Merlot Digital

Merlot Digital Supported from Regional Australia, we are your family-owned Partner in Digital. With Technical Account Management you're always well looked after!

Here to empower you and your clients online, with industry-leading Linux-only Managed Web Hosting solutions.

We're at NEXTDC S2 this weekend commissioning a new Corporate and Internet Radio machine, that will also take over Email...
21/09/2025

We're at NEXTDC S2 this weekend commissioning a new Corporate and Internet Radio machine, that will also take over Email Filtering workloads.

https://the.uptime.business/issues/68cf8071f4e01e20d571405b

This finalises our move to Intel Xeon Gold as well as RAID1 NVMe-backed hypervisor storage across all-of-business. From there, this also gives TNC access to locally-hosted GPU capacity for internal AI/LLM development!

Managed VPS for our clients are *not* impacted by these works, as those machines were overhauled in late 2024 already to the Dell C6620 platform.

Did you know that we run SHOUTcast Australia, and have done for over half a decade? https://shoutcast.com.au/ We power s...
02/09/2025

Did you know that we run SHOUTcast Australia, and have done for over half a decade? https://shoutcast.com.au/

We power stations like Cairns FM, 2MBS Fine Music Sydney and beyond - including the likes of Swinburne University, TAFE, etc.

Focusing on reliability and flexibility through simple yet powerful systems, our radio station clients are empowered 24/7/365. 🎀

Exciting news! IPv6 has beendeployed. πŸŽ‰This has taken a lot of behind-the-scenes work, including having cPanel fix their...
09/03/2025

Exciting news! IPv6 has beendeployed. πŸŽ‰

This has taken a lot of behind-the-scenes work, including having cPanel fix their implementation of the protocol so it works nicely.

That final fix is released, so we've been able to give clients and their end clients IPv6 AAAA records that are unique per-site.

ft. AI's perspective of IPv6 on the internet, pictured below.

https://blog.apnic.net/2025/05/21/cpanels-ipv6-overhaul/

G'day,It's been a silent year on social media, and a busy year for major works - and not just our re-brand! Systems & op...
29/11/2024

G'day,

It's been a silent year on social media, and a busy year for major works - and not just our re-brand! Systems & operations too. :-)

Changelog/Verbose: https://changelog.tnc.tools
Uptime/Advisories: https://the.uptime.business

Looking forward to a ripper 2025 with our phenomenal clients.

Cheers,
Luke, Em & the crew

πŸ“¨ Stats about our optional Email Filters in November 2023:100,000+ emails processed in the month.3.7 second average proc...
04/12/2023

πŸ“¨ Stats about our optional Email Filters in November 2023:

100,000+ emails processed in the month.
3.7 second average processing time.
>60% of inbound mail was SPAM!
0 identified outbreaks of viruses.

These systems are only used by a small number of domains within our systems, as many don't leverage it, or use 365, etc.

With the rise of AI, we're seeing an increase in spam rates. Be vigilant into 2024, and educate your end clients all the same.

What makes a business unique? It's up to them!(turning our tech jargon machine off for this post)For us, it's about rema...
28/06/2023

What makes a business unique? It's up to them!

(turning our tech jargon machine off for this post)

For us, it's about remaining true-to-purpose, going above and beyond for clients, and maintaining raw honesty whether it's good news or bad. We're not a fan of FIFO Clients, ones who aren't in it for the long haul - we're about strong partnerships. Doing the right thing well and honestly is more than half of it.

All going well, kookaburras will live for around 20 years and will have the same mate for life. Once you find someone, some business, anything that sings your song - add them to your flock if it's a fit. Good people make for good business. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί

Optical Fibre is as quick as you'll get with your Hosting Servers, which is why we take it all the way from "street-to-s...
18/04/2023

Optical Fibre is as quick as you'll get with your Hosting Servers, which is why we take it all the way from "street-to-server", meaning from the broader internet right into our hypervisors is 100% fibre-fed. This removes the copper "weakest link" and keeps latency/ping times low 24/7/365.

Our routers are fed by redundant fibre feeds which take diverse cable pathways out of our primary data centre (NEXTDC S2 - Tier IV) in case of issues underground. From there we pass redundant feeds down to our stacked switching layer, and onto the hypervisors from there. 🌐

If you'd like more technical info, we're always happy to get geeky!

https://leopard.host/fully-managed-cpanel-vps

To lovers of NGINX and all things high-performance-hosting, the TNC Toolbox for WP has been approved onto WP.org! πŸŽ‰Initi...
11/04/2023

To lovers of NGINX and all things high-performance-hosting, the TNC Toolbox for WP has been approved onto WP.org! πŸŽ‰

Initially this gives you the ability to purge the EA-NGINX User Cache, as well as disable/enable NGINX Caching for each user, all from the comfort of each WordPress installation. This makes it easier for your business, but it's more so for your end clients.

There's also a deployment script available on GitHub to assist with bulk deployments server-wide to save your valuable time.

We'd love to get feedback and expand its functionality - please get in touch, or raise a PR/Issue on the repo. Thank you!

WP.org: https://wordpress.org/plugins/tnc-toolbox/
Repo: https://github.com/LEOPARD-host/TNC-Toolbox-for-WordPress

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Charlestown, NSW
2290

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Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm

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