Australian Hosting

Australian Server Hosting

Starter Plan ($99)

Good for small business brochure style websites. This package would also do lower end Joomla sites set-up for simple business display.

  • up to 256Mb Storage
  • up to 512Mb Monthly Traffic
  • 5 Mailboxes
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • Unlimited:
    Parked Domains
    Subdomains
    Email Forwarders
Medium Plan ($149)

Good for small business brochure style websites. This package would also do lower end Joomla sites set-up for simple business display.

  • up to 512Mb Storage
  • up to 1GB Monthly Traffic
  • 5 Mailboxes
  • 1 MySQL Database
  • Unlimited:
    Parked Domains
    Subdomains
    Email Forwarders
Regular Plan ($199)

Zen Cart LogoGood for E-Commerce Zen Cart websites. It is a must that your online business stays ONLINE, so make sure you get fast & reliable servers. This package is good for all starting and medium traffic Zen Cart E-Commerce websites.

  • up to 1Gb Storage
  • up to 2Gb Monthly Traffic
  • 25 Mailboxes
  • 10 MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited:
    Parked Domains
    Subdomains
    Email Forwarders
Deluxe Plan ($299)

Joomla LogoGood for high end Joomla (CMS) websites with a lot of video, audio or downloads attached to a high traffic site.

  • up to 4Gb Storage
  • up to 8Gb Monthly Traffic
  • 100 Mailboxes
  • 20 MySQL Databases
  • Unlimited:
    Parked Domains
    Subdomains
    Email Forwarders

Good Points

  • Client Control Panel (Client access to server features)
  • Client can setup & cancel their own email accounts
  • "Fast" server
  • VMware vSphere™ High Availability Servers with Automatic Failover.
  • Redundant DNS Cluster (Geographically dispersed for maximum redundancy)
  • Backup Mail Servers
  • All Web, Database and Primary Mail servers located in Australia (Brisbane)
  • Web server software includes Apache 2.x, PHP 5.x, MySQL 5.x, cPanel 11.x
  • 99.9% Uptime SLA
  • Maintained done in off peak times as not to slow down the server in peak times

Bad Points

  • Storage, Traffic, Databases, Mailboxes limits are low for the price compared to Offshore Hosting

Price: $99 - $299 (annually)

  • Hosting is only available when D.P. Web Design develops your site, it is not a individual sale item.
  • All prices include GST and invoiced yearly from the date development begins.

Australian Hosting & D.P. Web Design

Please note that D.P. Web Design is NOT a hosting company. If your site has been developed by D.P. Web Design and your company does not supply hosting, then D.P. Web Design uses Dhost (www.dhost.com.au) as its Australian hosting supplyer.

D.P. Web Design does not own or maintain any hosting servers. If at any time your website is offline then 95% of the time it is a result of the hosting company.

You are more than welcome & to call D.P. Web Design if your site is offline to get an update on the problem or to check if it can be solved. More than often D.P. Web Design can only translate information relayed from the hosting company.

For Australian Hosting We Use Dhost

Below you can check on the status of Dhost

If you are not happy with using Dhost for your site hosting then you are more than welcome to purchase your own server hosting with a company of your choosing, please make sure the company you choose has the following basic requirements:

  • Databases (MySQL 5.x)
  • PHP 5.x
  • Apache 2.2.x
  • Linux Operating System
  • FTP  Users Access
  • E-Mail Accounts (POP/IMAP/Webmail)