About AussieHost.com

[Aussie Bob]

My name is Robert Walker, or better known on the net as Aussie Bob. This was a name given to me by a hosting client back in early 2002, and it stuck. I am the CEO/Founder of AussieHost.com PTY LTD (ACN 103 786 796).

I've been in the hosting business since 2001, and have 2 very successful hosting brands under my belt, with AussieHost.com to become the third successful brand.

I started my first hosting company (HTTPme) in 2001, and throughout 2002, 2003 and 2004, successfully built that brand to hosting more than 20,000 domains, for clients from all corners of the globe. In 2004 I sold the company and with the proceeds of the sale, my wife and I purchased a 1/4 acre block with range views, and I, with the help of my Father who is a Builder, personally built the family home - all 550m2 of it!

During the build, in 2005, I then established my second hosting brand, Dotable. The Dotable brand currently hosts more than 15,000 domains, from mainly international clients. Dotable was sold to the UK2Group on the 1st October 2008 as part of our lifestyle change and refocus back to the Australian hosting market, with AussieHost.com.

I have a passion for building online brands, and AussieHost.com represents my focus on the local Aussie hosting market, with servers based inside Australia. You could say the AussieHost.com brand represents my coming back home, into the Australian hosting market, as my previous two hosting brands have catered mostly to non Australian hosting clients, with servers located in US datacenters. AussieHost.com is specifically targeted to Australians, with marketing and servers based from within Australia.

I'm 39 years old, and have been married for 16 years to an amazing lady called Wendy, and we have 6 incredible children, from ages 3 to 15. My my, where does the time go? It feels like just yesterday that we bought our first son home from the hospital, and now there's 5 more, and our 15 yr old son is nearly taller than me!! My family gives me the drive to succeed, in wanting to be the strong and caring father who provides well for his family. Since 2001 the hosting business has allowed me to achieve this, and I am grateful.

AussieHost.com is a home based family business, and not some impersonal mega host behind an untouchable corporate facade. You'll find that in the hosting industry, a very large percentage of hosts operate their businesses from home offices. Technology allows us this freedom, and the dream of working from home, online, has very much become a reality. Hosting is one of those businesses where you have to be available for action 24x7, so working from home offices makes perfect sense for us web hosts. I have been working online from my home office since 1998, and it's a great lifestyle where you can balance work and family quite well. Each morning I make my 20 second commute from the bedroom to the office, via the kitchen.

•Walk the talk, don't talk the talk!

It's so easy to talk the talk, and let's face it, all hosts can talk the talk, but it's another matter to consistently walk the talk, over a long period of time. I have walked that talk, day in, day out, since 2001, serving thousands of satisfied customers over those years.

It was said "do unto others as you would have them do to you". This would be the ethos for AussieHost.com and the basis of how AussieHost.com operates. AussieHost.com customers are treated how I would like to be treated, if I was a customer. I expect honesty and fairness in my dealings, and this is given to AussieHost.com clients. I expect to be communicated with, if there's issues that could effect my sites, so we communicate server issues through the AussieHost.com Announcement forum.

Our philosophy is that hosting should be affordably priced, but not cheap quality hosting. Our overheads are minimal, and we pass those savings on to our customers, with affordable yet sustainable pricing levels.