Time certainly seems to fly, especially when you are doing some interesting work. In this newsletter I’ll highlight a couple of new services that I am working on and some advantages of local hosting you may not be aware of.

Hosting in Australia

Did you realise that by hosting in Australia, Google will automatically include your website in their Australian search engine when they index your website?

This was highlighted to me when my wife and I were looking for renovation material. We were aware of a place in Brisbane called the Renobarn and googled it with the search narrowed to show only Australian sites - it didn't show up! Try it. Their website is hosted overseas. Think of all the potential Australian customers this business is losing!

So by hosting in Australia you are automatically optimising your website for Australian customers, supporting an Australian business and with Avanti Hosting getting great local support.

Referral Cards

We have reviewed our referral program and have made some lasting changes around how we reward people that refer business to us. You should have received a few of our new referral cards. Basically when you refer Avanti Hosting to someone, write your name on the back of the card and give it to the person you are referring. When they sign up they get their first month of web hosting for free and we will send you a small gift as a token of our appreciation of your referral.

So please do refer your Avanti Hosting to your friends, colleagues, and family.

Also, should you run out of referral cards, let us know and we’ll send you some more.

Email Plus

How would you like to be able to access and update your Outlook emails, calendar items, contacts and tasks on any PC or smart phone with software that looks like Outlook? Well that's what you get with Avanti Hosting's new Email Plus account.

Avanti Hosting have implemented a new Email Plus service using Zimbra. This Email Plus service allows you to synchronize your Outlook emails, calendar items, contacts, and tasks with your Email Plus account.

Once synchronised, your Email Plus account allows you to access all your emails, calendar items, contacts, and tasks even when you are not in front of your work computer. Email Plus does this by synchronising with your Outlook and many types of smart phones. You can even access all your data online using the Email Plus service web site and all your data is presented in way that looks just like Outlook. You’ll never be locked out of your vital information again.

If you’d like to know more about our Email Plus service or would like to try it out for free contact us.

Off-site Backup

I am sure you are backing up your data diligently. With your backup, do you use tapes, or blank DVDs? Is your backup kept off-site?

If you answered yes to either of the above questions you might want to consider an on-line off-site backup services, such as the one offered by Avanti Hosting and Time Out! Computers. With our service, the backups are stored on serves owned and operated by Avanti Hosting and the set-up and maintenance of the necessary software on your computers is performed by Time Out! Computers.

You will have easy access to your backups through a web interface and obviously through the back up software.

Call Avanti Hosting or Time Out! Computers to find out more about the on-line off-site backup service.

Perfect Marriage

A husband and wife were at a party chatting with some friends when the subject of marriage counseling came up. "Oh, we'll never need that. My husband and I have a great relationship," the wife explained. "He was a communications major in college and I majored in dramatic arts. He communicates real well and I just act like I'm listening."

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