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February 10, 2017

WordPress Security Breach- Hackers targeting REST-API Vulnerability

A short but important notice for any of our clients who are managing their site with WordPress. A brief history for those who are not aware of the recent security breaches; On the 26th of January WordPress Version 4.7.2 was released. The update included security patches which at the time of the release the importance of these updates were not...

Operations

August 2, 2016

Serversaurus makes first acquisition

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 2nd, 2016 Melbourne, Victoria, 2nd August, 2016 – Serversaurus, a Melbourne-based green cloud computing company, has purchased the customers and infrastructure of Brisbane based cloud hosting company Tract.com. Serversaurus co-founder Martin Gleeson said he was proud to be making the company’s first acquisition since its inception in 2005: The purchase of the Tract.com customer base and...

Conscious business/Operations/Tech

April 14, 2016

Performance hosting plans now powered by SSDs

After a recent upgrade, we’ve moved our already super fast Performance hosting plans onto SSD backed storage. Our enterprise grade SSD array is ultra quick through configuration in the fastest and safest RAID10 setup possible. Our SSD storage is locally connected across a high speed backplane, providing arguably one of the fastest methods of hosting storage, allowing ultra quick database...

Operations/Tech

February 1, 2016

The end of Personal Hosting

Serversaurus started in 2005 with very simple, cheap, annual hosting – ‘web hosting at prehistoric prices’ was our motto. Over the years we’ve continued to maintain our low cost Personal hosting plans, even though as a business we’ve moved towards specialising in business hosting and highly customised multi-server environments for large websites and web applications. At this stage we have...

Operations

January 25, 2016

Free SSL with Let’s Encrypt

We’re proud to have helped support the development of Let’s Encrypt for cPanel and now offer free SSL certificates across most of our cPanel based web hosting services. Installation of SSL certificates with Let’s Encrypt is tightly integrated with cPanel for simple one click installation and management. Certificate management and installation is extremely simple – please follow the official documentation...

Operations/Privacy/Tech

June 10, 2015

Supervising R1Soft with WHM/cPanel

At Serversaurus, we use R1Soft’s Continuous Data Protection (CPD) product to take 4x daily incremental backups, which allows our cPanel business clients to restore files from any point in time directly from cPanel. It has a low footprint (to the point that sub-hourly backups are viable), is disk-space efficient and affordable. Unfortunately, the CDP agent can occasionally crash, and won’t...