Hosting

Your website is a collection of files that must be run on a web server - a computer that is available on the internet, 24/7.

Traditionally, you would hire a computer from a datacentre, and serve your website from it. Many web development companies still use this method.

However, this traditional approach has some disadvantages:

• Limited capacity, if your site was too busy
• Wasted capacity, if your site was mostly quiet
• Inflexible when you need to grow
• Single-point-of-failure
• Relatively expensive

Cloud Computing

Enter Cloud Computing - where your server is virtualised, and hosted on a fabric of physical machines across several datacentres. No longer is there a single point-of-failure, a fixed-sized server, or wastage of resources. The efficiency and reliability gains are so significant that the cost of hosting can be brought down significantly - a win for customers on every measure.

We use Cloud Hosting provider, Joyent’s SmartMachines to provide super high-reliability shared hosting for all of our sites. This gives us the flexibility to host our clients’ websites with excellent uptime on failure-resistant infrastructure at competitive pricing.

Pricing

For all Mini Websites, Standard Websites and Web Applications, hosting starts at $49.95/mo.

If your website requires particularly large amounts of bandwidth, diskspace, or memory, there may be additional costs which we will discuss with you in advance.

What Else Do I Need?

For a typical website project you will also need the following things:

• Your Domain Name (e.g., “example.com.au”)
• Website Hosting (a place for the website to live)
• Email Hosting (for email addresses that belong to your Domain Name)
• Basic Internet Marketing (e.g., is your site registered on Google?)
• Basic Ongoing Security & Maintenance

We offer all of these services together, which lets us take the pain out of getting you online!