In
our 8th year of providing Professional Web Hosting to New
Zealanders!
We began our life in 1998, when as a small group of Victoria University
Students, we began to offer website design and hosting for family and friends.
This was at a stage when the Internet in New Zealand was still in its infancy.
In 2001 we turned this small hobby business, into a professional company, and
branched out into concentrating on website hosting. Since then we haven't looked
back,
and our company continues to grow steadily.
We are now in our 8th year of operation providing professional level hosting,
which is a very long time in the New Zealand Internet market. We concentrate
solely
on providing affordable, high quality, and sustainable website hosting, for the
New
Zealand market. Unlike most NZ webhosts, we cater solely to the New Zealand market,
and we host website's for individuals, organisations, and businesses from all
over
New
Zealand.
The
website's we host vary in size, from single static one page sites, to complex
database driven sites, consisting of thousands of web pages.
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100% New Zealand Owned Business
Lounge Network
is proud to be a 100% New Zealand owned business, and are
based in Wellington, New Zealand.
Servers located in World Class Data Centres
The website hosting servers
we use, are all high spec machines, and are all personally
monitored
24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by professional datacentre
technicians. We use professional and secure world class
data centres in both New Zealand and the United States
of America. Learn
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Real New Zealand Based Customer Support
The customer support we provide to our clients is real New Zealand based support. This means that if you email us, you will get a reply from a real person, based in New Zealand. This also means that you are communicating with someone in your own time zone. We handle all communication with professionalism, and treat all of our clients with the respect they deserve. We aim to get any issue resolved as quickly as possible, and in the most efficient way as possible.
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There are some NZ hosting providers, that appear to be NZ owned and based in NZ, but actually operate their business and support from outside NZ for cost reasons. Some are based as far away as India, Malaysia, China and even the United Kingdom. Some also contract out to customer service to offshore online support centre's to save money, so you maybe dealing with someone who is not directly employed by the company that you are purchasing the hosting service from, which can mean communication problems and can be very frustrating and time consuming for the client.
Long Term Sustainable Pricing
The web hosting market in New Zealand is very competitive one,
and over the years, we have seen many
hosting companies come and go. Most of these hosting companies
fail, due to them not being able to offer a long term sustainable
pricing
structure.
As a guide, if the web hosting plans look to good to be true,
they usually are. We are proud to be in
our 8th year of operation, and this due to us being able to
offer our website hosting at both an affordable and sustainable
price.
 Hosting Features Galore
One of the keys to our success, and what makes us different from other
NZ
web hosting companies, are our affordable large sized web hosting plans, and
the
wealth of features in the control panel,
that allow clients to self manage their own website hosting and email with ease.
Control Panels are included with most hosting plans. Many web hosts don't even
come close to offering the features that we offer with the comprehensive control
panels we offer. We also provide excellent service and support to our clients,
and we believe our hosting and domain registration prices are just about the
best value you will find anywhere in New Zealand!
Making things as simple as possible
We realise
that setting up a website by yourself is often a confusing
experience, however we try to
make things
as easy as
possible for you. For example, we are one of the only Web Hosting
companies that give you the option of having us personally
switch over your Domains DNS settings for you with your existing
domain provider, so they are configured
to our servers. This takes away all the hassle of our clients
needing to modify these themselves, which can be rather confusing
and time consuming to the beginner.
Our Hosting Networks:
Lounge Network
is a collection of servers and server networks,
based in Professional Datacentres in both New Zealand and the USA. All data centres are World Class
facilities, with secure and climate controlled
environments. The server networks are
monitored
by the data centre technicians 24 x 7, 365 days a year. We have been providing hosting since 2001, and we provide web hosting in
both the Linux
and Windows server environments.
With our Business Class Hosting Plan, we are able to offer Unmetered Diskspace and Traffic for your website, for the unbelievably low price of just $44.44 + GST per month. Click here for more info»
All server networks we use, utilise some of the most up to date server technologies available in the world. These servers are suitable for most types and sizes of websites, from high traffic database driven and e-commerce websites, through to simple one page brochure sites. There are multiple levels of security required to access the premises, and the servers are connected to a full UPS system with backup generators. Below are details of the two main datacentres that we use.
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| New Zealand Located Website Hosting hosted at the Albany Datacentre in Auckland |
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Our Business Class Hosting Plan is hosted on a server network located at the Maxnet Datacentre in Albany, Auckland, New Zealand. This network consists of both Windows and Linux servers.
Self
Service Website Hosting System
The Hosting Control Panel
has been designed to put you in 'total control' of
your website hosting in real time. The Hosting Control Panel allows you to do the following using just
your web browser:
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Add Domain
names with pre-defined DNS templates |
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Add statistics to your
website |
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Install FrontPage support
on your websites |
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Add mailboxes and assign
email addresses |
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Create auto-response email
messages when on holiday |
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Restrict access to folders
with passwords |
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Create FTP users and assign
folders and space quotas |
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Add mySQL & PSQL databases
and manage via your Web Browser |
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Browse your folders and
set permissions and ownership |
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Manage MX, A, and C Name
records |
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Built in Knowledge Base |
Fault Tolerance
Data Centre Security & Data Back-up
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| USA Based Website Hosting |
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All our CPanel™ Based Hosting Plans plans are hosted in World-Class Datacentres, in the USA. They are all hosted on Intel Dual Xeon Servers or similar, with RAID harddrives. |
One Wilshire Datacentre - Los Angeles:
The Los Angeles datacentre facility, has multiple gigabit connections to upstream providers, to ensure solid network stability and capacity.
IP transit is from from 2 cisco 12008 GSR's which are connected via multiple gigabit fiber uplinks to the distribution switches (2 cisco 2948G-L3's). Each cabinet is prewired and connected to the main distribution cabinet so it's plug and play. Each cabinet has it's own switch, we prefer a layer 2 switch in each cabinet. All of our servers are hooked up to APC remote reboot ports in the event that they lockup for any reason.
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