Website & Email Hosting

Hosting is a service, which offers a physical location for the storage of web pages, files and emails. Think of a hosting company as a type of landlord; they rent physical space on their servers allowing webpages to be viewed and emails to be sent across the Internet.

Plain English = hosting is the place where your website and emails are stored and it’s also the place that delivers your website to each person who types in your web address into their computer or mobile device, and makes sure your emails get sent and received. Storage and bandwidth/delivery like this cost money.

We offer website and email hosting, and the major advantage of going with us is we handle all the technical stuff for you, from server setup to email creation to content management system installation. Plus any future technical troubleshooting to do with the hosting/server is also provided by us and is free of charge.

Alternatively, you can organize hosting with any other company you like.  We recommend Uber and MediaTemple.  We just won’t be able to assist with the setup or running of this.

Domain registration is the process of buying/securing your website address, eg echimp.com.au.  Website hosting is the system that delivers your website to people.

Yes, you can switch your hosting over to us.  A lot of clients come to us with hosting nightmares, thanks to hosting with small local Australian companies or cheap budget hosts.  When they switch over to our hosting, they find everything suddenly becomes headache-free.

That’s because of two reasons.

1. We host through Media Temple, one of the world’s best hosting companies.  It delivers high quality, business-grade hosting that is reliable, fast and secure.
2. When a client hosts with us we are able to take care of everything for them.  So if you switch over to us we can take care of server side configurations, WordPress installation, email setup and any technical issues that crop up.  We do it all.

IMPORTANT: please also email us that you are switching over so we can make sure the transition goes smoothly.

Hosting is $270 + GST a year.

With this price you get;

1. Super quality hosting, which means you don’t run into uptime, security, speed or technical problems.
2. All the support you need from us – we in fact handle everything to do with your server, so you never need to know anything about hosting/server setup, and this is all included in the yearly price.
3. Professional email addresses @yourdomain, which creates a first class impression when dealing with your clients and suppliers.

It will be charged once a year on your sign up date (ie whatever today’s date is). On your credit card statement / bank account it will show up as “PAYPAL *MYWEBSITE”.  If you ever want to cancel simply contact us with your details and we’ll take care of the rest.  Your cancellation takes effect once the current period finishes.