Toby Creative utilises co-location and private virtual server technologies based in Malaga, Western Australia to provide our clients with top-tier dependable, scalable, fast and cost-efficient local hosting. Hosting locally has a number of key benefits when compared to using major national and international hosting providers.
Key Benefits
- Customer support in your time zone. 8:30am to 5:00pm WST GMT+8
- Fast response time for local users
- Positive location sentiment for local search engine optimisation (Local SEO)
Features
All our hosting packages come with the following standard features that will save you heart-ache in the long run.
- Daily backups, stored for 2 weeks on-site, rotated off-site
- Multiple internet connections for redundancy
- Clustered servers, if one server goes down, another instantly takes its place
- Included email services with unlimited accounts, *email data amount depends on plan
- Email forwarding and spam filtering systems
- Physical security including biometric access controls, ensuring that unauthorised people do not have physical access to your website and your data
- Fire retardation systems, protecting the servers in case of fire
- Power backup systems, solar power and diesel generators, ensures highest level of up-time
- Subdirectory subdomains. i.e. portal.yourdomain.com.au
- Fail2Ban. This locks out attempted brute-force attacks against your website, that is when someone attempts to guess your passwords, after three attempts they are locked out for 15 minutes. This significantly reduces the chances that an attacker can gain access to your website
- Apache2 OR NGINX
- MySQL with phpMyAdmin for database administration
- DNS Hosting with management panel for custom DNS entries (office365, google apps etc.)
The following optional features can be added to any of our hosting plans.
- Extra storage space, for emails or for your website
- CMS Management. We take care of all updates to WordPress core and plugins, scan periodically for malware and monitor overall website security
- Domain forwarding. Take an existing domain and forward the website and emails to another domain.
Linux Hosting Plans
Professional
This is our entry level plan, recommended for small websites (around 5-10 pages without video or large amount of PDF documents etc.)
Inclusions
- 500MB Storage space for website
- 2GB Storage space for emails
- 50GB of bandwidth per month (up and down)
- Unlimited email addresses
- Spam filtering and email forwarding
- Subdirectory subdomains
- Members panel for monitoring website usage statistics, adding email addresses, configuring DNS etc.
- 8:30am to 5:00pm support by email or phone
- Daily backups
Cost: $190 ex GST per annum
Advanced
This is our mid-level plan, recommended for the majority of websites.
Inclusions
- 1GB Storage space for website
- 4GB Storage space for emails
- 100GB of bandwidth per month (up and down)
- Unlimited email addresses
- Spam filtering and email forwarding
- Subdirectory subdomains
- Members panel for monitoring website usage statistics, adding email addresses, configuring DNS etc.
- 8:30am to 5:00pm support by email or phone
- Daily backups
Cost: $270 ex GST per annum
Complete
This is our high-level plan, recommended for larger websites that do not require their own private server.
Inclusions
- 3GB Storage space for website
- 10GB Storage space for emails
- 200GB of bandwidth per month (up and down)
- Unlimited email addresses
- Spam filtering and email forwarding
- Subdirectory subdomains
- Members panel for monitoring website usage statistics, adding email addresses, configuring DNS etc.
- 8:30am to 5:00pm support by email or phone
- Daily backups
Cost: $380 ex GST per annum
CMS Maintenance
We recommend this for all of our WordPress customers. Out of date WordPress and plugins are the number one cause of hacked websites. Once your website is hacked, it may be defaced, damaging your brand, or it may host malware which will drastically impact your search engine rankings. It’s best to have peace of mind and keep everything up to date BEFORE dealing with what may be a damaging and costly undertaking of cleaning up a hacked website.
Inclusions
- Weekly updates of WordPress core and plugins
- Malware/virus scans
Cost: $250 ex GST per annum. For custom built websites, contact us for a quote. (link to contact us page)
SSL Certificates
Any website that has data entry forms, be it a contact form, a sign-up form, a newsletter form requires an SSL certificate otherwise it will be marked as unsecure by the users browser and will face a search engine ranking detriment. This is particularly important for websites that accept payment such as e-commerce websites, and in many instances is a requirement for payment platforms to operate.
Cost: $80 ex GST per annum.
We also offer Extended Validation (EV SSL) certificates for larger businesses, costs vary as there are multiple types of EV SSL certificates, so contact us for a quote.
Additional Storage Space
Additional storage space or quota can be added to any of our packages to meet your needs. This can reduce costs compared to jumping up to the next plan if say you do not need the additional email storage space, or conversely you need additional email storage space but do not need additional web storage space offered by the higher plan.
- 500MB Additional Space – $50 ex GST per annum
- 1,000MB Additional Space – $90 ex GST per annum
Other Extras
Domain pointing/mirroring – $40 ex GST per annum
DNS Hosting only – $40 ex GST per annum
Unique IP Address – $72 ex GST per annum
Domain Name Registration (.com, .com.au, .net, .net.au) – $40 ex GST per annum