Web Wiz News

Web Wiz is pleased to announce that we are now a Member of RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens) and a Local Internet Registry (LIR).

This places Web Wiz with other major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and allows us to make direct IP address allocations on behalf of our customers.

Although the internet is mostly unregulated, the allocation and registration of Internet number resources (IP Addresses) is controlled very carefully by five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs).

The Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) is an independent, not-for-profit membership organisation and serves as one of five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). Its service region incorporates Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia. The RIPE NCC is responsible for the allocation and assignment of Internet Protocol (IP) address space, Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) and the management of reverse domain names within RIPE NCC service region. 

More information on RIPE can be found at www.ripe.net

Web Wiz turns 10 this month! Web Wiz was launched as Web Wiz Guide (www.webwizguide.com) on the 3rd of September 2001 offering a range of Free Web Apps, Hosting Services, Tips, Reviews and Information to Webmasters building their own websites.

Our balance of software, useful information and hosting services proved to be a success from the start with over 5,000 visitors within the first week and our success continues with us now reaching 60,000 visitors per month and our 15,000th customer this summer.

To celebrate our 10th birthday we are offering a 10% discount for 1 year on all new Hosting Packages and 10% discount on new and upgrade Software Licenses till the end of 2011. To receive your 10% discount just enter "HappyBirthday" in the promo code box when making your purchase.

The Web Wiz network upgrade to Failover Clustering was completed last week and all Windows Hosting, Windows Reseller Hosting and Hyper-V Virtual Server  Hosting Services have been migrated over to our new Failover Clusters.
 
Our Highly Available Servers hosted on Active Clustered Nodes are able to failover, with no interruption to service, to Passive Clustered Nodes in the event of hardware failure, maintenance, or upgrades.
 
High Availability Failover Hosting for Shared Hosting and Hyper-V Virtual Server Hosting is a similar solution to more expensive solutions used to host high traffic mission critical websites.
 
For more information on the new Web Wiz Failover Clustered Network Architecture have a look at our High Availability Failover Hosting page.