July has turned out extremely busy for us, which is unusual for the summer period. Over the last few weeks we’ve received a fantastic amount of press in national newspapers, business magazines, and even accepted a business award for some of our new products and management team. Over the last few weeks quite alot of background [...]

We’ve just launched a new offsite network status website to allow clients to monitor service, server or network faults without requiring a helpdesk login. Previously announcements were posted on our helpdesk which made tracking/view updates over complicated, so our new network status website makes the process of getting critical information even easier. The new website [...]

‘Hosting The Main Avent’ The Sunday Life (Jobs Section, Front Page) July 2008 Edition Richard Kennedy is the managing director of Aventure Host, a strategic consultation, design and internet infrastructure provider with over 12,000 customers in 173 countries worldwide. What was your first job? My very first job was working in a local Spar in Belfast. I worked there [...]

Ulster Business Magazine, June 2008 - Aventure Host Northern Ireland has been largely unappealing to investors in the ICT sector during over a generation of violence but with a growing consensus that peace makes better business than conflict, new opportunities are starting to open up. But let’s not forget the sizeable band of local entrepreneurs who [...]

Richard Kennedy (our Managing Director), received ‘Young Business Personality Of The Month’ from Business Eye Magazine sponsored by ESB at the Radisson Hotel in Belfast this month which kicks off the countdown to the UTV Business Awards which are being held in the Culloden Hotel in Northern Ireland on October 2nd 2008. The awards ceremony in [...]

Danielle McDougall (Sales & Marketing) & Michael Kitchen (Business Development) will be at BarCamp Belfast 2008 on June 21st 2008 at Queens University Belfast (Peter Froggatt Centre) from 9am to 5pm, any local customers are more than welcome to drop in and have a chat, the team will be giving away a Micro Server and [...]

Power maintenance previously scheduled for June 23rd, will now be performed on Monday June 16th 2008.  This maintenance will cause around 1 hour of downtime (at the extreme) on our entire network. For most customers this will only be 10-15 minutes, but the very last server for example may be up to 1 hour. During this [...]

The most imporant aspect of any online business, should be an adequate backup solution. Unfortunately as most businesses IT budgets continue to decline, small to medium businesses simply aren’t investing in suitable backup infrastructure resulting in data loss, miss-management of data, compliance failure risking financial fines, loss of customers and loss of potential income. Having a [...]

European customers will now receive a mobile phone text alert (SMS Message) for upcoming renewals, this new system is completely free of charge and will help prevent unnecessary downtime due to late payments. Customers who have recently changed their mobile phone number should contact us through the helpdesk to have their records updated. SMS Messages will [...]

On June 23rd 2008, we will be performing power maintenance which will cause <15-20 minutes of downtime for each server, including dedicated and VPS servers. This maintenance is to improve power consumption and for the installation of new hardware as part of our ongoing service improvement program.