t need to
do anything. if you are managing your own domain, you’ll need to update
the nameservers to:

ns1.serversaurus.com and
ns2.serversaurus.com

please make this change on saturday night or as early as you can on sunday
morning.

the change may take up to 24 hours to propagate through the dns system,
so please be patient. usually you can make the change immediate by simply
rebooting your computer.

please try to avoid updating your website on sunday 8th april, as your
computer or isp may still have dns records pointing to the old server, and
you may end up having to make the change twice.

your new control panel address is:
https://serversaurus.com:2083/

if you should need to get to your old control panel for any reason, you
will be able to reach it at:
https://old.serversaurus.com:2083/

we’ll post updates as the move progresses.

also please note, we span europe and australia, and are available for
24 hour support, so feel free to email us at any time.

if this is an inconvenient time for us to move your website, let us know
and we will arrange a different changeover time for your account.

kind regards,
the serversaurs.