You have built your own website, and now you need somewhere to launch it onto the great oceans of the internet. A reliable web hosting service is exactly what you need, so learn from our experience and use what we use to inform the world about all things Out of Site.

So you want to create your own shop front on the internet? You are going to need somewhere to store that eye catching and informative website so that everyone can see it. Out of Site offers 3 different levels of web hosting catering to a range of needs. However, before deciding which level of hosting you want, we have explained some of the terms below so you know what you are getting.

Disk Space

The physical memory space provided to store your web pages. It needs to be the right size to hold the text, images, PDF files, sound files, movies etc that you want your customers to see and to download from your site.

Data Transfer

The monthly limit on the amount of information your customers can access from your site. The size you need will depend on the size of the content on your website and the number of visits you are likely to have. Remember that even simple viewing of your webpages by a prospective customer requires them to download information from your site. However, our packages will allow thousands of downloads per month for the average customer.

Sub-Domains

Subdomains are commonly used by organisations that wish to assign a unique name to a particular department, function, or service related to the organisation. For example, "mail.thingamyjig.com.au" and "calendar.thingamyjig.com.au" are subdomains of "thingamyjig.com.au". You might like something as simple as a test website as a place for the ongoing development of your main website, or you might assign levels of security to subdomains to allow access to specialist content that you only share with your staff or clients.

Park Domains

Domain parking is simply the practice of holding registered domain names (eg www.thingamyjig.com or www.thingamyjig.net) without assigning them to any services or website. This would most often be used by you to prevent others from acquiring and using a domain name that is similar to your trademark or website domain name (cybersquatting), or to help direct traffic from variants of your trade name to your website.

cPanel®

This is a web-based application that provides a control panel to manage your domain through a web interface. It gives you the ability to manage e-mail, files, backup, website statistics, password protection, and many other advanced features. The idea is to give you a high level of control and responsibility for managing your own web site.