Paid Hosting
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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:
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?
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.
Web Hosting
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.
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
