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VentraIP 1 Day Webhosting Sale

VentraIP is an Australian based web host that look after their own servers and their customers.

Today only they have a 75% selected shared hosting and reseller hosting plans.

It’s time to rally the troops and help us rescue all of the stranded people who are not happy with their current web hosting providers as we go commando and launch an all-out 48-hour assault against bad service.

If you know of anyone who may be in this position (it may even be you), you can throw them a lifeline by letting them know that they do have a choice, and that they can have all of the following and more:

  • Our famous market-leading customer service
  • Access to all of the features in VIPControl which they won’t find anywhere else in the world
  • Low cost, high quality cPanel web hosting services hosted from Melbourne, Sydney or Los Angeles
  • A range of additional services such as AtMail 6 Premium Webmail, Secondary MX Hosting and more (free on all Business plans, or for a small additional fee on Economy or Reseller plans).

And if that isn’t enough to get them over, how does a MASSIVE 75% off their first invoice (on selected plans) sound?

This offer will be available only between 0:01 AEST Wednesday June 16 through to 23:59 AEST Thursday June 17.
(Extract from [VentraIP Forums ])

More information at the [VentraIP Forums ]

We have personally used VentraIP for a number of our customers and found that they provide a great service, and also have great service when things go funny.

I took the opportunity today to order another account for a new project that I will be working on in the coming months.

Have you got a favourite host? Or have you used VentraIP? Let us know in the comments section.

https://forums.ventraip.com.au/showthread.php?t=3

AV Mag Issue 11 is here

AV Issue 11 CoverOur copy of AV’s (the magazine for audiovisual professionals) Issue 11 arrived today in our letter box.
Articles of interest included:

  • Eye Opener – The Expo 2010 Shanghai Opening Ceremony.
  • Icy Reception – The Icehouse: Melborune’s coolest new venue.
  • Microsoft World – A new “Customer Briefing Centre” full of new Microsoft toys.
  • Nobo Kapture Digital Flipchart
  • & The Audio Coverage Uniformity Standard.

Check out the AV site for some PDF downloads

Also if your interested in AV check out the Integrate Expo site for the trade show in August 2010

1 of the last iPads in the store…

Following my purchase last Friday, I showed it to 1 of my clients on Tuesday who fell in love with it within 60 seconds…he loved the keyboard (although all he typed was his name), he loved the email system (all he saw was a test account that I set up and a email I sent him that said “Test from Andrew’s iPad”) he just had to have one…only problem, he is flying out this Saturday, and wants one before he goes. By the end of the day I was assigned this task: Find an iPad that I can buy before Saturday, and let me know of any accessories/apps/add-ons that I may need. So then started the search.
Again, starting at JB HiFi, they had a couple of the 64GB Wifi +3G models lefts ($1048), and were expecting a new shipment of others in the coming weeks…coming weeks! We wanted one now. I then preceded with a bunch of other “electrical” retailers such as the Good Guys and Harvey Norman to hunt down another iPad…no luck, I got the same old answer “We don’t stock those, and don’t know if we even will”.
The report back to the client went something like this:
The only place that has one left in town is JB Hifi for $1048.
Since you are flying out you will need at least a cover for them, they are about $25-$40 from JB Hifi.
All you mail/calendar/contacts will sync, just like you iPhone (The great thing about MS Exchange servers).
Apps you might want to buy are: Pages ($12.99) and Numbers ($12.99).

Later that night I received this email:

Hi Andrew

We managed to get one from JB Hi Fi walked in about 5.55pm (they close at 6) and then out of the store and on our way home 6.05pm.  We’ll have to get you to set up tomorrow so we don’t bugger it up first.

Thanks

And that was it, 60 seconds playing with mine, and 24 hours later he had one in his hand. (He also got a case and stand with it)
It just shows what a great job Apple has done at attaching an experience along with this product. Yet I’m finding more and more that each person has a different “experience” attached to it.