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).

How do I register a Domain Name?

1. Go to Members Facilities area.

2. Click Manage Services – Hosting Services option.

3. Select the Order/ Manage Domain option.

4. Click the Order Domain Registration link at the top of the page.

5. Enter a keyword and select a proper domain name to check the domain availability.

6.Available domains will be displayed in a table. If you are not satisfied with the search results, you can always recheck the available domains by keep on searching with different keywords.

7. If you find a proper domain for your web site, then order by clicking the Order button.

8. Fill the Order form with necessary details -> Click the Confirm button.

9. Click the Submit button if you are agree to debit the relevant fee to your credit card or bank account.

10. Click the Print button if you need to print the order form.

Note:

To register for a '.com.au' and '.net.au' domain you need to have a Registered company name with ABN/ACN/RBN.

Details of other '.au' domains is available on:

http://www.auda.org.au/policies/au-domains

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:

Can I order Domain Hosting with Exetel if my domain is not registered with Exetel?

If customer's domain is not registered with us and they want to have this domain hosted by us, they will need to contact current registrar of their domain to change name server to:

220.233.0.1 ns1.exetel.com.au

220.233.0.2 ns2.exetel.com.au

Reverse Domain Hosting

Reverse Domain name hosting option can be used to delegate your IP to a hostname.

e.g.: 220.233.0.22 -> vh1.web.exetel.com.au

PTR record: PTR record is used to return the hostname of an IP address.

a PTR record to define (220.233.0.22 -> vh1.web.exetel.com.au) is attached below:

22.0.233.220.in-addr.arpa. 43200 IN	PTR	vh1.web.exetel.com.au.

How do I Order Domain Hosting?

1. Go to Members Facilities area.

2. Click Manage Services – Hosting Services option.

3. Select the Order/ Manage Domain option.

4. Click the Order Domain Hosting link at the top of the page.

5. Fill the Order form with necessary details -> Tick the radio button for option Yes, if you are agree to debit the relevant fee to your credit card or bank account.

6.Click the Confirm Order button.

How to Order Reverse Domain Hosting?

1. Go to Members Facilities area.

2. Click Manage Services – Hosting Services option.

3. Select the Order/ Manage Domain option.

4. Click the Order Reverse Domain Hosting link at the top of the page.

5. Fill the Order form with necessary details -> Click the Order Confirm button.

6. Click the Submit Order button if you are agree to debit the relevant fee to your credit card or bank account.

7. Click the Print Order button to print the order form.

Web Hosting

Web Hosting

You can manage the Web Hosting through the user friendly web interface available in the Member Facilities area and start uploading the files to our web server via FTP (File Transfer Protocol).

MYSQL database will be created on request and phpMyAdmin (interface for MYSQL database management) is installed on: https://vh1.web.exetel.com.au/mydbadmin You will need to have the following services to use this service:

• Domain name registration
• Domain name hosting
• Web site hosting

Currently web server running Apache 2.2.9 (Debian) + php 5.2.6 + mysql 5.0.51

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

Email Hosting

Primary Email Hosting Services

This will provides email service for a specific domain and outgoing/incoming emails will be sent/received through our mail servers. Mailbox size is 100Mb for each email address. A Spam filter will be provided as an additional service charging AU $ 2 for each email address per month.

Secondary Email Hosting Services

The Secondary Email hosting is an email backup service that will back up emails for your given domain. In case the Primary email server malfunctioned all the emails will be stored in our backup email server and backup email server will push the original emails back to the primary mail server once it is start functioning as usual.