PrimePixel Web Services was, until recently, the best-kept secret in web solutions. As a consumer of web services fed up with the glut of "promise everything, charge nothing" (and do nothing) hosts, we decided the old maxim "if you want something done properly, do it yourself" was a true pearl of wisdom.

The company now known as PrimePixel has been in business for 27 years , 25 of those in IT, technology and communications, and has always been a leader in its field. PrimePixel's directors include the founder of the first Australian-content PC magazine (before the release of the IBM PC) and a specialist in software development, OS optimisation and hardware configuration who has trained thousands of corporate IT staff in public seminars throughout Australia, Asia and Europe.

We were actively involved in FidoNet, a worldwide collection of message-exchanging bulletin boards that started on floppy disks and 300 baud modems and peaked at more than 30,000 linked systems before the Internet was available to the public. A PrimePixel director was elected as the first-ever non-US International Coordinator, the head of FidoNet.

We've been involved in the Internet since those days, when we adventurously pioneered the "tunneling" of FidoNet content via academic institutions with pre-web internet connnectivity. We have used the net in our business and research since those early days.

We set up our own hosting facility more than six years ago. Before long we were providing hosting to clients and friends, and we've spent nearly five years operating as the "hidden host", serving our own multi-site requirements and delivering private services to select design studios and web developers. Now PrimePixel's premium and super-reliable domain, email and web hosting services are available to the public.

PrimePixel Web Services addresses every concern we've ever had with other hosts, and provides the sort of business - and traveller - friendly features we would have paid double for (if we could find them).