Affordable Business Web Hosting From NetInvent

If you need hosting support for a business web site, you are on the right page. We provide business web hosting services for web designers and developers. We aim to beat the major ISPs and Australian web hosting companies on price, while offering the same functionality.

Our packages are designed to make sense. You're only paying for facilities that you need: we don't charge every small business for unlimited bandwidth because most small business sites don't consume much bandwidth.

If you haven't decided who will do your web design, then why not read about our web design service?

If you are going to opt for one of our web design packages, then there's no need to study this section: your hosting services will be included as part of the design package.

Introduction to NetInvent Web Hosting

Every Web Hosting account comes with a powerful web based Control Panel. By using our cPanel X Control Panel, you can add or remove email accounts; view web site traffic; password protect your directories, install different scripts, get access to Web Mail and perform many more essential functions.

All hosting accounts have at least the following:

• 99.5% uptime assured.
• Free domain name hosting.
• User friendly control-panel management system, including file manager.
• 24/7 ftp access.
• PHP scripting support.
• Password protected directory facility: easily protect directories that you don't want regular visitors to view.
• Hotlink protection.
• Extensive Site Statistics (with numerous graphical and raw logs).
• Custom Error Pages.
• High speed servers.
• A large library of free support scripts, from blogs and wikis to shopping carts and CMS.
• The option of your own dedicated IP address. (not to be confused with domain name) only required if you need to run SSL.
• Complete email hosting facility with SMTP, POP3 and IMAP.
• Email forwarders, auto responders, and mailing list support.
• Full Web mail access via Horde, SquirrelMail or Neomail.
• SpamAssassin anti-spam system and spam blocking system.
• PGP Key management system.
• Free email support answered during Australian business hours (Monday to Friday).
• 24/7 server maintenance.

We try to keep our pricing system easy to understand. We don't have any hidden small print. Make sure you read our web hosting terms and conditions - they mostly tell you about prohibited activities. They also lay out your legal rights in clear English.

For each package we offer:

• A simple fixed fee per year - our prices are so low that a monthly payment option just doesn't make sense.
• No setup fee and no domain management fee.
• A space limit for data you can store
• A bandwidth limit, which is the maximum amount of data the site can transfer outwards per month.
• An option for a dedicated IP for SSL support, at $90 per year extra.

Email support is free, and is answered during Australian business hours, Monday to Friday. Note that this is not the same support as for our web design clients: web design clients may purchase additional support options.

• You can upgrade your package at any time if you decide you need to.
• There is a $20 administration fee for performing an upgrade.
• You can only downgrade your package once your current package expires.
• Parked domains are alternate names for your main domain.
• Addon domains are arbitrary domain names mapped to a sub-directory of your main domain.

All prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD).

Bronze Web Hosting Package

Designed for a small business site with basic scripting features. The space allowance is more than sufficient for most small business sites that do not need a database or video streams.

This cheap web hosting package gives you PHP and email support; there is no MySQL or SSL facility. A full cPanel X Control Panel management interface is provided.

Silver Web Hosting Package

Designed for an eCommerce site on a budget. There's scripting and database support, and you can install a wide variety of existing PHP scripts or write your own. The space allowance is sufficient to allow substantial product and client databases.

This cheap web hosting package gives you PHP, MySQL and email support. A full cPanel X Control Panel management interface is provided. You may have up to five parked domains and five sub-domains each.

Gold Web Hosting Package

Designed for a large eCommerce site with full scripting and database support. You can install a huge variety of scripts using the Fantastico system. The space allowance is sufficient for large product and client databases and the bandwidth allowance appropriate for a high traffic site.

This affordable web hosting package gives you a large space allowance, PHP, PERL, TCL, Python, MySQL, optional Frontpage extensions and email support. SSL, is available for a small additional charge. Your cPanel X Control Panel management interface gives access to the Fantastico Deluxe installer system and a huge library of scripts, including but not limited to blogs, wikis, bulletin boards, shopping carts and content management systems. You may have up to ten parked domains, ten sub-domains and ten add-on domains each.

Platinum Web Hosting Package

Designed for very high traffic eCommerce sites, this package offers a massive range of features combined with a very large space allowance and large bandwidth allocation. Essentially the same as the Gold service, with the addition of more space and bandwidth allowance, this package stacks up very favourably when compared to the business site hosting offered by the major ISPs.

There's enough space and bandwidth allowance to host streaming video or audio, or to provide direct downloads of software products.

This package gives you a large space allowance, PHP, PERL, TCL, Python, MySQL, optional Frontpage extensions and email support. SSL is available on request for a small additional charge. The cPanel X Control Panel management interface gives access to the Fantastico Deluxe installer system and a huge library of scripts, including but not limited to blogs, wikis, bulletin boards, shopping carts and content management systems. You may have up to ten parked domains, unlimited sub-domains and ten add-on domains.

Compare our prices to typical Business Web Hosting Packages offered by Australian Companies

Compare our Business Hosting prices to the major Australian ISPs:

• You might pay AUD$100 per year for domain name hosting alone.
• For a 100Mb space allowance (the same as our Silver Package) with scripting support, you can expect to pay over AUD$1000 per year - that's more than our Platinum package costs, which offers over 3Gb of space!
• There may also be setup charges of at least $50 involved.
• If a hosting provider offers unlimited bandwidth then the moderate users are likely subsidizing the bandwidth of the excessive users.
• From our experience, a typical small business site is unlikely to see greatly in excess of 10,000 distinct visits per month or transfer more than 1500Mb of bandwidth.
• You can expect a busy eCommerce site to transfer more data than that, as product searches generate more traffic.
• Our packages are designed so that Silver is more than sufficient for a typical small business web site with occasional online sales, and the Gold package is designed for small business eCommerce web sites.
• We are confident you will be happy with our server loading levels, site performance and access speeds.

Most well-constructed sites do not consume huge amounts of bandwidth unless they are extremely popular or serve large amounts of digital media or online product downloads. If your site is popular enough to require more than the 65Gb per month allowance of the Platinum package, we can almost certainly make arrangements to accomodate you at a very reasonable price. We can offer services extending up to multiple dedicated servers per site if need be.

Of course, the major ISPs all promise top quality support. We think our support is good too, though we only answer emails during Australian business hours and not '24/7', the turnaround on support questions is usually rapid. However, our servers are supported 24/7, so you can rely on them to stay up.

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