Business Web Hosting

This is web space that is reserved on our server for your email and hosting account.

• From your control panel you can view and manage your current usage.
• If you start to reach the limit of your web space we will send you an email giving you the option to delete old and unused files, add more space to your existing account or upgrade to our next plan. There is no cost of an upgrade other than the difference in the price of the plans.

This is the amount of data transferred to and from your site. Data transfer is a measurement of all traffic such as when ever someone visits your website or sends you an email.

Need to host a powerful web based application that requires a database? MySQL is the world's largest open source database engine; there are literally thousands of applications such as Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Magento and many more that utilise this database engine.

The worlds most used web hosting control panel. You can use the cPanel control panel to perform a whole range of server related tasks and operations including the ability to:

• Setup & manage email accounts
• Password protect directories
• Manage files via the online file manager
• Create subdomains
• Add databases
• Automatically install a range of web applications with Fantastico
• Much more

Fantastico De Luxe which is integrated into your cPanel control panel gives you the ability to automatically install many web applications. Our fantastico page has a complete list of web applications that are included.

Important Note: Web applications not included in fantastico can still be installed on your hosting account. You will need to download the latest version from the authors website and upload it to your website using an ftp program such as FileZilla. Digital Pacific can install web applications for a nominal fee. See our extended support options for more information.

Learn more about cPanel and Fantastico.

This allows you to create email addresses with your domain name extension, for example if your domain name is www.yourchosendomain.com.au and your name is Lisa you could have an email address like lisa@yourchosendomain.com.au

• This account comes with unlimited email addresses.
• All accounts can be checked via your favorite email client. Below is the list of the most popular clients. More information can be obtained from the program authors website.
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Outlook Express
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • Opera Mail
  • Apple Mail
  • Entourage
  • Eudora
• Receive Email on your Mobile Phone:
  • iPhone
  • Android
  • Blackberry

All accounts can be accessed via web mail using any of the following web based programs which are automatically accessible once your control panel has been set up.

• Horde
• Squirrelmail
• Round Cube Mail

Subdomains allow you to create domains such as http://billing.digitalpacific.com.au and http://ecommerce.digitalpacific.com.au .

Continuous Data Protection - R1Soft is the ultimate backup solution for data protection and disaster recovery.

The R1Soft restore backups application can be accessed via the cPanel control panel. This software allows you to revert back to previous recovery points.

Need to host a powerful web based application that requires a database? MySQL is the world's largest open source database engine; there are literally thousands of applications such as Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Magento and many more that utilise this database engine.

• All versions of MySQL are the latest stable release as released by the OS vendor. Please contact us for more information.

The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a programming language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP is basically used for developing web based software applications.

• All versions of PHP v.5 are the latest stable release as provided by the OS vendor. Please contact us for more information.

Joomla! is an open source content management system used all over the world to power everything from basic to highly complex websites. Joomla! in it's default form can be used as a powerful content management system however, due to the community support following the Joomla! project the complete power of this web application really comes to life through it's database of extensions.

Joomla! is great for powering:

• Corporate websites or portals
• Corporate intranets and extranets
• Online magazines, newspapers, and publications
• E-commerce and online reservations
• Government applications
• Small business websites
• Non-profit and organizational websites
• Community-based portals
• School and church websites
• Personal or family homepages

WordPress is web software you can use to create a website or blog. Built and supported by hundreds of community volunteers and used by over 25 million people worldwide Wordpress has thousands of plugins and themes available to give your website or blog the exact look and feel you’re after.

Drupal is an open source content management platform equipped with a powerful blend of features supporting a variety of websites ranging from personal blogs to large community-driven websites.

Moodle is a Course Management System (CMS), also known as a Learning Management System (LMS) or a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). It is a free web application that educators can use to create effective online learning sites.

phpBB makes it easy to add a powerful discussion group or forum to your website. You can have an unlimited number of forums and categories with full user management, search and moderator capabilities.

phpBB is a free flat-forum bulletin board software solution that can be used to stay in touch with a group of people or it can power your entire website.

Looking to start your own social publishing community? Pligg is an open source CMS (Content Management System) that creates websites where stories are created and voted on by members.

TYPO3 is a user-friendly, intuitive tool, allowing content editors to produce and maintain web pages. TYPO3 is a small to midsize enterprise-class Content Management Framework offering the best of both worlds: out-of-the-box operation with a complete set of standard modules and a clean and sturdy high-performance architecture accomodating virtually every kind of custom solution or extension.

MediaWiki is a free software wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in its MySQL database.

CMS Made Simple provides a fast and easy way to create a professional website and manage its content, whether it's for a small business or a multinational corporation!

phpLD is the most widely used directory script on the internet, installed on over 100,000 websites. phpLD also works well as a blogging or article directory script, allowing both the posting of articles by multiple authors, and commenting by users.

Crafty Syntax allows you to monitor visitors as they are browsing the site and proactively open a chat session with the visitor. You can monitor the web pages that are being visited, chat with multiple clients at once in the same screen, and more.

PHP List is a Web application that implements a personalised mailing list manager or customer relationship management (CRM) system. PHPlist is designed to assist you to stay in touch with your audience, without flooding them with information they don't want. PHPlist is an essential tool for anyone who is serious about creating, capturing and maintaining an offline audience, and will help you increase traffic to your website.

PHPLinks (Linux) allows you to run an extremely efficient Link Farm with full search capabilities. In many ways, this application is like a "simulated" search engine. Other features include: multi-level site categorization, site ratings, link validation, category searching, and search term tracking.

WebCalendar is a PHP-based calendar application that can be configured as a single-user calendar, a multi-user calendar for groups of users, or as an event calendar viewable by visitors.

With Gallery, you can easily manage and display your collections of images on your website. You can organize your pictures into albums, add captions, and create thumbnails. Gallery automatically keeps track of which pictures are most popular, and even lets viewers leave comments!

PHProjekt is a web-based groupware tool which includes calendar, project-management, time-card management, PDA synchronization, email, voting system and personal to-do list management.

XOOPS is a web application platform written in PHP for the MySQL database. Its object orientation makes it an ideal tool for developing small or large community websites, intra company and corporate portals, weblogs and much more.

SugarCRM is designed to helps companies communicate with prospects, share sales information, close deals and keep customers happy.

e107 is a content management system written in PHP and using the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free, totally customisable and in constant development.

Dolphin is the only "all-in-one" software package for creating your own social network, community or dating site without any limits. You have full control, freedom and flexibility.

MODx Revolution is a powerful PHP Content Management Framework that plays nicely with custom code and helps you build sites faster and maintain them with ease.

Content management and portal solution featuring web-based administration, surveys, customizable blocks, modules and themes with multilanguage support.

No matter what your needs, Zikula can provide the solution. Whether it is a corporate presence with ecommerce, a simple blog or a community portal, Zikula can do it all.

A community, content and collaborative management system for building dynamic websites.

PHP Support Tickets is a web-based customer relationship and support solution that allows you to manage customer queries through a ticketing system.

Digital Pacific can power most web applications that are built with PHP and MySQL. If there is an application you would like to run that doesn't appear in the list above you can often find out how the program has been built by visiting the authors website; alternatively, feel free to contact us and we would be more than happy to chase this up for you.

To power a shopping cart you must have an SSL Certificate and an
IP address. An SSL certificate is essential to secure transactions from customers making purchases on your website. SSL Certificates are bound to static IP addresses which is the reason you must have an IP address. Digital Pacific offers SSL Certificates from as little as $69 per year and an IP address for $60 per year. For more information please visit our shopping cart page.

You may be interested in some of the following articles from our blog. We answer some of the most common questions relating to shopping carts.

• The Most Popular Free and Open Source Shopping Carts
• SSL Certicates Explained
• Online Business vs Offline Business
• Internet Payment Gateways for Online Businesses
• Getting your Business Online with Ecommerce

Originally released in 2008, Magento has already had more than 1.5 million downloads, but that’s not hard to believe when the perks of this package include a very streamlined and powerful back-end. They even offer both a free and open source "Community Edition" and a paid "Enterprise Edition" of the software.

We support Magento in shared hosting enviroments however, for optimum performance it is highly recommend to host Magento on a
Virtual Private Server plan.

Zen Cart is a fully open source program released in 2007 as an off-shoot of the osCommerce system. The ecommerce website design program is being developed by a group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

OsCommerce makes for a popular shopping cart system not only because of its free and open source nature, but also because of its out of the box functionality. In addition, there are over 5,900 add-ons that can give the online shop additional features depending on your specific needs alone.

CubeCart , like Magento, provides both a free (version 3) and paid version (version 4) of their shopping cart. Understandably, the paid version boasts added features and capabilities, such as the use of gift vouchers and alternate checkouts. However, both of the carts provide a powerful ecommerce package that manages to keep the HTML and PHP code separate.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

PrestaShop , released in 2007, is an open source and free shopping cart platform for your ecommerce website. This shopping cart is generally good for small to medium sized endeavours.

Digital Pacific can power most web applications that are built with PHP and MySQL. If there is an application you would like to run that doesn't appear in the list above you can often find out how the program has been built by visiting the authors website; alternatively, feel free to contact us and we would be more than happy to chase this up for you.
Please Note: The list below represents some of the more popular programs as requested by our users.

Domain Name Options:

I don't have a domain name.

• Register a new domain name with Digital Pacific.
  • com.au - $34.90 2 Years
  • net.au - $34.90 2 Years
  • .com - $19.90 1 Year
  • .net - $19.90 1 Year
  • .org - $19.90 1 Year

  See our complete list of domain names and prices.

  Using the order now buttom at the top of this page will allow you to register both a domain name and hosting plan.

I already own a domain name.

• You can transfer your domain that you have purchased from another provider to Digital Pacific. Having your domain name and hosting under the billing account is often preffered by our customers.
  OR
• Leave your existing domain name where it is and simply change the name servers. This will leave the billing and management with your existing domain provider however, the domain will be fully operational on our servers.

A complete list of domain extensions and pricing can be found here.

Have more than 1 domain name? With this feature you can have a number of domain names pointing to the same web space. Eg www.joesfood.com.au www.joesfinefood.com.au and www.joesprovodores.com can all go to the same website.

Domain forwarding (also called URL redirection) allows you to redirect web requests for your domain name to a site hosted on a different server (such as the free web space your ISP may provide).

For example if you already have a website such as (http://users.your-isp.net.au/~your-user-name) you will be able to access it via a short domain based URL such as http://www.yourchosendomainname.com.au . More information on Domain Forwarding can be found here.

A mailing list is an email newsletter that is sent out to your customers on a regular basis to keep them informed of what you have on offer. It could be anything from weekly specials to what bands are playing at the pub this weekend.

Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists. Mailman is integrated with cPanel, making it easy for users to manage their accounts and for list owners to administer their lists. Mailman supports built-in archiving, automatic bounce processing, content filtering, digest delivery, spam filters, and more.

All accounts can be accessed via webmail using any of the following web based programs which are automatically accessible once your control panel has been set up.

• Horde
• Squirrelmail
• Round Cube Mail

IMAP stands for Internet Message Access Protocol. It is a method of accessing email messages that are kept on a mail server. In other words, it permits a "client" email program to access remote message stores as if they were local. For example, email stored on an IMAP server can be manipulated from a desktop computer at home, a workstation at the office, and a notebook computer while traveling, without the need to transfer messages or files back and forth between these computers.

• Each email account you create has access to IMAP, you need to configure support for this in your email client.

All accounts have POP3 and SMTP activated, so you can check your email from your preferred email client including Outlook, Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Entourage, Eudora, Apple Mail, Pocket PC, PDA, iPhone, Android, Blackberry or any other POP3 email program.

You can check your email from ANY email client on any computer running any operating system, Windows, Mac, UNIX or Linux.

Common email clients: Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook Express, Entourage and Eudora.

Our state of the art advanced spam filtering system (SpamAssassin) will save you valuable time. Our spam scanning software will stop up to 90% of junk mail destined for your mailbox.

• All email accounts that you set up have spam filtering automatically enabled. The administrator control panel allows you to configure and manage spam filtering options.
• In cPanel each email user has their own control panel for additional email functionality. The user control panel allows you to configure and manage spam filtering options.

Auto Responders allow you to send a message in response to incoming email automatically. Auto Responders can be configured via the control panel.

An application included with cPanel that filters spam by requiring would-be senders to reply to a verification email (also known as challenge-response verification). Only after the sender is verified through the reply will his or her original email be accepted.

• BoxTrapper Blacklist: A list of email addresses from which incoming mail will be automatically blocked. cPanel automatically sends a configurable warning message upon receipt of mail from a blacklisted address.
• BoxTrapper Ignore List: A list of email addresses from which incoming mail will be blocked. cPanel does not send a warning message upon receipt of mail from an ignored address.
• BoxTrapper Whitelist: A list of email addresses from which incoming mail will automatically be accepted.

This feature allows you to automatically forward your email to another address such as a Gmail, Hotmail, Bigpond, Optusnet or Yahoo!. You can use one account to check mail sent to several email addresses.

• The administrator can forward any users email account to another account.
• Each email user can also configure email forwarding themselves from their own user control panel.

If you want to run your own mail server in-house or you have an external mail service. We can alter your MX records and or preferences to your desired choice. Information on how to do this is available via our support pages.

The File Manager is cPanel's built-in web application for managing and manipulating your website's files from your personal computer.

On request we can change and modify any DNS record of your choice.

The SSL and TLS features are intended to make your website more secure. These features generate and manage SSL certificates, signing requests, and keys. This is useful for websites that will use logins and credit card numbers, since information will be sent to and from your website over the Internet as encrypted data versus plain text. This makes it difficult for malicious users to intercept communications between visitors and your website.

• SSL certificates from as little as $69 per year.
• IP Addresses from $60 per year

Note: SSL Certificates are bound to static IP addresses which is why you require an IP address.

Password protecting a directory restricts access to certain parts of your website by requiring visitors to enter a username and a password. This password process is also referred to as a type of "authentication" process.

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. This is the method in which you transfer or upload your website to our servers. You can also set up FTP accounts for other users. Recommended FTP programs:

• FileZilla (Recommended)
• Core FTP
• FireFTP
• Cyberduck

You can use the online server control panel to perform a whole range of server related tasks and operations.

• Add email accounts
• Password protect directories
• Add web based scripts
• Create sub domains
• Add databases
• Manage files via the online file manager
• Much more

You can learn more about the control panel on our support pages.

In cPanel each email user has their own control panel for additional email functionality. From the user control panel the following tasks can be performed:

• Change Passwords
• Email Forwarding / Aliasing
• Auto Responders
• BoxTrapper
• Spam Filtering
• Log into Horde, Squirrelmail or Round Cube Mail to access your email anywhere in the world.

Knowing who visits your website is essential to gauging its effectiveness, and correcting any problems. Choose from any of the following industry leading analysis tools all included in cPanel:

• Webalizer
• AWStats
• Analog

Raw Access Logs allow you to see who has accessed your site without the use of graphs, charts or other graphics. You can use the Raw Access Logs menu to download a zipped version of the server's access log for your site. This can be very useful when you need to see who is accessing your site quickly.

Along with our automated daily R1soft backups you can also create your own backups in real-time before performing a website upgrade.

Backups allow you to download (to your computer) a zipped copy of either you entire site (your home directory, databases, email forwarders configuration, email filters configuration) or one of the previously mentioned parts of your site. These are not automatically scheduled backups. Automatically scheduled backups need to be enabled by the server owner.

You can contact our friendly Australian based support via phone on
1300 MY HOST (694 678).

For phone support operating hours please visit our contact us page.

You can contact our friendly Australian based support via email or by
submitting a ticket to our support centre.

For email support operating hours please visit our contact us page.

Access to our knowledgebase will ensure you have all the answers you need to help guide you through your experience with us.

A unique feature about our support section are our video tutorials that visually show you how to perform certain tasks, whether it be setting up an email account, checking your email, forwarding your email to another account, managing your files via the online control panel or password protecting directories. View Video Tutorials.

You can use .htaccess files to change PHP & Apache values and directives

Cron jobs allow you to automate certain commands or scripts on your site. You can set a command or script to run at a specific time every day, week, etc. For example, you could set a cron job to delete temporary files every week so that your disk space is not being used up by those files.

You can access your web space via SSH. This is only for advanced users and all SSH activity is logged and monitored.

phpMyAdmin is a third-party tool included with cPanel, used for maniuplating MySQL databases over the Internet. Using phpMyAdmin, you can add and drop databases, create, alter, and delete tables, add, edit, and delete fields, execute SQL statements, and manage users, keys, and permissions.

Perl Module Installer

Perl modules are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in Perl. You will need to install a Perl module before you can use it inside a Perl program.

Note: Modules are installed directly from the CPAN repository.

PHP Extensions and Applications Package Installer

PEAR packages are collections of functions that allow you to perform tasks in PHP. You will need to install a PEAR package before you can use it inside a PHP program.

Note: Packages are installed directly from the PHP Extensions and Applications repository (PEAR).

Use of Server Side Includes (SSI) is a way of including the contents of one or more files into a web page.

Frontpage Extensions allow you to publish your site directly from the FrontPage application. This means that you will not have to upload files through FTP.

Zend optimizer is a PHP accelerator which is required by many PHP applications.

ImageMagick is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats.

GD is an open source library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers.

With HTTP streaming media support you can stream multimedia content in a number of standardised formats.

If there is a feature you require that is not here please contact us, we may install certain components on a site by site basis.

Digital Pacific use all high quality Dell hardware, which are the same standard as what the major banks use in Australia.

Our servers have an average of 8GB to 16GB of server grade (EEC) RAM. We proactivley monitor our servers and always upgrade the hardware if we feel a server needs more resources.

RAID refers to a data storage scheme using multiple hard drives to share or replicate data among the drives. With RAID 5 the array continues to operate when one drive fails.

CentOS Enterprise Linux is a world class operating system that larger organisation use for mission-critical / enterprise applications. We feel this operating system is the best for the web hosting environments due to it's flexibility and scalability.

All of our servers include two separate power supply units, each of which is capable of powering the entire system by itself. If there is a failure in one of the units, the other one will seamlessly take over to prevent the loss of power to the server.

We leave plenty of room on each server for projected maximum growth, keeping load to a minimum ensuring the smooth operation of our servers and your site. We proactivley monitor our servers and always upgrade the hardware if we feel a server needs more resources.

Free setup of your hosting account is included in our business plans.

There are no contracts associated with our business plans. When signing up you can choose from four different payment cycles; Monthly, Quarterly, Semi-annually and Annually. Similar to pre-paid plans, our hosting services are non-refundable after 30 days, so please choose your payment plan carefully. For more information please see our 30-day Money Back Guarantee policy. There are no additional costs associated with the unlikely event that you decide to leave Digital Pacific.

We are committed to providing a reliable hosting platform and strive to deliver a 99.99% network uptime guarantee.

We are committed to offering a high quality service to our customers. If you are not satisfied with our web hosting, we will return your money back no questions asked, provided it is within 30 days of a new plan sign up.

* This offer does not apply to domain names or web hosting renewals.

When you sign up for a web hosting account or domain name your Digital Pacific account is set up in real time, getting you onto the web faster.

*Please Note: Payment must be cleared before your hosting account can be activated.

In the billing portal / client area you can view and print past and current invoices, make payments and update account details in real time.

If you feel the need to either upgrade or downgrade your plan you can login to the billing portal / client area and perform this in 3 easy steps.