Hosting

What Is Hosting?

A website is just a collection of small files consisting of HTML pages, pictures, audio, video and much more, much like a bunch of linking word documents. All these files link together and make what is your web site.

The main setup, navigation and pictures that make up a basic site can usually fit on a the old 3.5" floppy disk (remember them?... Nope! well then let's say a small UBS drive). Now because of ADSL Broadband connections in almost every house websites can afford to be larger in size and have more interactive content.

worldThe files that can consume a lot of hard disk space and traffic are:

  • Audio (.mp3 & .wav files)
  • Video (.mpeg & .avi)
  • Pictures (large/high resolution pictures and databases)
  • PDF Documents

An Internet hosting serviceis a company that has their computers connected to the Internet 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Think of these computers as real estate and you rent the space needed to house your business (the afore mentioned website files).

D.P. Web Design can help you work out how much hosting space (mega bites) you'll need for your site.

Select a hosting package that suits you below or from the menu to the right.

There is a lot of hosting options out there and depending on your site & you budget will detirmin what sort of hosting you will require. Talk to D.P. Web Design for hosting to suit your needs.

D.P. Web Design offers the following hosting options

Offshore Hosting

Standard Hosting ($132)

  • No MB Storage Restrictions
  • No Bandwidth / Monthly Traffic Restrictions
  • No Email Account / Mailbox Restrictions
  • No MySQL Database Restrictions

Q: Why would I choose hosting in Australia over Offshore Hosting?

A: It would depend on the purpose of your website, Offshore hosting is inexpensive for what you get, and because of this their servers can and usually get overloaded and go down more than more expensive restricted hosting either overseas or in Australia. This would not be good if your business was only internet based like an E-Commerce Shopping Cart site. The 5 to 10 minutes and in worst cases, hours a server is down is costing your business valuable sales and frustrating new & regular customers.

However if your site is more of an "About Us" & contact information brochure style then the cost vs. server overload risk is worth it.

    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

    B.Y.O. Hosting

    Yes you are more than welcome to source and use your own hosting with D.P. Web Design. The only downside to this is that "We know our servers and their Administration Panels and what they can & can't do". We can work with them fast therefore saving you money, so depending on your hosting company and what software versions they run & what restrictions they have on their servers we may have to problem solve unknown errors therefore adding to the overall bill.