News
What's changing on our network
Infrastructure upgrades, new products and scheduled maintenance — announced here and in the client area.
Announcements
Latest updates
12 August 2026
We've upgraded our entire Australian fleet to NVMe
Every shared and reseller server now runs enterprise NVMe storage — with measured load-time improvements of up to 3x.
2 June 2026
New Melbourne availability zone now live
A second Australian region for VPS and cloud customers, with private networking between zones.
19 May 2026
Scheduled network maintenance — September
Core switch firmware upgrades in Sydney, with expected impact of under 60 seconds per rack.
Also worth reading
From the blog
Domains
A practical guide to .au direct registration
What the shorter .au namespace means for Australian businesses, and whether you should register the match to your .com.au.
Tutorials
Speeding up WooCommerce on shared hosting
Seven changes that consistently cut page load times on Australian stores, from object caching to image formats.
SPF, DKIM and DMARC explained for small business
Why your invoices land in spam, and the three DNS records that fix it.
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Service notifications and maintenance windows are also published in the client area announcements.
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