Unscheduled Web Server Maintenance

Dear Customers

We are undergoing an unscheduled web server maintenance from 4:00 PM to install an urgent security update to our web server which might affect some of the accounts.

This will take up to 3 hours while waiting for the website to refresh across the board.

Your email services will not be disrupted during this maintenance.

Please visit our Announcement Blog - http://blog.myvdh.com for announcements and news.

Please email support@vdomainhost.com.sg if you have any questions.

Warmest regards,

--

Danny Winston

System Administrator

Level 2 Support

Unscheduled Web Server Maintenance Completed

Dear Customers

The unscheduled web server maintenance has been completed.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards

Danny Winston

System Administrator

Level 2 Support

Unscheduled Web Server Maintenance

Dear Customers

We are undergoing an unscheduled web server maintenance.

This will last for 1 hour.

Your email services will not be disrupted.

Please email support@vdomainhost.com.sg if you have any questions.

Joe Mike

System Administrator

Level 2 Support

Venture Domain Hosting

Happy New Year 2010

Dear Customers,

Wishing you and your family a great and fruitful year ahead.

Our sales office will be closed from 12PM, 31 Dec 2009 and re-open at 10AM, 4 Jan 2010.

Jack Anderson
COO
Venture Domain Hosting

Scheduled Maintenance - Exchange Server: Software Updates December 29, 2009 2:00AM EST (Dec 30, 3 PM SGT)

Scheduled date and time: December 29, 2009 2:00AM EST (December 30, 3:00PM Singapore Time)
Scheduled Maintenance Duration: Approx. 15 Min
System(s) Affected: All Exchange Services
Expected Impact: We will be installing OS updates on your server that require a reboot. Incoming mail will be queued until the maintenance is complete.
Action required: None

Scheduled Maintenance: Exchnage Server will be offline on December 28, 2009 2:00AM ET (Dec 29 3PM)

Dear Customer

Scheduled date and time: December 28, 2009 2:00AM ET (December 29, 3PM Singapore Time)

Maintenance Duration: up to 2 hours

System(s) Affected: All Exchange Services, SharePoint, OCS

Expected Impact: We will be performing infrastructure upgrades that require your server to be offline. All incoming mail will be queued until the maintenance is complete.

Wishing all valued customers Merry Christmas

Dear Valued Customers,

The Management of Venture Domain Hosting wishes everyone Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2010.

Our Sales Office will be closed from 24th Dec 2009 and re-open from 28th December, 10AM.

Warmest Regards

Ivan Nicolai
CEO

Venture Domain Hosting

Scheduled Maintenance: Software Updates Dec 22, 2009 2:00AM ET (Dec 23,1:00PM SGT)

Scheduled date and time: Dec 22, 2009 2:00AM ET (Dec 23, 2009 1:00PM Singapore Time)

Scheduled Maintenance Duration: Approx. 15 Min
System(s) Affected: All Exchange Services
Expected Impact: We will be installing OS updates on the Exchange server that require a reboot. Incoming mail will be queued until the maintenance is complete.
Action required: None

Promotion: VXMAS09 Plan

Now for the month of December , we are having special promotion till 31 December 2009.

To celebrate our 7th year of hosting to our valued customers we are giving away up to 2X more space during this season of giving:

The VXMAS09 plan is a special promotion plan and has the following features:

1. 1,000 MB Space UPGRADED to 2,000 MB
2. Unlimited Email
3. Unmetered Bandwidth
4. Free Domain Renewal
5. 24x7 FTP Access
6. Support PHP/SSI
7. E-commerce Ready
   
   

One time Setup Fee: SGD 32.26 WAIVED for 1st 100 sign up

Monthly Payment: SGD 10.08

Please call 6100-8347 or email sales@vdomainhost.com.sg to sign up now.

Yearly billing cycles applies.

Press Release: Hosted Exchange 2010 - Time to outsource

Hosted Exchange 2010 offers some important opportunities in addition to the traditional benefits of hosting – low monthly cost, no administration, and better uptime.

The most important Exchange 2010 update: 100% data protection. It’s virtually impossible that your business-critical Exchange data can be lost even in the event of a catastrophe because our service keeps multiple secure copies of your data.

In the meantime, here’s a summary of the benefits:

1. Indestructible email: Our Hosted Exchange 2010 architecture guarantees 100% data protection.
2. More productive users: The new OWA 2010 provides support for a variety of browsers including Safari and Firefox. Features like conversation view and instant messaging are also built right into the browser.
3. Control, your way: Add users or mobile devices like Blackberries with a few clicks. Or contact us for support.
4. Less than six minutes of downtime per year: We guarantees less than six minutes of downtime per year. If you need support, feel free to contact us.

Scheduled Maintenance: Software Updates November 26, 2009 2:00AM ET (1:00PM SGT)

Scheduled date and time: November 26, 2009 2:00AM ET (November 26, 2009 1:00PM Singapore Time)
Scheduled Maintenance Duration: Approx. 15 Min
System(s) Affected: All Exchange Services
Expected Impact: We will be installing OS updates on the Exchange server that require a reboot. Incoming mail will be queued until the maintenance is complete.
Action required: None

Press Release: Free Search Engine Submission Service

Singapore, November 23, 2009– Venture Domain Hosting, Singapore Web Hosting and Email Hosting provider, today announced the launch of their new free Search Engine Submission Service (SESS).

This new service allows your web site to be submitted to hundreds of search engines, including major players such as Google, Bing, Altavista, and Yahoo.

“The Internet brings enormous opportunities for small businesses, but without your potential customer knowing your online storefront, they wouldn't knock on your doors” said Jack Anderson, COO of Venture Domain Hosting. “I look forward to enhancing and offering our added-value services to the community and industry. as Venture Domain Hosting moves into its next phase of growth.”

How to Choose the Best Web Hosting Service

Business nowadays is heavily dependent on email to communicate with their associates and customers. Therefore one of the most crucial decisions that most online businesses have to make is choosing the best web hosting service. With a popular or well known and reliable Internet Service Provider (ISP) you won't face many problems, however with a poor web hosting service provider it can be a nightmare.

Choosing the right kind of web hosting service can be a very daunting task for the new business owners at times as there are some technical features that you need to make sure of. Here you can find below what exactly to look for when choosing the best web hosting service.

Amount of web space: A web hosting service provider would usually assign you a certain amount of space on their server. You need to ensure that does it have the right amount of space for your website , emails and your business requirements. You might want to expand your online business tomorrow and would require much more space. So it's imperative for you that the web hosting company should be able to provide you with ample of space especially if your website is rich in graphics or has video clips. You will also need to take into consideration the number of email accounts for your company, a typical set up of 5 staffs will require individual email quota between 100MB to 500MB depending on the staff job scope and requirements. Therefore you should take at least a web hosting plan with 3-5GB of space.

FTP access: FTP access is very crucial since it provides the ability to upload new pages that is crucial for website updates.

Degree of reliability, security and speed of access: Speed, security and reliability are extremely important for the success of any online business. While choosing a reliable web hosting service you need to ensure that this is taken care of. A site that is not available, not updated on time or is down, will lose many online visitors. If an online visitor finds your site listed on a search engine, and he tries to access it but finds it down, he is sure to move on to the next link and you lose an important customer or visitor. Even slow working websites are very frustrating. So how do you know if a hosting company is reliable or not? By word of mouth or feedback from others! If that's not possible then you can yourself try accessing your site during peak hours and non-peak hours too. Your site has to be secure of intruders at the same time, especially if it's an ecommerce website. Many hosting provider provides Secure Sockets Layer or SSL to protect and encrypt sensitive data such as credit card information while passing it from your website to the credit card company data servers.

Dependence and support: Does the web hosting service provide 24x7 supports? Do they respond rapidly to your issue? Can you depend on them? If you need 24-hour technical support that larger companies need then expect to pay substantially more. In fact, people are much more expensive than machines.

Pricing plans : Price is also one factor that you should look out for when choosing the best web hosting service. It's not necessarily true that the most expensive hosts are the best. Simply compare prices and services before you finalize one.

Data transfer (Bandwidth): You also need to see if the hosting company provides you with sufficient bandwidth for efficient data transfer. After all it's your website and you need to ensure that you are getting the best services for the money you invest.

Hosted Exchange 2010: What’s New

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater business mobility. With new deployment and storage options, enhanced inbox management capabilities, and e-mail archiving built-in, Exchange Server 2010 helps you lower costs and enhance business outcomes.

Exchange Server 2010 includes a host of new features customers will benefit from, including new integrated e-mail archive and discovery functionality, new user features to battle inbox overload, voice mail management enhancements, and improvements that simplify administration.

For businesses, highlights include:

• New integrated archiving and discovery capabilities.

• New unified mailbox resilience model that provides high availability, disaster recovery, and back up capabilities.

• Ability to easily delegate administration to specialized users, such the help desk or a compliance officer.

• Comprehensive information protection capabilities—from e-mail moderation to automatic e-mail encryption.

• The choice to run Exchange on-premises, as a service hosted by Microsoft or as a hybrid of both.

For users, highlights include:

• A consistent inbox, calendaring, and contacts experience across the PC, browser and phone.

• Integrated conversation view bringing together information across all folders, inbox and sent and deleted items.

• Ability to remove (or "mute") themselves from irrelevant conversations with the click of a button.

• Text preview of voice mail messages in the inbox.

• New Call Answering Rules to easily create customized voice mail rules, such as call transfer options.

• Mail Tips to notify users about potential mistakes before they send e-mail.

Top Reasons to Try Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

• Reduced deployment cost

  Exchange Server 2010 helps you reduce costs by addressing common infrastructure requirements such as backup, e-mail archiving, mobile e-mail access, and voice mail with no need for third-party tools.

• Simplified high availability and disaster recovery

  Exchange Server 2010 introduces a simplified approach to high availability and disaster recovery to help you achieve new levels of reliability and reduce the complexity of delivering business continuity.

• Easier administration and decreased dependence on the help desk

  Exchange Server 2010 provides new self-service capabilities to help users perform common tasks without calling the help desk.

• Greater mobility and flexible access

  Exchange Server 2010 offers an enhanced universal inbox experience, which provides your users with access to all of their business communications from a single location.

• Decreased inbox overload and increased productivity

  Exchange Server 2010 adds new productivity features which help your users organize and prioritize the communications in their inboxes efficiently.

• Transformed voice mail

  With Exchange Server 2010, users can receive their voice mail messages in their inbox with text preview.

• Simplified compliance

  Exchange Server 2010 delivers new integrated archiving functionality to help simplify compliance and discovery.

• Safeguards for sensitive information

  With centrally managed and enforced information protection and control capabilities, Exchange Server 2010 makes it easy to encrypt, control, and moderate your company's communications.

• Reduced risk of malware and spam

  Exchange Server 2010 actively helps protect your communications through built-in defenses against junk e-mail and support for an array of third party security products.

Press Release: Exchange 2010

Now, more than ever, your organization requires cost-effective and flexible communication tools. With Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 you can achieve new levels of reliability and performance with features that simplify your administration, help protect your communications, and delight your users by meeting their demands for greater mobility.

Microsoft Exchange Server, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s Unified Communications solution, is a flexible and reliable messaging platform that can help you lower your messaging costs by 50-80%, increase productivity with anywhere access to business communications, andsafeguard your business with protection and compliance capabilities that help you manage risk.

Migrate to Exchange 2010 to improve your productivity and meet your increasingly communication needs.Call Venture Domain Hosting @ 61008347 now.

Sales Hotline : 6100-8347

Our Sales Hotline :6100-8347 (6100-VDHS) is available from 10AM to 5PM , Mon-Fri , excluding public holidays.

Why Hosted Exchange?

Microsoft Exchange server is the most popular email and collaboration platform for business. It helps business better communicate with partners and customers, and boosts employee productivity. However, building and managing an Exchange server environment is costly and complex. It requires a large investment in hardware, software, and technical expertise to install it, configure it, and manage it on a daily basis. Exchange hosting allows SMBs to enjoy all the productivity and collaborative benefits of Exchange, without any of the frustrations of managing it in-house.

Corporate website is back online

Dear Customers and Associates,

Venture Domain Hosting corporate web site at www.vdomainhost.com.sg is live online.

Please email us at feedback@vdomainhost.com.sg if you have any feedback regarding our site.

Extended website maintenance time

Dear Customers,

Our web team will be extending the website maintenance time for the corporate website @ www.vdomainhost.com.sg till tomorrow (25/8/2009) 10AM.

We apologized for any inconvienence caused.

Venture Domain Hosting Team

Corporate Site Close for Maintenance

Our Corporate Website , www.vdomainhost.com.sg, will be close from 5PM to 11PM, today (24/8/2009) for maintenance. Please visit our Annoucement Blog for more information. Customer data and hosting will not be affected.

Coetus Server has back on line

Hi

Coetus server has completed File System Checking and back online.

Server updates - - coeus - currently FSCKing

Hi

Current update - - coeus - currently FSCKing

Emergency server maintenance

Hi

We will be performing emergency maintenance on all servers within in our fleet shortly. A reboot to the system is necessary in order to complete this task and as such each server may experience downtime ranging from 2 - 5 minutes. This may be extended for servers requiring an FSCK (File System Checking)due to extended uptime or the like. We will be working 10 machines at a time

Happy 44th Birthday Singapore

As we celebrate the 44th birthday for Singapore, we are having special promotion. Stay tuned at our blog and Twitter @ http://www.twitter.com/vdomainhost for special promotion.

Twitter @vdomainhost

Get the latest updates by following our Twitter updates @vdomainhost

Increase in Doman Name price.

Due to increase in domain name price, our domain name for .COm/.COM.SG will increase from SGD 86 per year to SGD 93 per year.

Email Forwarding has been disabled.

Dear Customers.

Due to abuse from budget hosting accounts, which has led to high server loads, the Complimentary Email Forwarding Service has been disabled for accounts residing in the Aries server.

You can upgrade to our Corporate Hosting plan to enjoy dedicated hosting with huge disk space and unlimited bandwidth.

Please contact our Sales Department at sales@vdomainhost.com.sg if you have any questions.

Venture Domain Hosting Sales Department

Ivan Nicolai - CEO and President, Venture Domain Hosting

Ivan Nicolai

Chief Executive Officer and President

Ivan Nicolai is involved in the daily operations of Venture Domain Hosting, strategic business planning, project management, and the long term goals of steering the Company towards her business goals and vision.

Ivan has been involved in the web designing industry for over fifteen years and managed some of the large scale web projects. Ivan has been a webmaster since the age of 15 and loves to help people lo use the Internet to achieve their business objectives.

Role of CEO

1. Board Administration and Support
Supports operations and administration of Board by advising and informing Board members, interfacing between Board and staff, and supporting Board's evaluation of chief executive

2. Program, Product and Service Delivery
Oversees design, marketing, promotion, delivery and quality of programs, products and services

3. Financial, Tax, Risk and Facilities Management
Recommends yearly budget for Board approval and prudently manages organization's resources within those budget guidelines according to current laws and regulations

4. Human Resource Management
Effectively manages the human resources of the organization according to authorized personnel policies and procedures that fully conform to current laws and regulations

5. Community and Public Relations
Assures the organization and its mission, programs, products and services are consistently presented in strong, positive image to relevant stakeholders

6. Fundraising (nonprofit-specific)
Oversees fundraising planning and implementation, including identifying resource requirements, researching funding sources, establishing strategies to approach funders, submitting proposals and administrating fundraising records and documentation

Contact Ivan: ivan.nicolai@vdomainhost.com

Jack Anderson - COO and Vice President, Venture Domain Hosting

Jack Anderson

Chief Operating Officer and Vice President

Jack holds the position of Venture Domain Hosting's Chief Operating Officer. Jack brings to Venture Domain Hosting a hands-on, team-oriented corporate culture. Jack's responsibilities include: managing Venture Domain Hosting's sales and billing operations, maintaining the vdomainhost.com.sg website and various social media channel including Twitter,Facebook and Blog.

Role of COO

1. Marshal limited resources as set out by the CEO to the most productive uses with the aim of creating maximum value for the company's stakeholders.
2. Lead by developing and cascading the organizations strategy/mission statement to the lower ranking staff, and implementing appropriate rewards/recognition and coaching/corrective practices to align personnel with company goals.
3. Plan by prioritizing customer, employee and organizational requirements
4. Maintaining and monitoring staffing, levels, Knowledge-Skills-Attributes (KSA), expectations and motivation to fulfill organizational requirements
5. Drive performance measures for the measurement of an operation's performance and consideration of efficiency versus effectiveness, often in the form of dashboards convenient for review of high level key indicators.

Contact Jack: jack.anderson@vdomainhost.com

Press Release: Appointment of new COO - Jack Anderson

Appointment of Key Management Role to Next Phases of Growth for Singapore Web Hosting Company

Singapore, October 1, 2008– Venture Domain Hosting, Singapore Web Hosting and Email Hosting provider, today announced that Jack Anderson, who was tapped as acting Chief Operating Officer in September 2008, has been confirmed as permanent Chief Operating Officer.

Jack has extensive previous webmaster experience which he manages private website projects. Jack has a strong track record of successfully starting and leading companies through critical business growth. Prior to joining Venture Domain Hosting, Jack managed a couple of private web projects from the initial planning stage to the final launch stage. In his new role, Jack will help prepare the company and investors for its next phase of growth.

“The current executive management team has pushed Venture Domain Hosting to deliver consistently record-breaking revenues, bringing the Company to new heights,” said Ivan Nicolai, CEO of Venture Domain Hosting. “I look forward to Jack’s continued strategic guidance as Venture Domain Hosting moves into its next phase of growth.”

Press Release: Appointment of new CEO - Ivan Nicolai

Appointment of Key Management Role to Next Phases of Growth for Singapore Web Hosting Company

Singapore, September 15, 2008– Venture Domain Hosting, Singapore Web Hosting and Email Hosting provider, today announced that Ivan Nicolai, who was tapped as acting Chief Executive Officer in September 2008, has been confirmed as permanent Chief Executive Officer.

Ivan has a strong track record of successfully leading companies to obtain substantial growth. Prior to joining Venture Domain Hosting, Ivan joined several start-ups in the dot com era and implement various business strategies. In his new role, Ivan will help steer the company towards the new business goals.

Chinese New Year

Gong Xi Fa Cai!!

Our Sales Office will be taking a break from 6th Feb and will resume on the 11th Feb.

Wishing everyone a prosperous Lunar New Year ahead.

Happy New Year

Wishing everyone a prosperous new year ahead!

Upgrading of Servers

Dear Customers,

We will be upgrading our servers for clients who are hosed at our Singtel EXPAN data centre on saturday evening.

Please point your DNS if you are managing you on own to :

ns3.vdhsg.com
ns4.vdhsg.com

Singtel Expan Center power system maintenance

Singtel Expan Center power system maintenance

Date / Time : 22:00 / 10-Nov to 1200 / 11-Nov

Reason: To facilitate Annual Genset On-Load Testing at Comcentre III.

This is part of SingTel commitments to ensure resilience of the power systems.

Impact: No impact is expected. However SingTel recommend you to back up your critical data and/or divert your service if necessary.

FrontPage - Ceased support

Hi

Microsoft had announced at their web site that they will ceased support for FrontPage 2003 and earlier version of it.

After nine years of being an award-winning Web authoring tool, FrontPage will be discontinued in late 2006. We will continue to serve the diverse needs of our existing FrontPage customers with the introduction of two brand-new application building and Web authoring tools using the latest technologies: Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for the enterprise information workers and Expression Web for the professional Web designer.

Venture Domain Hosting will also ceased support for all such FrontPage related issues.

Price adjustment for .SG domain names

Dear Valued Customers,

From 16^th July onwards, the domain name fee for .SG will be adjusted to SGD 82 per year.

Over the years, Venture Domain Hosting has experience rising cost. We had done our utmost to absorb these costs and not pass them to our valued customers.

It is impossible, however, for us to continue to absorb all the additional costs indefinitely and we are left with the need to implement this rate adjustment.

This adjustment is the first increase we have implemented for the .SG domain name registration and is necessary to ensure that we continue to maintain and improve the quality of our service.

php to version 5

Hi,

We will soon be dropping support for php version 4 since php developers will be dropping support for version 4 less than 210 days to be exact. More details can be read at http://gophp5.org/

Please make sure your third party php web application(s) are version 5 compatible.

Vote for us : Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2007 Nominee

Venture Domain Hosting is honored to be nominated as one of the Spirit of Enterprise Awards 2007 Nominee

The Spirit of Enterprise Award is an annual award that recognizes the entrepreneurial spirit in Singapore by honouring local self-reliant entrepreneurs operating small and medium businesses. From over 200 nominees, only 42 will be selected this year. The 42 selected represent the cream of the crop of entrepreneurs who have shown resilience and tenacity in building up their respective business. An award dinner in September, to be attended by a Guest-of-Honor from the government will formally recognize the winning entrepreneurs.

Check out our interview here.

Click here to vote for us

Urgent Maintenance for UPS - 17/6/2007 1PM to 3PM

Dear Customers

Please note that there will be a urgent maintenance activities required for UPS 2-3 & 2-4 on the following date/ time as indicated in the attached:

Date/ Time: 17/06/07, SGT 1pm to SGT 3pm

Server : Venture (Singtel EXPAN Server)

The server will be shut down before 1PM prior to that for the maintenance to take place.

CPanel 11

Cpanel had released the latest version 11.

Check out their website on the features.

New features includes :

• Enhanced security
• Enhanced usability
• Improved design