A Domain Name is a vital part of any website. Without the Domain Name, it would be almost impossible to establish and distinguish one website from another. This name alerts and attracts customers to your website by telling them who, where and what your business does. Without a Domain Name, it would be the same as having a store in a shopping centre without any signage.
Once your website is up and running it can be easy to overlook some aspects of the business and you may forget that your Domain Name is a temporary thing. You could one day receive an email and it’s too late, there are a variety of ways this might occur:
If you do not have Auto Renew enabled in your client area your Domain Name could expire without you realizing. Setting up Auto Renew is easily done by logging into the 2025.hosting-australia.com/ client area. To find this option go to Domains, My Domains, Manage Domain and check the Auto Renew for your selected domain.
2025.hosting-australia.com/ will always make sure you are reminded by sending reminder emails to your primary email account before expiration. These can still be missed if these messages are going to your junk/spamfolder. It is important, depending on your mail client, to set reminders and rules, so this does not happen.
It is easy to forget all the sites, services, subscriptions you have tied to a specific card when it has expired or been lost. You could have the auto-renew set up on your account as previously stated but still have a domain expired because your card has expired. 2025.hosting-australia.com/ will get in contact with you via our support ticket system and phone as soon as this problem arises.
You may have registered Domain Names in the past with other providers, this is one of the easiest ways to forget about the renewal of a Domain. It is much easier to make payments, check domain name expirations and manage your Domains if they are all in the same place. You can easily do this by getting in contact with one of our support staff, we will be more than happy to transfer your existing domains over to be managed by us at 2025.hosting-australia.com/.
The best way for your Domain Name not to expire is to do everything in your power to have these safe nets in place, just in case one of these methods fail. Enabling auto-renew, checking your spam, updating your billing information, and having all your Domains managed by the same company.
We understand at 2025.hosting-australia.com/ Domain Names play a crucial part in every business. Therefore our support team is ready and waiting for any of your Domain name needs.
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Important factors to ensure the best hosting are Speed, Support, Security. As your site grows you need to be sure your bigger, more popular website can still load fast and allow all large surges of higher traffic.
Hosting services are available in a wide range of prices ranging from a few dollars a month to thousands of dollars. A small business just getting a web presence, a shared hosting service is the best way to start. This gives you all you need regarding disc space, bandwidth and support. Leaving the support and management to the experts.
Virtual Private Server (VPS) is an open for a business that has outgrown shared services. Maybe you need more space or need to run applications that aren’t available on shared server. However you will need to manage it all yourself. After all a VPS is YOUR server so you are responsible for the running and management of the server and your websites. So a high level of knowledge is required.
Hosting prices can vary from just AU$4 / month up to AU$100 / month. This will depend on your needs and what you get for the plan.
All Hosting Providers offer similar offerings. Web and Email Hosting, Email Only, DNS Hosting. Basic customer service provides access to email, ticket and phone support.
The main difference is in support. Turnaround time on requests, Ticket Response times, Even just answering the phone. Some service providers will offer 24-hour phone support.
Bear in mind hosting support includes,
1. Server Maintenance and support
2. General troubleshooting and advice
3. Domain and hosting related management
4. Service renewals to ensure you don’t lose your domain or your services go offline.
5. Regular backups (used as a last resort for restores if required)
1. Website maintenance
2. Web development or changes to site
3. IT related issues such as fixing your email client, exporting email
However at Hosting Australia we do provide the above support but it will be charged at a reasonable rate. This means you don’t have to go find a developer to fix or maintain your website.
Although the above support isn’t included in the normal hosting package, Hosting Australia can help with development and management with our Managed Services Packages. This allows you to leave it all to us. Your site is managed and updated on a regular basis to keep it all up to date and secure. It also includes changes to content and images as required but does not include design changes.
If you don’t want to use a monthly Managed Services Package then we will still support your site as required but quote on an ad hoc basis to work on the site when you need.
Some plans will include a limit on Bandwidth. This is the amount of traffic coming to your site. Just starting our your site won’t generate a lot of traffic but when it does upgrading your site to a higher level is very easy.
Also your site may be seasonal. If your normal traffic is low but when you have an event and promote it you may find that your traffic suddenly spikes for a few weeks before the event and during. So you will need to allow for this and make sure you have enough bandwidth to handle the traffic. Rather than upgrading your hosting package you may just need to use an Add On package for the period of the event.
Server location is important to a lot of people. Having servers overseas can affect your site speed and even more important support level due to time zones. Hosting Australia staff and servers are all in Australia and fully Australian owned.
There are some hosts that promote a simple web builder to instantly build a “great” site. Companies such as WIX, Weebly among others offer this server. What they don’t mention is that once the site is built it is locked to their servers because you are using their site building software. This doesn’t allow you to move your hosting if you find they don’t provide the support or service you expect. This means you need to build a whole new site just to move away from them.
You most probably will prefer the option to move if you need so a portable hosted CMS is the best way to go and your host can help you with migrating your site and email when you pick a new provider.
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Everyone has heard the dreaded word, hacked. No matter how big or small your website is, it is always at risk of being targeted by hackers. There are many reasons as to why a hacker might target your site. Stealing Sensitive Information and Intellectual Property, holding a site hostage for a price and just for practice or bragging rights.
Common ways to tell if your site has been hacked, being alerted by google or a warning when you go to the site’s domain, unusual email spam. If your site runs into any of these problems, you need to act fast!
There is no excuse not to have antivirus on your devices anymore. With so many great, free antivirus programs such as AVG, Malwarebytes, Avast, Kaspersky so you no longer need to pay a premium for protecting your device.
Using a Firewall is another added protection on top of your antivirus to help prevent malware attacks on your devices.
Update passwords
Update all passwords directly connected to your website, as the hacker maybe be using it to have access to your site. If you need help changing passwords on your hosting services. Send a ticket via our site or call (07) 4914 2433.
Make sure your SSL Certificate is up to date for when your website is back online, leaving this invalid is another way for hackers to access your site.
Not updating your site leaves your site vulnerable to an attack, if you are unable to update it yourself. You need to contact your developer, ask them if they are able to update code, update plugins for your website to increase security.
Hackers use code found in .htaccess to edit your site, tricking users into giving them their private information or access to their devices. It is necessary to find this code and remove it.
Use a backup from a previous version before the attack.
It is important to get in contact with users of your website informing them the site has been compromised, they may need to update their details and not to trust certain emails.
After you have gone through all the steps in restoring and increased your website security, you may have one final steps. That is contacting google. Google will need to review your website before allowing it to be searchable again. There are a few steps you need to go through so the request will be successful, you can find it here.
Our support team is waiting to assist you with any questions you have in increasing your site security or in helping to restore your site from an attack. Send a ticket via our site or call (07) 4914 2433.
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In this day and age there are seemingly infinite free online sources available should you be interested in learning how to code. It has never been easier to pick up than it is now.
One place I recommend is a site called w3schools.com.
It has tonnes of tutorials, guides, quizzes and walkthroughs for all the major styles of code and can quickly assist you in becoming well versed in the fine arts of HTML or JavaScript and many other written languages. Did I mention it was free?
There are also plenty of useful YouTube channels if you’re struggling a bit to teach yourself, Khan Academy has a few channels with endless amounts of informative and detailed videos from the basic level to much more advanced techniques and skills. Their computing channel specific to computer science and code is where you’d find what you’re looking for but their main channel, Khan Academy, covers way more than just that, math, science and economics to name a few things.
If you’re looking for a more engaging style of learning though, codecombat.com is actually a fantasy style RPG game that helps teach code, it’s definitely a more fun way of learning and I’m not going to lie. I spent probably a bit too long playing while testing it out.
In summary, code is all around you and more accessible than ever before. Once you get into it and can begin to let your creative juices flow it’s can be quite fun and fulfilling too, although at times frustrating but we don’t talk about that.
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