Sydney Server Co-Location Sale

Book your rack space today! Take advantage of the 50% Small Business Tax Break offered by the Government. Buy your server and co-locate it in Sydney datacentre now! Since the rack space is limited, there are two options to colocate a server:

1. Order now and put your server in the rack now.
2. Order now and colocate your server by the 1st of September 2009. (The time between now and 1 September 2009 is Free!)

For more details - see our colocation hosting page.

[18 June 2009]

Alcoa FrogWatch picks up the "FAST.hit Most Outstanding Web Award"

Alcoa FrogWatch won FAST.hit most outstanding web award at the 2008 WA Web Awards announced last Friday at the gala dinner held at the University Club of Western Australia. Congratulations!
FrogWatch Website: http://frogwatch.museum.wa.gov.au/
Web Awards Website: http://www.wawebawards.com.au/

[10 November 2008]

On-line Businesses Must Meet 4-Second Challenge

Media Release 5 November 2008

Businesses feeling the pain of the economic downturn are re-evaluating the importance of an on-line presence to increase their reach and accessibility... (Download full text as pdf).

Are you a Fast Hit? Blast your way to a new iPod Touch!

WIN iPod Touch (8GB)!

FAST.hit is inviting you to attend the Edge of the Web conference, in Perth November 6 & 7, play a game or two of Space Invaders and win an amazing iPod Touch!

Do not delay - register now at http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/

[30 October 2008]

FAST.hit sponsors Edge of the Web 2008

FAST.hit sponsors Edge of the Web, this November 6 and 7 - Australia’s newest web development conference. Featuring an exciting lineup of national and international speakers, Edge of the Web will bring a world-class web conference experience to Western Australia.

Visit http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/ and http://www.wawebawards.com.au/

[8 August 2008]

.asia domains - Now Available!

Today, the newly created domain extension - .asia became available for all to register. Get your own domain now - while it's still available. Cheap .asia domains - http://domains.fasthit.net/

[26 March 2008]

FAST.hit in the News: WA Web Awards

This year's WA Web Awards are getting a bit of publicity... this time it's in WA Business News:

WA Web Awards Platinum Sponsor, FAST.hit says it's pleased to be part of the Web Awards success story. "FAST.hit Web Hosting works closely with web development firms and the importance of such a partnership cannot be underestimated. We make sure websites stay online, do daily backups and provide access to technology and tools which make web designers' lives easier," said FAST.hit's Guennadi Moukine.

[8 August 2007]

ColdFusion 8 Hosting - Now Available!

Today, the day ColdFusion 8 was released, Fast Hit made ColdFusion 8 hosting plan available for sign up. Be the first to try this new exiting technology!

[30 July 2007]

ColdFusion 8 CF8 Web Hosting (Scorpio)

FREE beta trial CF8 Web Hosting accounts are now available. What you will get:

Windows 2003 platform with .NET 1/2/3
200MB Disk space
200MB MS SQL 2005 OR MS SQL 2008 ("Katmai" Trial) Database space
FTP Access
DNS Management for your own domain or yourname.cf8host.com
Email Management

To sign up, please go to http://www.coldfusion8hosting.com/

[26 June 2007]

ColdFusion 8 Web Hosting

On 30 May 2007 Adobe announced availability of ColdFusion 8 public beta.

Fast Hit Web Hosting will be one of the first web hosting companies to release production CF 8 Hosting plans when ColdFusion 8 becomes available. Stay tuned - the developments will be posted on this blog and Fast Hit's News Page.

If you'd like a free ColdFusion 8 Hosting account while it's still in Beta, please let us know at support@fasthit.net

There some really cool features in this new ColdFusion 8 version:

• Server monitoring to help identify server bottlenecks, allowing for tuning and improved performance.
• Step through code debugging in a new Eclipse plug-in debugger.
• Adobe Flex and Ajax features that let ColdFusion power personalized, multimedia-rich applications to enhance users' experiences on the web.
• High-quality, dynamically created on-demand multimedia presentations.
• PDF document and form integration for a printable, portable way to intelligently capture and share information.
• Image creation and manipulation with more than 50 new CFML tags and functions.
• Native support for .NET objects to easily integrate ColdFusion applications with enterprise data and infrastructure services.
• Significant application runtime and server performance improvements.

New Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane phone numbers

Please update your address books. Fast Hit now has new contact phone numbers in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne:

VPS Hosting with Plesk - now available!

Australian VPS Hosting with Plesk control panel is now available. Our plans start from only $33/mth - all servers are based in Australia. Here is a link to our VPS Hosting Plans page.

ColdFusion CFMX 7.0.2 / Flex Hosting

ColdFusion 7.0.2 / Flex 2 hosting is now available on all Fast Hit's MX7 plans. ColdFusion 7.0.2 includes the ColdFusion Data Services and ColdFusion Extensions for Flex Builder 2.

Here is one of the first Flex applications hosted on the server - "My Tasting Notes Wine tracker" from www.mytastingnotes.com.au

Links:

• About Flex
• Flex Data Services 2
• Flex Whitepaper (pdf)
• Fast Hit plans supporting Flex Hosting

New contact phone numbers

PLEASE NOTE that the old phone number (1300 650 956) will no longer be in use from the 1st of June 2006. To contact Fast Hit sales or support, please call one of this numbers:

To submit support questions please go to http://helpdesk.fasthit.net

New Helpdesk

Fast Hit is proud to annouce the launch of a new Support / Helpdesk system which replaces the old Trouble Ticket system that was used over the last 2.5years.

The new system provides each user with a flexible interface to submit support requests, monitor progress, search knowledgebase articles, make comments and more. In the coming weeks the system will be integrated into our Control Panel allowing uses to login automatically directly from the Control Panel.

Please submit your support questions on-line at http://helpdesk.fasthit.net

New Web Hosting Features: .NET 2 Hosting, MS SQL 2005, mySQL 5 and VPS

FAST.hit is announcing new web hosting plans including MS SQL 2005 hosting, Mission-Critical Hosting plans with full Administrator access and security management, .NET 2, mySQL 5 hosting and much more! (March 2006)

FAST.hit is sponsoring WebDU

FAST.hit is sponsoring WebDU - the premier Asia Pacific Web Technology Conference, taking place 2 - 3 March 2006 in Sydney, Australia. This is the second time we will be attending the event as sponsors. If you are around – come and say hello to us! We will be announcing new web hosting plans including MS SQL 2005 hosting, Windows-based VPS (Virtual Private Servers), .NET 2 and much more! (February 2006)

Vote for FAST.hit!

FAST.hit is nominated for the MX Developer's Journal Readers' Choice Award. Please vote for us in the "Best Web Hosting" category! (April 2005)

FAST.hit Web Hosting Plans just got better!

Our web hosting plans just got better. We removed the "disk usage summary" and now give you equal disk space allocation for each of the plan resources. So, if before you got 100Mb for Value.MX, now we give you 100Mb for web files + 100Mb for mySQL and 100Mb for your mail - 300Mb in total! (April 2005)

Domain Name Prices Reduced

Fast Hit reduced Australian domain name registration prices. You can now register a .com.au or .net.au for only $60.00 (+GST). This is the cheapest pricing in Australia - don't miss out, get your cheap domain registration or renewal now. Visit www.domains.fasthit.net (March 2005)

MS SQL Server Pricing Announced

We are proud to announce that MS SQL Server 2000 hosting is now available. You can add a MS SQL database to any of the current plans for $11/month. And that includes 1Gb of disk space! (Feb 2005)

Plans upgrade: Unlimited email accounts

Good News! Our Value.MX, Business.MX, Fast.Business and Power plans now come with Unlimited mail boxes! You can have as many emails as you like, as long as you usage fits into the resources allocated to your account. The upgrade applies to all new active and current accounts on these plans. (Jan 2005)

Macromedia CFMX Certification

We are proud to announce that our support staff now has Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion Developer Certification. We see a great importance in the level of support that we provide and constantly working on improving our staff's level of expertise. (Dec 2004)

Fast Hit Sponsors Perth Money Show 2004

For the third year FAST.hit is sponsoring Perth Money Show. Please visit the show and come and say hello to us at stand 5. More info can be found on this web site: www.perthmoneyshow.com

NEW! PostgreSQL database hosting

With Fast Hit's commitment to perfection of our services, we're proud to announce support for PostgreSQL database. The PostgreSQL database is now available on all plans that currently include a MySQL database option for NO extra cost. You can add PostgreSQL to your account from the Control Panel and then manage it with phpPgAdmin. (30/01/04)

NEW! Email Anti-virus Scan

Fast Hit has upgraded email scan engine. Our anti-virus software is updated daily with new virus definitions and is expected to block most of emails containing viruses. Anti virus scan is enabled automatically for all email boxes hosted with Fast Hit. (29/01/04)

NEW! Anti-spam software

An anti-spam module is now active. Fast Hit blocks spam email listed in the www.spamhaus.org real-time black list database. All other emails are assessed for spam and if certain criteria are matched, the email's Subject is tagged with "****SPAM****" prefix before arriving to your mail box. Our Spam protection system is based on legendary and widely used SpamAssassin software. Most email programs have support files or sites to assist in creating a rule to delete such flagged email messages. Please see the application's support site for information on free articles. Future upgrades of our Control Panel will allow you to specify spam rules on per-mailbox basis. (29/01/04)

FAST.hit Sponsors MXDU 2004

As part of our commitment to the web development community, we are pleased to announce that we are sponsoring MXDU 2004. MXDU 2004 will be held in Sydney on 24 - 25 February. If you are there, come and say hello to us! (15/01/04)

Need more info? Feel free to send us an email to mailbag@fasthit.net OR call 08 9429 4600.

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