DECEMBER 2010 - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

We would like to wish all our clients a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We also thank you all for your continued support of our services.

2011 will be a milestone year for uour parent company, as we will celebrate our 10th year in business. In 2011 we are planning many improvements to the services we offer, so please check our website regularly to see the changes, or signup to our twitter page at www.twitter.com/loungenetwork

2010 has been a hard year for many New Zealanders. We have had the Canterbury Earthquake and the Pike River mining tragedy, both which will have long lasting effects on the whole country. As well as this, we have had a recession, which has had a major affect on many people and businesses in New Zealand. Here's hoping that 2011 will be filled with good news.

During the Christmas break, our main office will be closed between 23rd December till the 10th January, and there will be limited email support during this time. However, as usual the server technicians at the datacentres will continue to look after the servers 24/7 365 days of the year, and will fix any issues should they occur. We do also have an emergency support form on our website, which can be accessed from the contact page.

July 2007 - CPanel Upgraded to Version 11... ...Domain Name Price Drops

We have Fantastic and Exciting News for July...

Firstly, the much anticipated CPanel 11 upgrade has now been installed on the CPanel servers. It offers many improvements over CPanel 10, mostly in the backend of the software. With this upgrade also comes an updated Control Panel interface called CPanel X3. We are one of the first providers in NZ to be able to offer this new interface. The upgrade to CPanel 11 is a required part of our continual upgrading of software to keep the servers current and as secure as possible. For more information on the CPanel Upgrade, please click here.

Secondly, we have reduced the prices of the Domain Registration of .CO.UK, .US, and .TV domain names. Visit http://www.domains.loungenetwork.co.nz/ to register one today.

April 2007 - New iHost Website Launched

Welcome to the all new iHost website. Through iHost we offer New Zealands best value hosting services, in both Linux and Windows flavors. Please feel free to browse through our new website.

March 2007 - Step by Step instructions added for our Corporate Plan

We have added new illustrated step by step instructions into our Knowledge base, for users of our Corporate & Business Plans. These are additional to the instructions that can be found inside the control panel. These new instructions can be found by clicking here.

Our Hosting and Domain Knowledge base now has answers to hundreds of frequently asked questions, and covers most questions we are asked. View our knowledge base by clicking here.

Users on our CPanel hosting plans already have video tutorials, which can be viewed by clicking here.

February 2007 - IHUG websites hacked

It has been reported in the NZ media, that nearly 600 websites, mainly hosted by iHug, have been hacked and defaced. iHug is a web host provider that is owned by Vodafone New Zealand. The websites were hosted with ISP Quik, which iHug purchased last year.
This issue has not affected any websites that are hosted by us on our Cluster of servers. We always make sure that the servers we use are kept up to date with the latest server software, to maintain server security to a very high level. If you are a Quik or iHug customer, and are interested in shifting your website to our network, please contact us.

This is also a timely reminder for everyone that may be running popular cms, bulletin board or other commonly used php/cgi scripts on their websites, to make sure that they are up to date with the latest security patches. If you are unsure, please contact your website developer. Running unsecured or old scripts on your website can open up your website to hackers.

December 2006 - Seasons Greetings

We'd like to wish all our clients a Merry Christmas and Prosperous New Year for 2007. Thank you for your continued support throughout the year, we re ally appreciate it, and we look forward to exciting new developments in the coming year.

October 2006 - .NZ Domain Registrations hit Quarter of a Million.

InternetNZ through the Office of the Domain Name Commissioner has recently announced that the number of domain name registrations of under the .nz top level domain reached 250,000 in October.

It was in September 2005 that registrations reached 200,000, having previously reached 150,000 in April 2004.

August 2006 - PHP5 now available on all hosting plans!

We are very happy to report that our upstream providers have installed PHP5 on the Concorde cPanel server alongside PHP4! This means you can use BOTH versions of php on your website. This is really a great thing to have so you can test things out and make sure that when the servers eventually move to php5, your site(s) are fully compliant.

All you need to do to take advantage of PHP5 is to add the following two lines to an .htaccess file to force .php files be handled by php5.

code:
AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php

Clients on our Corporate Web Plan already have access to PHP5 and have had access since last year. Please note that as PHP5 is third party software, and we don't provide any form of support for it.

July 2006 - You can now register CO.UK , .US , & .TV domain names

As part of the continual improvements to the services we offer, we now provide domain registration of .CO.UK , .US , and .TV domain names. Register Yours Today...
.TV domain names can currently only be registered through our Domain Manager.

For clients on our Corporate or Business Class hosting plans, we have also integrated the Domain Manager into the Web Hosting Control Panel. This means clients only have to use the one control panel for managing both their Domain Name and Website hosting.
All other clients can continue to use our Domain Manager for the management of their domain names.

June 2006 - New Webmail and Statistics applications

For users of our Corporate and Business Plans, we are pleased to announce that we are upgrading the statistics reporting systems.This application is now ready for general usage. Details regarding these new service offerings are as follows.

Statistics Reporting

We have created a new web statistics application, that enables you to view advanced statistics reporting (AWstats) for all of your websites (both windows and linux hosted websites). On the linux platform we have also included webalizer as an alternative statistics package.The application also enables you to view raw web server access logs, error logs and optionally download them to your pc.

The system is live at present and can be viewed by using a temporary URL http://stats.mydns.net.nz/your_domain_name.co.nz/ (Please replace the your_domain_name.co.nz with your actual domain name) or by adding an A record for 'stats' pointing to 202.89.43.20 to your domain templates, you could use http://stats.your_domain_name.co.nz .We will be adding the 'stats' A record to our default domain template on the 1st June 2006.

We will discontinue processing the existing webalizer statistics located at http://your_domain_name.co.nz/stats or /statistics on the 1st June 2006 also. Historical statistics files have already been transferred over to the new system.

We hope that you find the new statistics reporting system of benefit to you.

March 2006 - WebSite Builder Released for FREE

We have now added RVSiteBuilder to most of our cPanel™ hosting plans, and we are providing this to our clients who use cPanel™, for FREE. RVSiteBuilder is a quick and simple way to setup a professional looking website with ease, using just your web browser. Other web hosting providers will charge you for using this type of software, however we now provide it for FREE to most of our cPanel users. Click here for more info»

March 2006 - New Control Panel released

For our clients who use our Corporate Web Plan, the control panel has now been updated and has more features. It now also allows you to register and renew you domain names from directly within the hosting control panel.

January 2006 - cPanel Tutorials Released

For our clients who use the cPanel Control Panel, we have now released a selection of Animated Flash Tutorials. Click here to view them»

January 2006 - MSSQL Server 2000 functionality added to Business Class Plan

SQL Server 2000 is now available to users on our Business Class Windows Plan. An additional fee is required for the use of this service.

October 2005 - PHP 5 has been added to Corporate Plan

PHP 5 is now available to users on our Corporate Web Plan. Corporate Web Plan users now have the choice between either PHP 4 or PHP 5.

October 2005 - .NZ Domain Registrations surpass 200,000

The number of domain names listed on the .nz Register has now reached 200,000. In March 1994 the figure stood at just 272 domains.

May 2005 - cPanel & Fantastico Upgrade

cPanel™ has now been updated to version 10.2. Fantastico has also been upgraded and includes new software.

May 2005 - We have launched our New Domain Manager

The New Domain Manager will allow our clients to manage their domain names in realtime. This tool allows you to update, renew, transfer & even register domain names.