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Melbourne IT hit with DDoS legal threat
Former customer disputes suspension of shared hosting account.
Jan 17 2012 7:01AM
Melbourne IT hit with DDoS legal threat
Web extortionists could be linked to ANZ E*trade attack.
Jan 16 2012 12:58PM
Brisbane developer wakes PCs with iPhone proximity
Homegrown PC fleet admin tool.
Aug 3 2010 6:42AM
WebCentral hosting suffers a late Friday fail
Dedicated and shared customers lose service.
Sep 11 2009 4:39PM
Diesel generators save the day at Brisbane data centre fire
Customer kit stays connected.
Aug 29 2009 6:29AM
Revealed: Lessons from WebCentral's 72-hour email outage
Melbourne IT chief technical officer Glenn Gore gives iTnews a blow-by-blow account of how a SAN failure at WebCentral’s data centre led to 200,000 customers losing e-mail access for three days.
May 4 2009 12:23PM
WebCentral email saga finally over
Some 72 hours into an outage that left WebCentral customers without access to managed exchange, POP email or webmail, customers of the Melbourne-IT owned hosting company finally report being able to once again access e-mail.
May 1 2009 3:36PM
WebCentral email still down at 49 hour mark
WebCentral claims to have fixed the problem that has left tens of thousands of Australians without email over the last three days, but customers continue to report issues with the service.
Apr 30 2009 11:24AM
Harbour IT cut down by WebCentral email outage
Harbour IT has revealed that WebCentral is the reason for an email outage that has left its thousands of customers without service for up to 48 hours.
Apr 29 2009 3:02PM
WebCentral customers still without email
Customers of Melbourne IT-owned WebCentral are still without email on day two of an outage affecting customers across the nation.
Apr 29 2009 12:14PM
Mystery email outage cuts off WebCentral customers
Technicians at Melbourne IT-owned WebCentral are working to resolve an error that has seen its customers without access to POP e-mail, webmail or managed Exchange services since 9:30am.
Apr 28 2009 2:22PM
WebCentral takes on T-Suite with online backup
Melbourne IT-owned hosting business WebCentral is taking on Telstra T-Suite with a new cloud-based backup service for small business customers.
Apr 28 2009 5:52AM
WebCentral customers abandon ship after major outage
Customers are churning away from Webcentral’s shared hosting service after a three-day outage caused by a storage system failure on Friday, citing horrible customer service and lost e-business opportunities.
Mar 25 2009 1:17PM
WebCentral reveals capacity to run 653 virtual machines
WebCentral has provided a glimpse into its on-demand services architecture, revealing it is running 49 blade servers with the capacity to operate 653 VMware-based virtual machines.
Nov 12 2008 2:27PM
WebCentral email server crashes, offline for almost a week
SYDNEY - Australia’s largest web and application hosting company, WebCentral, has experienced major difficulties over the past week with the entire email network failing.
Jun 21 2007 6:02PM
WebCentral acquistion drives Melbourne IT growth
Greater than expected synergies from its WebCentral Group acquisition have helped Melbourne IT record strong growth across its business.
Feb 21 2007 3:34PM
Melbourne IT reports $7.1m profit
Melbourne IT reported a profit of $7.1 million for its half year ending June 30, following the sale of its Neulevel business, netting it a gain of $4.5 million for the period.
Aug 23 2006 1:47PM
WebCentral revenues "consistent with guidance"
WebCentral’s has recorded revenue of $52.2 million, NPAT of $3.2 million and EBIT of 5.0m in the financial year ending 30 June 2006.
Aug 16 2006 4:27PM
WebCentral ups SaaS play
WebCentral upped its services offering with the public launch of a new online Software as a Service (SaaS) sales hub.
Jul 13 2006 12:31PM
Melbourne IT to acquire WebCentral
Melbourne IT as reached an agreement with the board of WebCentral to acquire 100 percent of the shares of the web-hosting company.
May 22 2006 2:43PM
