Founded in an 17 year old's bedroom out of sheer boredom, the business (then known as Alternative Web Services) began with just a handful of hosting and domain name customers, mostly friends and family.
Having taken a job at a local computer store, Michael was able to utilise his position and came to an arrangement to be the stores sole supplier of web site hosting and domain names for it's customers. This partnership proved to be a great success for both businesses as it gave the store new products and services to supply it's customers with the support staff on-site.
Over the years the business slowly gained momentum to reach an active customer base of 438 customers by July 2005.
In July 2005, a Melbourne-based IT company made Michael an offer to help expand his business by way of investment funding, strategic marketing and an office in Melbourne. Michael made the decision to accept the offer, and his days of working for the computer store came to an end.
Over the next three months, Michael engaged in many conversations with his new business partners and developed a three year plan to re-brand, expand and succeed.
In November 2005, Michael announced his business would now go by the name of Jumba, and began to offer some of the best pricing and service in the Australian web hosting industry.
These are some of the businesses milestones:
November 2005 - Successful re-branding and launch of Jumba.
April 2006 - Launch of the Jumba community support forums.
May 2006 - Biggest month on record with over 700 new customers signing up.
July 2006 - Forum reaches 20,000 posts and launch of Jumba Support Wiki.
August 2006 - Recruits customers to form the 'J7' group to help shape the business.
February 2007 - Ranked #25 in the country for number of GTLD domains.
February 2007 - Launch of JACSS.
April 2007 - Launch of Gaming Network.
May 2007 - Launch of Broadband
August 2007 - Merged with Canberra-based AussieHQ Pty Ltd
Here are some stats about our business:
Total Clients: 17,890
Total Domains Hosted: 36,592
Jumba hosts web sites for many of Australia's biggest companies and government departments, including the Victorian Labor Party, Dulux Acratex, Salvation Army's Collaroy Centre, several Toyota Dealers, McDonalds, Public Health Department, Coles Myer and many more.
Jumba also provides free hosting services to a number of popular community web sites including Behind Big Brother and WNA: Wrestling.Net.Au.
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