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	<description>The ramblings and revelations of an Australian Web Host</description>
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		<title>The Great Divide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to beat around the bush here: what&#8217;s with the constant bickering between web hosts? It seems that choosing a web host is like choosing a religion &#8211; what gives guys? We&#8217;re all friends here.
We should all throw a big web-host party and have a few drinks together &#8211; like the crew from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Chilling Out and Going Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a computer room air conditioning system that switches between cooling types based on environmental conditions, using ambient air when wet-bulb temperature is below a predefined threshold, substantially reducing the amount of electricity used to cool the datacentre facility &#8211; well, I imagined exactly that a few months ago and our datacentre greening strategy is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=117</link>
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		<title>The Sceneic Route</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we ran out of capacity in our datacentre today. It&#8217;s not that we don&#8217;t have enough power, or space &#8211; our growth over the past few months (both Chombo and SONET) has meant that we&#8217;ve actually run out of carriage to our datacentre!
Our DC is served by an Optus SDH feed, terminated on an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Under old management.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[﻿Starting a business is a lot like starting a family. Months of speculation as to whether it&#8217;s a &#8220;good idea&#8221; are proceeded by years of hard work, late nights and ridiculous amounts of risk &#8211; but you do it anyway, because ultimately, the reward far outweighs the temporary inconvenience. At least in theory.
As the father [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Welcome, Robbie.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please welcome the newest member of our team, we call him Robbie. You can speak to Robbie by calling us on 1300 678 699, and he&#8217;ll automatically answer your call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He doesn&#8217;t get much time off, mainly because he&#8217;s our new IVR recorded by superstar Robbie McGregor.
We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Learning Curves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The transition from SONET&#8217;s Chombo to my Chombo has been difficult in a few different ways. It&#8217;s been difficult for me because running a hosting company is not something I&#8217;ve done before (I think this is a good thing, I&#8217;ll explain why in a minute), and because the staff we have also have to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=68</link>
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		<title>Like all things organic, things evolve.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of our customers are probably wondering what our &#8220;new position&#8221; is on things since we &#8220;passed the baton&#8221; so to speak. So let&#8217;s look over something that was written by Curtis when he was Managing Director and my views on it:
&#8220;The reliance on promotions to generate new leads is not congruent with the type [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=50</link>
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		<title>Changes, Competition.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Change
As most of you are aware by now, Chombo was recently acquired off its previous owner (Curtis Bayne), who had decided he&#8217;d like to focus on the other sides of his business and let Chombo go on its own and continue to evolve. To be honest, I think this was a brave and responsible decision. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Leader of the Pack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the delay in updates &#8211; it&#8217;s been a hectic few months and the following post will most likely provide some insight as to why.
How do you define a value added proposition in an industry whereby there is little, if anything to differentiate between you and your competitors? Sure, the ridiculous data allowances helped (but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Like all things organic, growth should be natural.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to make a confession &#8211; I&#8217;m a hippy. I think the paradigm shift towards greener thinking is a significant step forward for ecological sustainability, but surprisingly, this isn&#8217;t what this post is about.
Natural progression is a concept which can be applied not only to the organic world, but also to business process and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.chombo.com.au/?p=17</link>
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