We have chosen the new year to say goodbye to our company Brand – Koowii,  and we welcome an energetic, exciting new brand – Nerdster to lead the way into the future.

The Name Nerdster was chosen from a list of several names that would best describe our staffs attitudes and our industry.

The choice was unanimous, in some way we have all been called a nerd at some point in time and the urban dictionary puts Nerdster as a “Cool – Nerd”, a Richie Cunningham cross Fonzie type character .

We all love Happy Days and when this was presented to us as an option we just loved the idea.

From their we had our designer come up with a mascot that would represent our Cool Nerd and after just a week of designing concepts, Nerdy was born.

The excitement around the office and the fun that our new brand represents is so energetic that staff have been working back in their own time and coming to work early with ideas they have had during the previous night that they just wanted to  share with us all.  I would like to thank everybody for their hard work over the last few months putting the new site together and all the planning that went into the Brand change migrations.

We are all looking forward to what 2012 will bring Nerdster, lets hope for a prosperous 2012 for us all.

HNY 2012

- Mick O’Shea

Sometimes it’s just not possible to confine your web hosting requirements within a single package; you need something that gives you ample space to expand your wings in whatever direction you desire. In such cases you require an all-in-1 web hosting package.

What is an all-in-1 web hosting package?

As the name clearly suggests an all-in-1 web hosting package provides everything you require to launch a website and start doing your business. Now why would you go for an all-in-1 package when you can individually accomplish tasks such as registering a domain name, getting a website designed and developed according to the chosen platform, hosting it somewhere, installing and customizing applications like shopping carts and search engine optimizing your website to get targeted traffic from search engines?

You can easily carry out these tasks individually but the problem is this will require a lot of effort and expense. If you are a prudent entrepreneur you are well aware that your time is best spent on activities that are your core strengths rather than performing administrative and troubleshooting tasks. An all-in-1 package takes the worry of setting up the website off your shoulders so that you can completely focus on your business.

All-in-1 web hosting package provided by Nerdster.com.au

As is the case with all our web services the primary purpose of our all-in-1 web hosting package is making everything for you as seamless as possible so that you can be your productive best. When you are pumping all your energies into setting up and expanding your business you can rest assured that your online presence is being taken care of by one of the best teams of web developers, server administrators and search engine optimisation experts. It is like walking into a well-furnished office on the very first day and entertaining numerous customers and clients as if you have been running this business for months if not years.

What do you get in our typical all-in-1 web hosting package?

We have different all-in-1 web hosting packages tailored to myriad online business requirements. At Nerdster you have three all-in-1 web hosting packages to choose from, namely:

• · Starter package $1600
  The Starter package gives you everything to establish a basic online presence with least effort and investment.
  • A customized design from web design team
  • 7 website pages – content supplied by customer ($60 for every extra page afterwards)
  • Admin area to add or update your web pages
  • 12 Months Web hosting
  • 24/7 hosting and technical support
  • Search engine registration
• · Ecom package $3690
  Our Ecom package is the most comprehensive all-in-1 web hosting package we can provide you.
  • A customized design from web design team
  • 7 website pages – content supplied by customer ($60 for every extra page afterwards)
  • Magento Shopping Cart
  • Configuration of Shipping with Australia Post
  • Payment Gateway configuration with PayPal
  • Customised order and invoice emails
  • 256 BIT SSL certificate to encrypt your customers data for security
  • 12 Months Premium Web Hosting plan
  • 24/7 hosting and technical support
  • Search engine registration

With the yearly cost of  you get 12 months of hosting with all the features of the premium web hosting plan. It gives you a domain name whether it is .com, .net, .info or .org along with a customized web design template containing 15 pages of supplied content ($60 for every extra page afterwards). To give you an immediate search engine traffic boost we provide you our search engine registrations. In case you want to sell products through your website this package also comes with a shopping cart system coupled with a payment gateway setup and a shipping system and all is made completely secure by a 256BIT SSL certificate.

So what is holding you back? Don’t let the limitations of your hosting plan curtail your business aspirations. Contact us today to explore the limitless possibilities with us. We love to see you grow!

-Nerdy

The world today is full of uncertainty and risk, which is why we have insurance policies for nearly everything.  Although a web hosting provider may supply internal back up options, you should NOT rely 100% solely on your Hosting provider to manage a back up of your web sites data.

Surprisingly, most people do not know how important regular and dedicated backups are for site security. For example, should anything happen at your hosting company – say the server your site is hosted on goes bad and needs to be replaced – You’re going to need to restore your site data to get it back on the web. How much would that cost you in downtime, frustration, loss of sales and customer confidence? Sure, all of your settings will still be there, such as the domain name and your IP address, but the actual data for your site could be lost. Hosting companies do not guarantee site backups, and most actually state in their terms and conditions that site owners are responsible for performing their own backups.

Your website is the public face of your company, not to mention a sizable investment. You wouldn’t drive your car around without insurance or own a house without homeowners insurance, so why have a website with no safety net? Our dedicated backup service is specifically designed to ensure that your website is backed up on a weekly basis, as well as to provide the means to quickly and easily restore your website should the need arise.

Many years ago, I had several websites hosted with a large web hosting company in the USA, this company is very well known and has been in the industry for over a decade. I used my hosting account with this USA company to host a close friends Parents business web site which sold pet food online. I also had a couple of forums with several thousand members that I had worked very hard to get over a couple of years and some micro sites.

I had 2 back ups from the first 2 months, but soon became too busy to process the back up and just let it go. 18 Months later the data center experienced a large outage and data was lost. I was devastated that they had lost my data, not just my data but my close friends family business and all their customers, products, recent invoices and orders. I spent 48 hours of my time going back and forth via their live support, international phone calls and emailing my frustration and anger towards them. They pointed out that in their terms and conditions they clearly stated that they are not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. And when I registered for hosting that i had to agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files.

I was thinking “Who reads this stuff” I didn’t have time to read a 2 page document on their terms and conditions. They compensated me the 100% of my hosting downtime (Around 10 Hours).

I was paying only $8.90 a month for this hosting, so when you calculate the damage this caused because I did not have Back ups, there is the lost years of work building up several thousand members on my forum, the design and building time of the forums, My Micro sites at about $800 a site, My close friends parents online store and data valued at about $8,000 and loss of all their client database not to mention the lost confidence in their repeat sales from existing customers, you can start to see the amount of damage this caused, and all I was compensated for this failure was 10 Hours web hosting. Lets do the Math on this: $8.90 per month divided into 720 hours ( Hours in a month) = 0.012 cents, times that by 10 hours and you will see that the total monetary value is just $1.20. I couldn’t even buy a can of coke with it.

I did however manage to restore my micro sites using Google cache, and I used the back ups from 18 months ago to restore my friends parents website and used their PayPal transactions to contact all customers and let them know what had happened.

I wanted to share this story so that others might understand how important backing up your data regularly is. Make it a monthly process, you can also use dedicated back up services that back up your data daily to a remote server out of your hosting companies data center.

Although this is not cheap, I figured that if I spent $25 a month ( $275.00 a year)  or ( $2750 over 10 years) and if this saved me the pain of losing my data only once in ten years, then it would still be a good investment.

Thanks for reading my blog post and remember to:  BACK UP your DATA REGULARLY !

Merry Christmas and I hope you all have a prosperous 2012

-Nerdy

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