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You can using a sub directory e.g yourdomain.com/mum.
Just make sure in the 'mum' folder you create
an index page and it will work. Sub-directories
are NOT sub-domains.
You can offer your family members email
accounts, however you are not permitted
to sell email accounts to them or anyone
else.
For your domain
name to become visible on the Internet,
you have to inform the main Whois
database where to find your website - a
bit like the Yellow Pages directory. The
DNS
(domain name system) delegation can take
6 - 72 hours to update. If you purchase
your domain name from us, we do it at the
time of purchase and as this saves us time
doing it then, we do not charge you. If
you purchased your domain name elsewhere,
then it is your responsibility as the owner
to inform the domain name registrar where
you purchased the domain name of the name
servers. If this is too difficult for you
to do then we shall do it for you at a cost
of $15.50.
.info domain names take three
days to become visible. When you sign-up
we provide you with the name servers to
give to your registrar.
Yes for existing customers on Windows 2000
server. CDOSYS is supported on Windows 2003.
Yes on the Linux server.
You are permitted anything on your site,
excluding: child pornography, illegal
material, hate material, anti government
material, warez
sites, material that breaches the original
owner's copyright - this includes MP3 music
when you are not the rightful owner. If
you choose to have any of the above on your
website, Website Hosting Australia will
not be held liable for prosecution - you
will be.
Adult content is allowed with all Plan
C & D accounts. We do not offer links
to these types of websites as this website
is classed as family friendly. We also do
not give out this information if you request
it either via email, but we host many of
these types of sites all gaining heavy traffic.
Be aware that high traffic sites, will incur
excess bandwidth
charges.
Linux Plesk control panel:
- Set-up email addresses, auto responders,
email forwarding, email aliases, send
auto-attachments
- Change passwords
- Password protect multiple directories
- Site statistics
- Check disk space, traffic
- MySQL connection
- Send statistical reports
- Access logs
- File manager to upload files via the
browser
- osCommerce shopping cart, Mambo CMS,
Webco CMS, phpBB, BBClone
- Runs latest version of Apache, ProFTD,
MySQL and PHP
- Supports SSL, SSI, PHP, CGI, MySQL,
Perl, MS FrontPage, and Apache ASP
- Use both standard and anonymous FTP
services
- Manage site using FrontPage Web-Admin
View
demo here
Login: demo.sw-soft.com
Password: plesk
Windows Plesk control panel:
- Set-up email addresses, auto responders,
email forwarding, email aliases, send
auto-attachments
- Change passwords
- Password protect directories
- Send statistical reports
- Access logs
- Site stats
- Site preview even when DNS is
not configured
- File manager to upload files via the
browser
- osCommerce shopping cart, Mambo CMS,
Webco CMS, phpBB, BBClone
- Use both standard and anonymous FTP
services
- Check disk space, traffic
- Log rotation
- Support SSI, Suexec, SSL, log files,
CGI-BIN, HTAccess
- Support Horde Web mail (IMP)
- Support multiple MySQL / MSSQL databases
- Support PhpMyAdmin (Web-based MySQL
administration)
- Support ASP.NET Enterprise Manager (Web-based
MS-SQL administration)
- Crontab Management for automated backups
- Manage Anonymous FTP settings
(bandwidth, incoming dir, simultaneous
logins)
- Manage site using FrontPage Web-Admin
View
demo here
Login: demo.plesk.com
Password: plesk
There are many available on the web for
you to install yourself. Also visit Bravenet
for the best free one we have seen. We offer
Webalizer
on Linux and AWStats
and Webalizer on Windows to monitor your
traffic with detailed, graphical reports.
Firstly, it depends on the purpose of your
site. If it is for a company then you should
consider a professionally created site that
is search engine optimised. Otherwise yes
give it a go, but please remember it is
not as easy as it seems. Any web developer
will tell you the many hours spent trying
to correct site problems. We offer web development
services. [READ
MORE]
Netscape has its own section called Composer,
Microsoft has FrontPage plus Word and Macromedia
has Dreamweaver
- all of these and many other WYSIWYG editors
can create HTML
pages that we can host for you. There are
lots of free information on the web about
doing this. We also recommend 'Visual
Quick Start Guides', available from book
stores, newsgroups
full of lots of people willing to help beginners
as well. Your local TAFE also run web courses
for beginners to get you started and do not
forget your local library for books on creating
websites..
It does not matter
what platform you use - PC or a MAC, you
can create and view websites on both.
We do not currently offer real-time credit
card processing direct for you to add to
your website. You should contact your own
bank regarding this to become a merchant.
You can process your
credit card payments (once you are a merchant)
using our ready made form on the shared
secure server to protect your customer's
sensitive details. See
Secure Server.
If you wish to have a custom component(s)
installed for your domain please upload
this to the root of your home directory
as well as any instructions on how to install.
A fee of $5.50 applies for each installation
request.
We do not allow executables
to be run on our servers
as these pose a security risk, it may be
a virus
for all we know. The only files that shall
be executed are perl
and cgi
files. Check with our support team first
to see if your file is permitted.
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Probably the most important question
you should be asking us! Daily
we are complimented on our excellent
customer service - but why? Well the
web is full of companies who have
never been involved in retailing and
really this is all this website is
- our cyber-shop that we conduct just
like a conventional retail business.
It seems it is an industry standard
to give replies to emails in around
48 hours - is this the type of business
you are going to pay for their services?
Would you expect this same treatment
as a customer if you wanted to buy
a new microwave and told to come back
in two days? What if you have problems
with your website? Will you have 48
hours of 'down-time' to wait for your
reply, missing out on sales or important
leads?
Our customer service team are here
for you 7 days a week between the
hours of 8am - 10pm weekdays and 11am
- 8pm weekends (QLD time) to answer
your questions. Send an email to a
web company that says it offers 24
hour support at 2am and see if they
are really there!
What we have done is to set-up this
comprehensive FAQ pages to save you
time contacting us and this is only
one of many available to you when
you sign up! Screen shots for beginners,
movie tutorials, links to other sites
with useful information and our own
favourite links page - something we
have been collecting over the past
six years!
Customer quotes:
'I think the way this site is setup
is brilliant. There are heaps of pointers
and help files everywhere to get you
through most situations.' - Shane
Dormer
'I am very happy with your services.
The Plesk page keeps looking better
and better. I discover services such
as databases for guestbooks etc. Good
value for money. Thanks for this year.-
K.Longhurst
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Access, mySQL, SQL with Plan D. See
plans page for more details. ODBC connections
supported in Windows as well as unlimited
DSN-less connections.
It really depends on the content as images
and photos take up lots more space. If you
have exceeded your disk space you will be
charged an additional $18 per 50 Mb per
month. The average website NEVER exceeds
the allocation.
Yes, anytime this can be done. If you are
getting over your limit, we will email you
and ask you to either remove some files
or pay the invoice or upgrade to a higher
plan.
Short for Domain Name System (or Service),
an Internet service that translates domain
names into IP addresses. Because domain names
are alphabetic, they're easier to remember.
The Internet however, is really based on IP
addresses. Every time you use a domain name,
therefore, a DNS service must translate the
name into the corresponding IP address. For
example, the domain name www.example.com might
translate to 198.105.232.4.
Sub
domains such as something.yourdomain.com
are permitted and available to all Plan
C and D customers at a fee of $33.00 per
sub-domain with the first three FREE.
Web-users can be set-up at $16.50 per web-user
with the first five FREE e.g yourdomain.com/~yourcustomer.
Visit the plans
page to read what features we give you
for free.
Yes you do. We are able to host ALL international
domain names with any extension. Dot com
domain names can be registered up to 10
years. Com.au domain names can only be registered
for periods of 2 years. Some companies try
to get you to pay for more than 2 years
for com.au names - be careful as they will
be holding your money and will renew every
2 years. What happens if they go out of
business? A com.au name cannot be renewed
any sooner than 90 days before it expires.
Be careful of companies sending letters
to you direct such as Net Register/Web Register/Open
Your Mind (same company!), asking for you
to renew (even if your name is not set to
expire) - check the price and compare to
our price, more than likely almost twice
the price.
Go
to the registration page. We will do
it all for you, without any fuss. All
names are registered in your name - not
ours. Our hosting packages do not come
with name registration - this is an additional
cost, however we do discount .com.au names
if ordered with hosting.
Any domain name. If you have a com.au name
already registered you will need your registry
key/authInfo so the hosting can be set
up. If you have let your domain name
expire, it cannot be renewed until it is
released by ICANN. This can take weeks to
months to occur - be warned!
You can register ANY domain name
and extension you like. An org.au name however
requires you to be a non-profit organisation
and com.au and net.au names have to at least
own an ABN. You do not have to register
your name through us, for us to host it.
A
domain pointer is a second domain that points
to the exact same site as your original
domain. It cannot point to a subdirectory
within your domain or to a different home
or index page. If you require a second domain
to point to a different home or index page
then you need to sign up for a second account.
Domain
pointers are very useful if you own for
example yourname.com and yourname.net. They
are also very useful if you are simply parking
any domain you own. We charge $22.00 per
name, per hosting year that is redirected.
Once you purchase
a hosting plan, your domain pointer can
have one email account.
e.g info@yourpointername.com
You can use any shopping cart you like.
We offer via Plesk, osCommerce with Plan
D accounts. There are many third party carts
on the Internet that you can upload to our
servers. We do not offer any support for
shopping carts. Please direct your question
to an appropriate newsgroup or the author
of the application.
Each shopping cart
is written in some type of code. Before
you purchase hosting, make sure you know
which platform you should be hosted on or
the cart may not work.
Of course you can! Depending on the plan
chosen it is up to you what they will be
e.g. you@yourdomain.com, info@yourdomain.com,
webmaster@yourdomain.com.
You can have your email go straight to
Outlook Express, redirect to your ISP
account or redirect to your Hotmail account.
All email can be viewed on our web based
email service as well.
Each POP3
address has its' own mail box with an allocation
of 10Mb of space on the mail server. Please
note that unlimited email addresses does
not mean 'free for all'. SMTP email is also
available if you do not have an ISP.
Webmail is
available with Plans C and D. View the samples
for Webmail on Linux
- Username: test and Password: sample
OR
Windows - Username: test Password:
sample
Catchall account
can also be set-up to ensure all email whether
correctly or incorrectly addressed is received.
Please be aware this leaves yourself open
to thousands of nasty Spam emails!
Yes you can from $79.00 per year plus domain
name registration costs if applicable. Just
complete a hosting order. When it is time
to have a website, we deduct the amount
paid for unused months from your new order.
We give you a PHP form to upload to your
website at no extra charge. We have created
two sample forms for you to easily customise.
All very simple to use.
Frontpage
Extensions are a set of server-side
applications that enable you to incorporate
the following advanced features without
having to write the complex server-side
programs typically required.
- Collaborate simultaneously with other
users on the same web site
- Create a web page directly on a web server
- Save directly to a web server when using
Office programs
Include these FrontPage components on your
sites:
link bars, top 10 lists, form handlers,
discussions, full text searches, hit counters,
and categories.
You are able to upload direct
to our server using FTP
or allow the extensions to upload for you
through FrontPage. We now support 98, 2000
& 2002 extensions. There is no extra
charge for these extensions to be installed
on your website. Currently we do not support
SharePoint Team Services on our servers
and hence any operations requiring these
services shall not work.
FrontPage is a WYSIWYG
editor just like Macromedia
Dreamweaver. We support both of these
applications but do not offer the software
- this you must purchase yourself.
FrontPage Express is a lighter version
of FrontPage and is suitable for very basic
websites.
File
Transfer Protocol. This is the way you
get your files to the servers to be hosted.
Go to CuteFTP
to get the program to allow you to FTP or
WS FTP - http://www.ipswitch.com
. Visit
here for FTP programs to download. We
do not offer free support on helping you
to FTP - this is your responsibility as
the webmaster to know how to do this. If
you do not, then we suggest you spend time
reading your FTP program Help Files. For
those of you using a MAC, you can FTP using
Fetch.
You have 24 hour access to FTP and you
are no charged to upload your files. When
you connect to your site via your own ISP
dialup account, you will see a folder (or
folders for FrontPage users) already in
the remote folder - this is where you upload
to. Each time you make changes to your site,
you need to upload these updated pages.
You can upload via the browser through
the Linux Plesk control panel.
As soon as you receive your set-up email.
We certainly do, anywhere in Australia.
For any computer application, we have qualified
trainers to help you at your home or workplace.
Contact
us for more details.
This is assuming that all you have done
is made a decision to get a web site.
- Decide on a domain name - yourname.com
- Register your domain name with us before
someone else does - we set up the name
servers for free!
- Decide on the content
- Either create pages yourself, or purchase
one of our ready made sites
- Have logo designed - Website Hosting
Australia!
- Purchase images
- Proof read for spelling errors
- Check all links are working
- Organise hosting with us - this is where
your site will be placed
- Assign the DNS
with the domain name registrar if you
did not purchase from us
- Wait a few hours
- Upload to server - we give you the details
- Test site performance, links are working
- Submit to search engines or you will
not be found
- Keep track of your site stats via the
control panel for marketing purposes
You can use ANY HTML editor to create
your pages, such as Microsoft FrontPage,
Word, Macromedia Dreamweaver to name a few
of the better known applications.
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When you do place your order this
is the process -
1. Complete the order form and submit
2. If you are NOT paying by credit
card, make payment using one of the
payment options on the order form.
3. Email us when you have made a non-credit
card payment
4. Tax Invoice will be sent when payment
is visible to our account and cleared
and within 7 working days
5. Hosting and domain name (if required)
is ordered and set-up
6. Set-up details with full instructions
will be emailed to you - DO NOT DELETE
THIS EMAIL as you will need to refer
back to it in the future!
7. FTP your website to the server
This process usually occurs within
1 to 24 hour period.
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Boy do we get asked this one lots! None!
Nothing! Zilch! What is listed on this site
is what you pay for. So as an example, sign
up for Plan A, pay two months, decide you
want to go annual to save money then pay
the balance which is only $77.00.
Easy! Just complete the online order form.
Even if you are with another host, it is
only a matter of changing the Whois registry
(DNS),
then upload your site to our servers - that
easy! You do not even have to inform your
old host you are moving unless they are
direct billing your credit card so they
do not remove the payment.
We will set your account up on our servers
within 1-24 hours. The DNS propagation throughout
the Internet can take anywhere from 6 -
72 hours. We cannot speed up the propagation
process, so please do not ask. You can upload
direct to the server whilst you wait for
your domain name to propagate and site visibility
to occur.
Interactive Media P/L is a registered company
since 1999. ABN: 75 092 528 017.
Mail lists are available on Linux with Plan
D hosting using Mojo Dada software at no
extra charge. Please feel free to test
it out here. The password is: enter.
Please be aware that this is for public
use and settings can be changed by anyone
so check all settings before using.
Once in, add your own email address
under the Manage Subscribers section, then
send yourself an email, newsletter etc.
All we ask is that you do not change the
main password so others can use as well.
Remember to remove your own email address
once finished.
For more information on Dada Mail,
read
the documentation from the script author.
We allow 2000 emails per list to be sent.
Mail lists can easily be imported into Dada
Mail.
The Australian Government made changes to
the Australian laws in December of 2001.
Where a company with a turnover less than
$3,000,000 does not have to comply with
the legislation, we have adopted our own
policy on this
page. You can read more about the changes
here on this government site: http://www.privacy.gov.au
Yes we can. Please let us know your server
IP address at time of ordering.
See
Forms here.
Any language is supported.
We offer credit card payments (Visa, Mastercard,
Bankcard only) on our secure page to protect
your sensitive details. You can also make
a direct Internet bank payment, direct branch
deposit or via money order. Please be aware
that if you choose to pay by cheque (the
least cost effective way), there will be
a delay of seven days to set-up your account
whilst we are waiting for your payment to
be cleared. If you want your site in a hurry,
go direct to a Westpac branch and make the
deposit to save time and notify us that
you have made the direct payment. All prices
are in Australian dollars and GST inclusive.
Credit card - processed same day
Internet/branch deposit - Westpac
next day, other banks a delay of 4 days
Bank Cheque/Postal Order- takes around
7 days to receive, clear & process order
We do offer monthly and annual plans. Monthly
plans can only be paid via credit card.
Go to the order form to read more about
ordering options.
You are welcome to use any script that you
want. However some scripts use way too much
of the CPU.
If this is the case we will contact you
and request that you make changes so that
we can maintain a fast server for everyone.
Please note that any support for your own
scripts should either be directed to the
author of the script or the appropriate
newsgroup.
We do not support the use of setuid
CGIs.
PHP4
has been installed and is now supported
on all servers.
This is sent to you or your agent who purchased
the domain name on your behalf. It is like
an ATM PIN, and protects people from using
your domain name. Due to the changes implemented
on 01/07/2002, the registry key is now known
as your domain password or AuthInfo. Get
your AuthInfo
here for all .au names.
Please
use this form here. You renew either
or both on this one form. Please be aware
that you are required to renew your domain
a minimum of 7 days before the name expires
to avoid the name being blocked for 45 days
as an expired domain name.
Yes you can, but first you must sign up
for Plan C annual payment, under any name
you like. Start your own business, without
the cost of purchasing the hardware! When
your customer asks you a question, first
check the detailed FAQ page (you should
make sure you too have a detailed FAQ page
just like this - but NOT the same ©),
then if you cannot find the answer, forward
the email to us. We then reply to YOUR email
and you then reply to YOUR customer.
Our hosting is unbranded so your
customers do not know who your wholesaler
is. We can set-up an affordable site for
you to get you up and running in 36 hours
- similar to this one for only $795.00.
That includes all the pages you need, FAQs,
online order forms - a small investment
for your new online business.
We do not offer any further discounts for
hosting, so please do not ask. Our prices
are more than competitive and we cannot
possibly go any lower than we currently
do. After you purchase Plan C annually paid,
any customer is entitled to purchase at
the discounted price of $110.00 per year
for Linux hosting and $165.00 for W2003
hosting - no extra or hidden charges. We
do not bulk bill nor allow monthly accounts
for resellers - you pay as you order. When
it is time to renew, we send out a renewal
notice, then you inform your customer. It
is important to note that all support is
via the reseller and NOT your customer,
so please do not ask your customer to contact
us direct, as they will be referred back
to you.
Resellers get full access to all unbranded
Linux support pages so they can load into
the frames of their own website. Once you
purchase your first resold account, email
us and you will be sent the links and logon
details.
Pages include -
Plesk control panel video tutorials
Outlook set-up video tutorial
How to assign the DNS with Melbourne IT
Advanced FAQs
We will keep all these pages updated to
reflect any changes. Any reseller who purchases
more than three resold accounts will be
given the right to use our support pages,
colour coded to match their own website
to load into their own site.
Website Hosting Australia as a public Internet
provider does not censor legal web content
in any way. However we do charge sites that
transfer more than 2GB per month and adult
sites quite often fall into this category.
We do have restrictions to some sites so
please take the time to read the fine
print here. Adult content sites are
purchased under Plan C and D only.
The usual way, by typing the address in
the top location/address bar. To come up
in search engine results, you need to submit
your site to the search engines.
We have set-up your domain name
so that you do not have to use www - e.g
http://websitehostingaustralia.com.au
<-- click to test! It does also work
with the www as well.
You can if you purchase Plan D. You have
the choice of a sub-domain e.g yourcustomer.yourdomain.com
at $33.00 per sub-domain or as a web-user
e.g yourdomain.com/~your customer at $16.50
per web-user.
Nothing with Plans B, C and D! Other companies
will charge you for this. Just upload only
the pages that require encryption. We use
the highest form of encryption - 128 bit
to protect confidential details being sent
via email forms as a shared certificate.
You can purchase your own certificate direct
from us for only $66.00 per year. You also
require a unique IP address if you use your
own certificate. Just inform us you require
this setup and we will do it for you.
Of course! You may decide to sell just like
you sell a business. The new owner must
abide to all the Conditions of Use or the
site will be terminated. Just inform us
of the new owner's details.
As at 15/06/2004 we are not charging set-up
or admin fees.
Orders received will be setup within 1 -
24 hours. Propagation throughout the Internet
may take longer to make your site visible.
We do not give priority to any customers
- in other words, each customer is just
as important as the next! In a world where
we are all in a hurry, we cannot speed up
the process, so please do not ask us to
get your site up and running any quicker.
On average a new domain should be
working within 24 hours.
This is the process:
Whenever you make a dns change at your registrar,
that registrar usually submits that change
to one of 13 main frames on the net. This
happens every hour. Then, all across the
world, all ISPs will download a dns "cache"
from one of these 13 main frames and update
their own database. The time it takes all
ISPs to download that cache is known as
propagation. It can take hours or even days
depending on the ISPs.
Each registrar has their own way
to transfer the delegation. AUNIC for Australian
domain names requires you to provide your
registry key. This protects you from having
your domain transferred without your permission.
It does make transferring the name a little
difficult and time consuming if you have
misplaced your 'key'.
24 hours a day, 7 days a week via FTP. We
offer multiple logons to FTP.
We support Server Side Includes (SSI). You
may use any script in the manner. The only
restriction is that you must name your page
anyname.shtml. shtml tells the server that
the page may contain exec tags that need
to be run. SSI is not supported on html
pages.
You can access your own site logs which
will give you this information when you
sign-up via the Plesk control panel. We
also offer Webalizer on Linux and AWStats
on Windows. Our stats pages are very detailed
and will help with the marketing of your
website. Sample
here.
As we are a web based business, email is
the quickest way for us to respond to your
hosting questions. This support is free
and comes with your hosting. We do not offer
telephone support, or we will have to increase
our hosting charges. We have tried to automate
the process as much as possible to save
you time and money! Our email response time
is very quick - we always surprise our customers
with quick replies, so test us out and send
us an email! Staff are available to you
8am - 10pm weekdays and 11am - 8pm weekends
and 11am - 4pm public holidays, 7 days a
week. Server tech support team work 24 hours
a day to ensure server downtime is always
kept to a minimum.
Please be aware, for the security
of our customers, we only send the set-up
details and passwords to email addresses
given on the order form. If you are not
listed, please contact the domain owner
to seek permission. Please refer to your
set-up email for the log on details for
all support pages.
We do not allow Telnet
access as it has proven to be a security
risk. Be assured however, this simply means
that your files and site are safer from
hackers than they would otherwise be. For
the same reason we don't offer any UNIX
shell
access. You can still CHMOD
files via your FTP client.
To cancel your account you must email us
and we will send a confirmation cancellation
email to you for security purposes. We do
not give refunds for any unused time, unless
we have breached our uptime guarantee. Monthly
accounts must give 48 hours BEFORE the hosting
due date or you will be charged for the
following month.
You will be charged $25 per 1GB used (sold
in 1 GB lots), per monthly bandwidth
excess. Only high traffic sites fall into
this category and the average website, never
exceeds the allocation.
Well this is determined by the type of site,
and is difficult to really say how many
hits your site will get. Your bandwidth
allocation should be more than enough. Traffic
means visitors to your website. You are
not charged to upload or to download from
your own site. The allocation of 1Gb is
equal to 20,000 page views in one month
- HUGE! If you are getting this many hits,
you are doing extremely well and should
be making money from your site and excess
charge would not be an issue. If you are
not making money, yet getting this much
traffic, you really need to re-evaluate
your site and consider at least affiliate
marketing via banner advertising to bring
in some revenue.
Yes you can, however it must be done BEFORE
your name expires. Just complete the domain
name order form, then we will be the transfer
process in action. This process is not quick,
so if you already have your domain hosted,
transfer the domain name first to us, then
the hosting AFTER the transfer of domain
registration goes through to avoid any down
time.
We do not have to host your website
to register your domain name. We do not
charge you any additional fees to make the
transfer either, other than the 2 year registration
fee!
If you are already hosted elsewhere
and want to move your site, just complete
the hosting order form. Once you assign
the DNS then all you have to do is upload
your files to our server.
Yes you can. If you are wanting to use your
own certificate then you will require a unique
IP address.
Well not to us! Maybe to your designer,
but you have free access to the server to
make any changes necessary to your website.
Yes, our speciality. Just tell us your requirements
and we will send you a quote. We also offer
ready-to-go designs for those on a tight
budget.
Connectivity
The data centre utilises connections to
multiple backbones to ensure that data rea
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