Paid Hosting

What is Exetel Paid Hosting Service?

The Exetel Paid Hosting Service provides low cost hosting with high availability. The servers provide all of the features required for a professional small/medium business site. You will need to pay a once only set up fee and an annual hosting fee to get this service.

Visit http://www.exetel.com.au/w_web_hosting.php for more information.

Services we provide:

• Domain Name Registration

• Domain Name Hosting

• Web Hosting

• Email Hosting

Customer can have all these services above with us (it's easier to manage to have all services with one provider), or they can choose only have one or some services with us.

Domain Name Registration

What is Domain Name Registration?

This is the process of taking ownership of a Domain name. Registrations are processed by dozens of registrars approved by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Our supplier is TPP Internet and everything related to domain name registration, such as Registration order, domain name transfer order...etc are forwarded to them.

Once you registered a domain, you can nominate a name server to hold the DNS records for this domain. Whoever is inquiring this domain will be directed to the name server you nominated for more information and then you will need to have this domain hosted on name server you nominated, otherwise it will just return nothing (DNS hosting will be explained in the next section).

Domain Name Hosting

What is Domain Name Hosting?

Domain name hosting (AU $ 20 per annum) is a service to store DNS records for a domain.

e.g.: when someone query where is www.example.com, they will get www.example.com -> eXeTeL web server.

What is a Zone file?

It's the file defining what's in a domain name, what result will be sent to the user who is querying this domain. It's like a map includes all the paths between a domain and all the resources this domain is using.

One example zone file is attached below:

$ttl 11400		;time to live, the default expiration time of a resource record without its own TTL value 
@       IN      SOA     ns1.exetel.com.au. postmaster.exetel.com.au. (
                        200512200	; serial number
                        10800		; slave refresh
                        3600		; slave retry time in case of an issue
                        304800		; slave expiration time
                        11400 )		; minimum caching time in case of failed lookups
                NS      ns1.exetel.com.au.		; ns1.exetel.com.au is the nameserver for example.com.au
                NS      ns2.exetel.com.au.		; ns2.exetel.com.au is the backup nameserver for example.com.au
                MX      10      ipmx1.po.exetel.com.au.	; ipmx1.po.exetel.com.au is the mailserver for example.com.au
                MX      20      ipmx2.po.exetel.com.au.	; ipmx2.po.exetel.com.au is the mailserver for example.com.au
www	A	220.233.0.22				;ip address for "www.example.com.au"
www2	CNAME	vh1.web.exetel.com.au			;www2.example.com.au is an alias for "vh1.web.exetel.com.au"

In member facility, zone file above will be displayed as below:

How long does it take to activate the paid website hosting service?

It's instantly done, once you've applied through the exetel website all details will be sent to you. However, it’s required that you have setup the domain name registration/domain hosting correctly. If MySQL database needed to be created please email hosting@exetel.com.au