Web Hosting in the simplest terms is parking your website on the internet. An even similar way to think of it is, purchasing a car park in a building complex. Having a valet take your car(website) and park it in a car space (allocated server space). Once your website is made available on the internet, it can be accessed by other computers connected to the internet.
Web hosts such as 2025.hosting-australia.com/ rent out their services and technologies to host websites on the internet. Once the hosting company hosts your website, users can access it by typing in your domain name in their web browser. When this domain name is typed into the user’s browser this connects the computer to a server your website is hosted on. The server then sends back files that are stored on the server to the user’s computer and displays it on your web browser.
Adding JavaScript is the perfect option if you wish to add an array of extra elements to your WordPress website. you can do this without Javascript by installing multiple plugins, but doing this will cause the headache and issues of having to manage them all and also the risk of slowing down your website.
The interesting thing about JavaScript is that it is a coding language that instead of running on your server, within the file manager on your cPanel, it runs on the user’s browser. This allows you to adjust your website without the fear of your website loading times being affected.
WordPress will allow you to add JavaScript it, but it can just be a bit touch-and-go as WordPress does not allow you to add JavaScript code snippet directly into your page. If you attempt to add the code onto the page, there is a good chance WordPress will delete it when you have saved your edits. This will cause confusion and frustration when your site no longer works.
We will be covering in this article the easiest and most effective way you can add JavaScript to your website. But first, we need to cover what a script is.
So, you can understand JavaScript even more than just adding it, it is important to cover what a script even is. A script is a pre-made code language that developers and designers use to perform specific actions.
There are multiple different coding languages for writing scripts all with their own syntax’s, these are the most commonly used languages:
Adding a script using the JavaScript language your website will allow you to add various things to your website, for example:
So, how do you add JavaScript onto your page? There are two easy methods, let's go over them now.
To use this method for adding JavaScript code to your whole website, the best option is to download the Insert Headers and Footers plugin.
You can edit and add JavaScript code to your WordPress theme’s header.php or footer.php files within your file manager via cPanel. However, you must also keep in mind that if you do edit your theme files, every time you update your theme, WordPress will override the code deleting your edits.
Using Insert Headers and Footers plugin is an easy workaround for this problem. Even if you update your theme, your headers and footers code will stay put if you use the plugin.
Once you have added the changes to your header or footer, you will see your changes site-wide, even if you update your WordPress theme, this plugin will save your JavaScript code information, keeping your JavaScript changes active.
If you do not just want your JavaScript to be displayed on your headers and footers, but instead add it to a post or page. You will want to install the Code Embed plugin.
Below you will find the steps for adding JavaScript using Code Embed plugin:
You may have noticed that the majority of the emails you receive from companies have their own @domainname part of the email address. This is because these businesses have set up their own business email address. Rather than a user receiving an email from a random free gmail.com/hotmail.com account.
This is extremely important, so your business looks professional for the user.
A business email is an email address banded in a way that makes clear it comes from a business and communicates what business it comes from. In Practice, that usually means it is an email address that has been set up with a company’s domain name.
You may have hosting and other services with us here at 2025.hosting-australia.com/, but not realize you are able to have multiple email accounts within that hosting account. There are multiple benefits of having a business email address, here are just some few of the major benefits:
If you are sending emails to users for a business, but these emails are coming from johnsmith@gmai.com. Your recipients will see the email address and not making the connection with the business no matter the subject, line leading them to and gloss passed it and send it to junk.
This helps remind current/future clients of your website/business by having your domain name being sent or displayed, making easier access for the user to your website.
Professionalism and recognizability go hand and hand, 69% of people say who an email comes from is a big part of whether they decide to open it.
You will need to register your new business’s domain; this is the URL users will type into their browser to reach your website. It is important to remember to keep your domain short and to the point. For example, if you have a business John Smith’s Landscaping supplies. It will be difficult/frustrating for users to type johnsmithslandscapingsupplies.com.au. Therefore, it is important to think of the domain name as a good brand tool as well.
Register your new domain name HERE!
To access the tools required to create an email address for your domain, you need to have your hosting set up as well. This is also a major part not in just setting up your business email, but also necessary for your website to be online.
Find the right hosting plan for you HERE!
First, you will need to have access to your cPanel. If you are not sure how to access your cPanel, CLICK HERE.
On the cPanel home page. From the main page in cPanel, click the Email Accounts link. this can be found under the Email header.
On the Email Accounts page. Select Create.
Fill out the information and adjust the setting needed.
You can create as many new email accounts as your hosting plan allows.
We have also created this helpful how-to video to help assist you in creating an email account.
After everything that has happened in 2020, its time to leave it in the past. Make 2021 the year for your website/business to rise above the rest, but increasing your website web traffic also allows unwanted attention.
So it is important to make sure you have the best security in place for your WordPress.
WordPress has prebuilt security features to help protect your website, but you want to always make sure you take that security even further, you will want to utilize a security plugin. This gives you access to additional features that WordPress does not provide, including:
You can get by without having these plugins installed, but you would not want to risk your business’ building, so why you would not want to risk your business’ website. Its as easy as a one-click install, to improve your security. Here at 2025.hosting-australia.com/, we have found the top 5 WordPress security plugins to protect your website against unwanted attacks.
Wordfence includes an endpoint firewall and malware scanner that is built from the ground up to protect WordPress. Their Threat Defense Feed arms Wordfence with the newest firewall rules, malware signatures and malicious IP addresses it needs to keep your website safe. Rounded out by 2FA and a suite of additional features, Wordfence is the most comprehensive WordPress security.
Download the free version or install the Pro
All in One WordPress Security plugin is designed and written by experts and is easy to use and understand. It is built to reduce security risks by checking for vulnerabilities, by implementing and enforcing the latest recommended WordPress security practices and techniques. All in One WordPress Security also uses an unprecedented security points grading system to measure how well you are protecting your site based on the security features you have activated.
Download the free version
The Sucuri Security WordPress plugin is free to all WordPress users. It is a security suite meant to complement your existing security posture. It offers its users a set of security features for their website.
Download the free version or install the Pro version.
SecuPress is a GDPR-compliant plugin that protects your WordPress site with malware scans, firewalls, and security alerts. Its intuitive interface makes it incredibly easy to set up.
SecuPress features include:
Download the free version or install the Pro version.
iThemes Security gives you over 30+ ways to secure and protect your WordPress site. iTheme Security will help repair common WordPress vulnerabilities, stop automated attacks, and strengthen user credentials. With all great WordPress plugins, there is also a Pro Version, which includes access to two-factor authentication, malware scan scheduling, and password expiration. WordPress Brute Force Protection.
Download the free version or install the Pro version.
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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This field specifies the DNS name, also known as the owner name, to which the RR belongs.
This field is a 2-byte value that specifies the type of resource that is defined in the source record
Time to live in seconds. The amount of time the record can be cached. If a TTL 3600 means the record will update every hour.
This defines the protocol family for the record such as A, MX, SRV, TXT.
A, or Address record, is the most used record type. This record allows you to map a domain name to an IP address of the hosting domain. For example, to visit 2025.hosting-australia.com/, you go to the URL www.hosting-australia.com. At our nameserver, there is an A record that points to the IP address 151.139.128.10. this means that a request from your browser to www.hosting-australia.com is directed to the server with the IP address 151.139.128.10.
You can also include multiple A records for the same domain to provide redundancy and fallbacks. Additionally, multiple names could point to the same address, in which case each would have it own A record pointing to that same IP address.
A Canonical Name Record is more commonly known as the CNAME record. Is used to redirect from one domain name to another automatically. For example, if you wanted store.yourdomain.com to automatically redirect to your Shopify, you can add the CNAME record example below.
A TXT record allows you to add text data into your DNS records. A common use is ownership verification. To prove you own the domain, a provider may require you to add a TXT record with a particular value to your domain.
MX stands for mail exchange. The MX record points to the domain, not an IP address. Without the MX record, the domain will not receive mail. MX record points to the mail server that should be used to deliver mail from a domain using SMTP.
SRV record helps with service discovery, for example, SRV records are used in internet telephony (Voice over IP) to define where a (Session Initiation Protocol) SIP service may be found. An SRV record typically defines a symbolic name and the transport protocol used a part of the domain name. it defines the priority, weight, port, and target for the service in the record content.
SPF record is a Sender Policy Framework record. It is used to indicate to mail exchanges which the host are authorized to send mail for the domain. The SPF record is typically defined using the TXT record type. You should always have at least the TXT record definition present, even if you use the SPF type.
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Not only does Mozilla help you to browse the internet with Firefox but it also helps you to receive emails with there email client Thunderbird. Mozilla Thunderbird is also supported by Windows, Linux and MAC. Thunderbird runs on Gecko which is a browser engine developed by Mozilla. This allows a simple easy to use interface with customizable themes, extensions, and add-ons.
Warns you when you click on a link which appears to be taking you to a different website than the one indicated by the URL in the message.
Allows experienced developers and security experts to help improve and create third party add-ons.
Lets you filter your emails fast by typing in words in the search box, they are displayed instantly.
Easily manage multiple emails by opening tabs rather than windows just like using the Firefox Browser.
Manage multiple email accounts by combining special folders like your Inbox, sent, or Archive folder.
eM Client allows you to access your emails just like any other client. You do not need to log into eM Client through your browser, it requires a simple download and set up. One of eM Clients calling cards is that it is easy to set up. Unlike other email clients that can be confusing to configure, eM client’s setup is straight forward for two or more mail accounts.
Em Client’s will connect to any email servers such as your 2025.hosting-australia.com/ Exchange or personal hosted email.
Import your previously set up emails from other clients when you do choose to change clients.
Multiple different available including the popular Dark theme.
Built-in translation tools and spell-checker.
MailspringMailspring is an open-source email client just like Thunderbird. This allows a large community of contributors or programmers with varying coding abilities to provide add-ons and source code for features they want to add to the base program. It offers a host of features, including link tracking, quick search, customizable themes and layouts, and many others.
Mailspring indexes your mail so you can use advanced, Gmail-style search queries and search message contents across all your connected accounts. Never lose an email again.
Mailspring's signature editor makes it easy to create custom signatures, complete with images and links to social media profiles.
Using a single inbox for all your email accounts helps you get more done in less time. Mailspring supports every major mail provider—Gmail, iCloud, Office 365, Outlook.com, Yahoo!, and IMAP/SMTP
When you receive invitations to events via email, Mailspring displays the event information and allows you to RSVP without leaving your mailbox!
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.
You may have read our recent blogpost What Is SEO, if you haven’t had a chance, check it out HERE!
There are tools that can assist you in improving your SEO to be a step above the rest. You may have searched SEO in the WordPress plugin manager and had seen the hundreds of plugins, but not sure which one to choose. Here at 2025.hosting-australia.com/, we know your time is valuable, so we have put together our top SEO WordPress plugins.
Everyone’s site will grow larger and larger within time; it gets harder to keep up and constantly check whether your links are valid. The name of this plugin is exactly what it does. Broken Link Checker plugin checks for broken links on your website and alerts you if it finds any that require to be updated. This plugin is free so there is no reason not to have this plugin, sitting in your back pocket, it may pick up a link or two other plugins won't.
Schema adds Google Rich Snippets and markup according to Schema.org guidelines to structure your site for SEO. Schema has more than 35 schema types such as Blog Posting, News article, Local Business, Webpage, Article, Recipes, Product, and video objects.
This allows you to easily pick an auto developed Schema for your site. Other features include Conditional Display. meaning it will include or exclude any posts, pages, post types, taxonomies and more. The ability to import data from other schema plugins such as the others mentioned in this article. Display your business google reviews and its schema markup on your website.
Being a new plugin, Rank Math has taken parts from other SEO plugins and included it in the one. Rank math integrates with Google Search Console, which helps get the essential information you need to boost your SEO game.
With 15 built-in modules, you can enable and configure based on your requirements, it runs a detailed SEO analysis to identify issues based on 30 known factors. Check your ranking against other similar websites with the in-built Rank Tracker, and Import Schema Markup from other websites.
Rank Math also offers a Pro version with increasing your keyword tracking from 500 to 1,000, unlimited personal websites, Powerful Schema Generator with 24/7 support.
Yoast SEO has been branded as one of WordPress’ top SEO Plugins. With over 27,278 5-star views and 5+ Million Active Installations, it is hard not to look past it. Yoast analyzes the optimization of your site and gives you improvement advice. It displays the current problems, what you need to improve, and what you are doing correctly. This takes the guesswork out of what your site is missing when it comes to SEO. This tool also helps you adjust the title or meta descriptions and making your content more relevant for your keywords.
If you’re not on a tight budget and can afford to buy the premium version of Yoast, you will get 24-hour support and extensions such as News SEO, Video SEO, Local SEO and WooCommerce SEO extensions.
Plugins are your best friends when it comes to WordPress, being free as well, they give you the freedom to explore and experiment in improving your websites.
If you have any issues or queries, please contact our support team on (07) 4914 2433 or open a ticket via our website.
