A lot has been happening over here at Servers Australia, and we have some exciting news for you! We are very excited to announce that we are finalists for the Central Coast Business Awards 2013. The Central Coast Business awards are being held at the beautiful Mercure Kooindah Waters, on Friday August the 2nd. We are extremely grateful for this opportunity to showcase our business to our local Central Coast businesses and residents attending the night. We are crossing all of our fingers and toes, so if you could do the same that would be great! Stay posted to see an update on how we went! If you would like to find out more about the Central Coast Business Awards click here.  

When it comes to online web hosting directories, there are too many to count. Unfortunately there are plenty of outdated lists with useless information on them. If you look hard enough you will find some decent ones with up -to-date information and correct listings. Luckily for you, we have just been linked on a great web hosting directory, Web Hosting Search. This directory lists hosting companies from around the globe and offers reviews on the various companies. Servers Australia has even been awarded and recommended as a top rated Web Hosting Company by Web Hosting Search. Check out their site and take a look around for yourself.   Dedicated and Virtual Servers Specialists - About Us

There is no doubt that processors are getting faster. It seems each month new families of CPU’s are released that are more efficient, more powerful and are cheaper than its predecessors. In this article I will be referring to a scoring system based on a favoured website of mine, www.cpubenchmark.net. We are big fans of the new E5 CPU family, so we now include the E5 processors in the new Professional and Enterprise Dedicated Servers range. In our professional range, we start with Xeon E5-2609 2.4GHz. However if you want the big guns, keep reading on to check out the Dual Xeon E5-2687 3.1GHz CPU’s. Your everyday computer or laptop you buy would receive a performance score of about 3000 to 4000. This represents the score range of an Intel i5 2540M (3862 score to be exact). Now this is a good enough score to do everyday tasks on a PC, plus a little bit extra. However, a dedicated server needs more power than that. Intel’s new E5 processors are powerful, very powerful. So powerful in fact, in a dedicated server running only one of these processors it would be able to outperform many multi-cpu servers. To make things clear, a ‘Quad AMD Opteron 6272’ gets a score of 32 450. Don’t get me wrong, that is an extremely powerful system combining four ‘16 core’ processors (64 cores in total), however, a Dual CPU Xeon E5-2687W (16 cores) receives a score of 33 357. That’s 907 points MORE with 48….

Anthony Spruce started working for Severs Australia very recently, joining our team on the 5th of March 2012. Anthony is an integral part of our Support Team, positioned as our Technical Support ‘Guru’. Anthony previously ran his own business for five years in the Hunter Region of NSW, and has worked at AussieHQ as an L1/L2 Support Person. He has also attained a Certificate IV in Networking and Systems Administration, and like many IT Gurus, Anthony has many years of self-taught, IT know-how which contributes to his professional toolkit. We sat down and had a little chat with him recently. Hey Anthony, how are you? Yeah I’m going great thanks. So you’re pretty new here then, how are you liking working with Servers Australia so far? I enjoying playing with all the technology, provisioning new servers, and generally improving on my knowledge in systems and networks. So this business you ran for 5 years, what did you do? I ran a company for Computer Repairs, Upgrades, we performed 3rd party Server Management and got into PHP Development too. How did you get involved with Servers Australia? I have known Jared for a fair few years after working within the industry since I was 18, after spending time working on my own, I decided to move back into the industry, and contacted Servers Australia about a support job, and here I am. What do you enjoy most about your job? Playing with all the brand-new technology! Well I’ll let you get….

Everybody loves cake, right? It was recently Jared’s birthday (our MD), and following the unwritten law of ‘always celebrating a birthday’, we threw him a staff party in our conference room with an amazing cake! After scrounging around for some old computer hardware lying around the office we built a Dedi-cake-ed Server! (talk about bad puns there… lol!). We fitted the cake with old Xeon CPUs, laptop RAM, a USB stick and more. It was a big success with everyone racing to take a component. We made sure to wash the parts in the dishwasher first to ensure the cake was OK to eat, then we all got suck in! We think this was a suitable way to celebrate the Boss’ birthday. Three cheers for Jared!

We are excited to announce our new special offers at Servers Australia for March 2012. Mad as a March hare? Yes we are! We are offering DOUBLE RAM & DOUBLE DATA on all our complete Starter Dedicated Servers Series for the whole of March! There are no limits of purchases per customer either, however this is not available as an upgrade option. See our

If you can benefit from free web hosting, a free server, savings on data storage or would like to get your hands on a free iPad 2, Servers Australia could be your best friend this Christmas! Servers Australia are rewarding our Facebook friends by giving away free web hosting to friends with an ABN. Our free web hosting includes 500MB Disk Space, 5 GB Data Transfer, cPanel Control Panel and more. Visit Servers Australia Facebook page to sign up for your free web hosting today. It’s no secret that successful businesses and enterprises perform best with fast, secure and reliable servers. Add to your current server network or get your very first server for free and enter the draw to win a dedicated server here. If you’re looking to expand your business and need more data space, we’re cutting your costs. Servers Australia are dismissing the setup fee for all new Equinix SYD3 Colocation customers until 20/12/12. You’ve one more week to jump on this special offer, saving you up to $199. See our website for more information. We are giving away iPad 2 tablets! Servers Australia are giving away, one-for-one iPad 2′s with every E3-1245 starter series server or higher on a 24 month contract. That means if you buy 10 servers you get 10 iPad 2′s! See our servers series here. Unlike Santa, we’re giving away these deals whether you’ve been naughty or nice -but we hope it’s the latter!

We are offering double bandwidth and double ram to new customer purchases of the ‘Starter Series’ of our Dedicated Servers range. With speed and reliability, our ‘Starter Series’ servers are top choice for entry-level mail server, application server, database or web servers. See Servers Australia website for complete details on our ‘Starter Series’. Also, as part of our Equinix SYD3 Launch Promotion, we are giving away 50GB free data per 1RU, saving up to $55.00 per RU. Backed by state-of-the-art security, network connectivity and redundant power, Equinix is the ideal location for your colocated equipment. See Servers Australia website for details on our ‘Equinix Colocation’. (Available to new colocation customers only.) These special offers expire on the 10th November, so be quick to take advantage of these deals. Call us on 02 72015063 or email [email protected].

It’s been a busy month at Servers Australia. Following the launch of Equinix Inc. ‘SY3’ in Sydney last week, we are now the proud owners of 12 x 32 Amp racks and are offering our new SY3 space from today onwards! Contact us for more information. This month we are also pleased to announce our upgraded Intel starter series now with Xeon processes! These processors are impressively fast allowing for greater entry-level mail servers, application servers, databases or web servers! To see more go to our website. Adding to these fab announcements we also have a special offer. We are giving away a ‘free.com.au’ domain name for all new Business Web Hosting accounts! Our Award winning Business Web Hosting includes: - Unlimited FTP Accounts - Unlimited E-mail Accounts - Phone Support -Daily account backups All this and more for only $19.95 per month. Call us 02 72015063 or email [email protected]. Offer ends 31st August.

We are pleased to announce a new updated server range for our Starter Series. Based off your feedback we have increased our base ram and included three different options for storage including RAID 1, SSD and 1TB of Storage so now you can tailor your server even more for no extra charge! And to help promote these new servers we are going to include some great limited time upgrades of DOUBLE RAM, and TRIPLE TRAFFIC. Also be sure to keep an eye out on our blog and facebook as we will shortly be announcing new revised plans for our Professional and Enterprise series. Last but not least we have been getting a lot of requests from people asking if we offer completely custom server builds. Well yes, we do and always have but to make it easier for you to request quotes we have added a new custom quote form to our website, which is in addition to our server configurator. You can visit the page by clicking here.