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Web Merchants uses 4 servers.

1. Websites are hosted on a dedicated server based at the Data Centre in Auckland. This is connected to Chorus’s fibre network, which guarantees lightning fast website load times NZ wide.

2. Emails are hosted in Perth Australia and generally have a 4 – 8 second delay between sending & receiving an email due to the distance between your computer and the server in Perth.

3. Weekly website backups are stored on a server in San Fransisco, USA

4. A backup virtual private server in Sydney is on standby should a disaster hit the primary Auckland data centre.

For those who like the finer details, this method cannot not be mixed or switched as hosting a website in Perth or San Fran would dramatically slow down website load times. When it comes to website page speed the hosting server has to be as close to your customer as possible.

The Benefit to separating the servers is that in the event of an earthquake, natural disaster, power outage etc. Services can be redeployed to different locations so your businesses website & emails are never down.

Benefit from our streamlined migration software, its quick and free to migrate from your old host to us, we will even deal with them so there is no awkward “oh its been great but were going to a new provider” phone call.

Very Fast Indeed. The website server is located at the data centre on Queen St, AKL which is part of the NZ internet peering exchange. The server info is commercially sensitive, but I can say I use the latest technology and update hardware every 24 months (following Moores law). Benefit from 6 years of trial and error to achieve the fastest page speed.

Benefit from a Wordpress specialist. You cannot be a “jack of all trades” in our industry, there is just too much website software. This is why we exclusively use WordPress to ensure we are specialists in our trade.

If you have a Joomla, Magento or Drupal website we can refer you to another agency.

Benefit from no contracts, cancel anytime if you are unsatisfied. We don’t even require 30 days notice. Any overpayment will be refunded pro-rata to the closest day.

We bill you for our management fee to place, bid & maintain the ads on Google. 

Google will bill you directly for the cost of the ads every 30 days (pay per click). We do not take any commission or spread from Google’s ads. Benefit from complete price transparency.

Web Merchants owner, Nick Kane, has primary ownership in 2 other businesses smashedit.co.nz & gmt12.co.nz, which rely on 70% & 100% of digital leads respectively to generate revenue, therefore Nicks focus is three-fold to be at the absolute forefront of digital marketing.