Anchor News

27/05/08 - Anchor launches Carbon Neutral web hosting

Today Anchor has launched upgrade options for all web hosting, dedicated servers and co-location services to enable them to be made carbon neutral. More information.

08/02/08 - Anchor launches Australian Zope & Plone web hosting

Our already comprehensive shared hosting offering has today been expanded to included full support for the increasingly poplular Plone CMS running on Zope. The hosting solution includes and independent per account deployment giving you full control and security.

01/06/06 - Anchor launches Ruby on Rails web hosting

We're please to announce that we're one of the first Australian hosting providers to offer full support of Ruby on Rails applications. The hosting solutions includes Lighttpd and Mongrel webservers with full shell access and your choice of either PostgreSQL or MySQL database.

More information on Ruby on Rails hosting.

18/11/05 - New hosting server is online!

Our new, anxiously awaited, hosting server is now online and available to all clients! All new hosting accounts will automatically be placed on this server. In additional to powerful new hardware we can now offer MySQL 4.1, PostgreSQL 7.4.8, Perl 5.8.5 and PHP 4.3.9.

01/04/04 - Anchor offers better value hosting

The storage space and monthly data transfer quotas have been substantially increased across our range of hosting services.

18/2/2004 - Shipyard opens

Seeking an outlet for the immense quantity of distasteful puns Anchor's development and admin team come up with on a day-to-day basis, we've just launched Shipyard: the place to go for anyone involved in web development. We've been working hard to get some unique, quality content up there to help you get more out of the web. Come back often, we're committed to making Shipyard the only place you need to go for help with the web.

27/10/2003 - New Anchor website launched

Welcome to the new Anchor website. After many months of hard work the new website brings with it a range of new services and easy to use customer interfaces. The online support area has undergone a major overhaul with a wealth of new information. Do you like it? Do you hate it? Let us know... contact us.

27/10/2003 - Freedom servers: Cheap dedicated machines a first in Australia

Anchor has today launched a new range of dedicated/managed Linux servers at an increadibly low price. Starting from just $175/month you get you own server housed and managed locally in Sydney. Learn more about Anchor freedom servers.

20/09/03 - Search Engine secrets

A new book published by Peter Thorpe a Sydney based web developer and marketing guru teaches you everything you need to know about search engines. The book gives you the tips, hints, advice and tools to get your website listed at the top of the search results.

Buy it online at: http://www.searchenginesecrets.com.au/.

07/06/03 - Anchor blocks SPAM for free

We can't promise to stop you from getting SPAM but we have put in place a number of measures to substantially reduce that amount of SPAM that you receive. Currently around 50% of all inbound mail is detected as SPAM and rejected.

03/10/2002 - Anchor becomes an accredited domain registrar

Anchor is now one of few Australian companies to be a fully accredited .au domain registrar. Anchor Systems can now provide instant registration and renewal of all .com.au, .net.au, .id.au, .org.au and .asn.au domain names.

12/08/2002 - Email Anti-virus scanning

Automatic scanning of all email is now available on all hosting accounts and co-location services starting from just $15/month.

07/05/2002 - eCommerce meets web hosting

The popular open source e-commerce package osCommerce is now available with all web hosting accounts. Anchor will install and configure osCommerce in your account to get you selling online!

The package can be used as a stand alone module to power a shopping cart on your site, or you can manage your entire website with the package.

24/04/2002 - Non-rackmount Co-Location available

This innovative service was launched to assist new businesses get online with minimum expense in the early stages of operation whilst client revenues may be low. Non-rackmount Co-Location enjoys much of the robustness and speed of our standard co-location services.

Equipment is housed on shelving racks and priced per machine or per shelf, eliminating the need to purchase costly rack mounted server equipment.

20/12/2001 - Anchor Systems sponsors Linux Conf 2002

Linux Conf is Australia's national Linux conference being held at the University of Queensland. As an avid GNU/Linux user Anchor Systems is proud to sponsor this event.

For more details check out the website at http://conf.linux.org.au/.