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06/08/2026

Our new AI Platform is getting a bit of attention. As Technical Director, Quintin Russ, says in IT Brief this morning, locally hosted AI models give kiwi businesses a choice that doesn't involve questions about where their data ends up, or the capital cost of buying and running AI hardware.

What's your next AI project idea? Get in touch to find out how we can keep your data where it belongs and your costs down.

Businesses wary of offshore AI will be able to keep requests in New Zealand, with usage-based billing and no upfront fee.

04/08/2026

Open-weight AI models, hosted in NZ on fast GPUs with low per-token prices. We don't store request data, and it's all processed in our data centre. Get started today.

Hosted in our NZ data centre, with no subscriptions, and no sneaky data retention.

29/07/2026

If you use our Cloud Containers, the metrics dashboard has long given you the numbers that matter. Now we've added the story behind the numbers. https://sitehost.nz/blog/cloud-container-logs?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=blogshare

Your updated metrics dashboard now include logs alongside your important graphs and data.

27/07/2026

A record 432 new Linux vulnerabilities were reported in a single 24 hour period! But so long as we're managing your server, there's no need to panic.

Headlines about 400+ Linux CVEs is eyebrow raising stuff, but you don’t need to panic.

08/06/2026

When the expert Odoo consultants at Wedoo wanted to prove that self-hosting Odoo ERP can be much, much faster than AWS they knew who to turn to. They also knew how to simulate real Odoo implementations, clients and workloads. The result? 42 benchmarks and one clear winner:

Expert third-party benchmarked our High Performance servers against AWS, testing which setup handles the Odoo ERP system best.

25/05/2026

We are facing a massive DDoS attack and doing everything that we can to keep our systems and your websites up.

If you or your customers are still seeing issues or cannot reach https://sitehost.nz/ can you please post a comment below with the following information:

- Who your Internet is with (ISP) - you can get this information by going to: https://www.whatismyip.com/
- A brief detail of what is broken that you're happy to post publicly.
- Anything else that you think might be useful.

Thank you all.

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25/05/2026

Just before midday Monday the 25th of May, we started experiencing a very large DDoS attack against our network. Both our teams and the teams of several of our partners have been working late into the night to restore services. We have been successful, but there is more work to do today.

Right now, we are still experiencing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) to all parts of our infrastructure. We are actively investigating and taking measures to mitigate the impact on our services. Some customers may be experiencing intermittent connectivity issues, increased latency, or temporary service disruptions while mitigation efforts are underway. If you are, I am sorry you are being affected and we are working to get you fixed ASAP.

We believe services are currently operating normally for traffic routed within New Zealand. However, international traffic continues to experience intermittent degraded performance. Websites utilising CDNs or services hosted outside New Zealand may be intermittently affected, and external monitoring systems may incorrectly report affected services as unavailable. We are working with our upstream provider to adjust DDoS protection settings and optimise mitigation measures.

Our support team are replying to support tickets as quickly as we are able to. Status updates are being posted to our Status Page here: https://www.sitehost-status.net/ we are aware some customers may not be able to login to see our website, so it might appear we are completely down and not communicating with you.

If you have emailed us and haven't heard back please comment below with the following information:

- If you're in New Zealand who your Internet provider (ISP) is. This can be obtained from https://www.whatismyip.com/ if you do not know.
- Whether you can see the https://sitehost.nz/ or https://www.sitehost-status.net/ website
- Whether your email service is working.

These 3 details would be incredibly helpful in us understanding the shape of the issue for our customers.

We apologise for this service disruption and thank you for your patience with us. Getting all of our customers websites and servers running reliably is our teams only priority right now. You can rest assured a full report of the scale of what has happened once every customers websites are stable.

Thank you for your understanding and support, Quintin - Founder.

18/05/2026

If you registered a new .nz domain this year, you've helped the namespace grow to its largest ever size. And if you've renewed any .nz domains, you've heaped nudge the retention rate a little bit higher too.

Record totals and strong growth have defined the .nz namespace in 2026 so far.

27/04/2026

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, known as Resolute Raccoon, has passed our in-house testing and is good to go on Virtual Servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers.

The latest long-term support Ubuntu release 26.04 LTS, Resolute Raccoon, can now be provisioned on any new Linux Virtual Server or Virtual Dedicated Server