Our DNS Management interface will allow you to manage your DNS zone for your domain name right from your client portal. Through this interface, you can currently manage the following DNS record types:

 - A – IPv4 record
 - AAAA – IPv6 record
- NS – Nameserver record
 - MX – Mail Exchange record
 - CNAME – Canonical Name record
 - SRV – Service record
 - TXT – Free text record

We believe that this free service will greatly increase the usability of domain names with the fact that you will no longer need to purchase a separate hosting package to manage DNS.

If you are an existing customer wanting this service, please contact us, or to register a new domain name from Vetta Technologies, click here.

Two-factor authentication adds an additional layer of security by adding a second step to your login. It takes something you know (ie. your password) and adds a second factor, typically something you have (such as your phone.) Since both are required to log in, even if an attacker has your password they can’t access your account.

To activate two-factor authentication, you’ll need a compatible smartphone app (we recommend Google Authenticator). Once you have this installed, login and click “Update Your Details”, then click “Security Settings” and enable two-factor authentication.

If you have a domain name and a hosting or DNS package with us (we’ll soon be rolling out this service to all domain names), you can now modify your DNS records in our cluster directly from our Online Service Portal.

To modify DNS records, login and navigate to your domains page. Find the domain you wish to modify and select “Domain DNS Manager” from the dropdown.

We’re serious about security and unfortunately, sometimes this leads to you being blocked from a server for multiple failed logins (as well as other reasons). Rather than opening a support ticket, you can now unblock your IP address by logging in and under the support tab, click “Unblock IP”.

These new features should see you have a better experience with us and using the Online Service Portal. For any enquiries, please contact us.

You may ask why are we migrating to new infrastructure when our current one is sufficient, I’d like to highlight some points.

Vetta owned & operated

Currently, we are in a situation of renting or leasing our servers and renting space in datacenters to store these servers. With our new infrastructure, all hardware and the infrastructure is owned by Vetta Technologies. This gives us greater flexibility to better compete with the rapidly evolving hosting market.

Better Servers

Not only are our servers now owned, but they are far superior in system specifications. Our new web hosting servers are based on a minimum setup of Intel i5 Ivy Bridge processors with 16GB of high-performance RAM. This means that your websites will render faster on new hardware and performance will be far greater.

Faster Network

Our network has been built by us from the ground up, with our main focuses being speed and security. Speeds from within our network are all under 1ms with gigabit connectivity and Cat6 cabling throughout.

Faster Response Times

When critical problems arise, currently a datacenter technician is needed to be called and arrangements made before work is done. With our network now located from within our office, our technicians can be on-site within 10 minutes (if outside business hours), ready to solve the issue as soon as the server is in front of them.

We will be continuing to sell on our Trade Me account.

All existing orders on our online stores will be processed as normal. For any enquiries please contact us.

Effective immediately, when signing up for a new web hosting service you’ll now have the option of having your web hosting account located on either a server in Auckland, New Zealand or in Atlanta, GA, USA. This means that whether your main visitors and target market are in New Zealand or international, we’ll have a solution to fit your needs and have your website loading faster for your visitors.

We have also now implemented DNS clustering on our New Zealand and USA servers. This means that your domain name will only be set to one set of nameservers (ns1.vetta.net.nz and ns2.vetta.net.nz) no matter which server you’re on. We’re also seeing decreased page load times for clients on these nameservers. All clients eligible for this service with their domain name registered through HostingLab have already been switched over to the new nameservers. For clients with domain names registered elsewhere, the following nameservers will need to be set by the 31st January 2013, at which time the current nameservers will no longer be functional.

New Nameservers:
ns1.vetta.net.nz = 108.161.131.138
ns2.vetta.net.nz = 108.161.131.238

For enquires relating to web hosting services, please call us toll-free on 0508 HOSTING.

Vetta Technologies Internet Services, branded as VettaNET  will be providing internet plans starting at $44.95 per month and will be differentiating itself from the current New Zealand Internet Service Providers by offering fantastic features, including:

• Unlimited National (within NZ) Data
• No term contract
• No line speed limitations
• No rate limiting, filtering or caching
• No peak time slow downs
• Free 10GB Cloud Backup Storage
• Free customised email address, e.g. joe@bloggs.co.nz

Also incorporated into VettaNET will be our existing internet related services including Cloud Backup, Website Hosting and Domain Names.

Flush DNS Cache in Microsoft Windows

• Click Start > Run > Type cmd
• In Command Prompt, type ipconfig /flushdns

If you’ve ever used a USB flash drive or Firewire cable to transfer files you already have a good understanding of what Thunderbolt is.

As you’ll already know, USB can be used in a variety of ways, but most commonly used for file transfer (e.g. external hard drive, USB flash drives etc) and for a long time USB has been the best way to do this, not just in speed but also the wide variety of devices that support the USB protocol.

Firewire is similar to USB however is not as common and can also be used easily between Macintosh computers to transfer files. Firewire has usually been preferred in such industries as graphic design due to it’s vast speed increases on USB 2.0

Now that USB 3.0 has been released and starting to be deployed on devices, people are wanting USB 3.0 external hard drives and pen drives. No surprises there as it’s over 10 times faster than it’s predecessor, USB 2.0.

However, Intel’s new Thunderbolt technology blows the other protocols out of the water. Thunderbolt allows users to not only connect their computers to external storage at twice the speed of USB 3.0 (yes, over 20 times faster than USB 2.0!) but also to connect monitors supporting Thunderbolt or Mini DisplayPort connections (although adapters are available). The cool thing about Thunderbolt is that it can operate in a “daisy-chain” way, meaning that if you have multiple Thunderbolt devices (say 2 monitors), you could operate all devices off just one Thunderbolt port! While not widely supported yet, manufacturers are developing devices with Thunderbolt capabilities.

As you can see in the graph below, using the right technology can greatly increase your performance.

Image Credit: Apple

There we have it, a basic summary of Thunderbolt compared to similar technologies. I hope this was helpful.

To order any products from any of these brands please get in touch!

AOC – Monitors
A-RAM – RAM
ASRock – Motherboards
Astrotek – Cables, Cases, Networking and RAM
Bitfenix – Cables, Cases, Fans & Cooling and RAM
Corsair – Cables, Cases, Fans & Cooling, Hard Drives, RAM and Speakers
Creative – Sound Cards, Speakers and Webcams
Dell – Printers
GeoVision – Surveillance
Gigazone – Cases
Hitachi – Hard Drives
Microlab – Speakers and Headphones
Samsung – Hard Drives and Optical Drives
Shuttle – Computer Systems, Network Storage
Vantec – Cases, Hard Drives and RAM
Vivotek – Surveillance

We hope you find these new brands to your liking. As always, if you’re wanting us to stock a specific brand do let us know as we’re always open to suggestions!

To order any products from any of these brands please get in touch!

Aerocool – Cases, Fans and Power Supplies
Arctic Cooling – CPU Cooling, Laptop Cooling, Graphics Card Cooling, Thermal Grease (yes, Arctic Silver!) and Audio
Cubitek – Cases
Cyborg – Mice (yes, the R.A.T’s!)
Evercool – Chipset Cooling and Hard Drive Cooling
NZXT – Cables, Cases, Case Lighting, CPU Cooling, Laptop Cooling and Fans
Raidmax – Cases and Power Supplies
Razer – Mice
Scythe – Fans

We hope you find these new brands to your liking. As always, if you’re wanting us to stock a specific brand do let us know as we’re always open to suggestions!