Services

Web Hosting

We provide hosting as a service to our clients who may not have a preferred hosting provider or are not totally happy with the service they are currently being provided. The hosting servers webRefresh uses run Linux and Apache webserver and are based in Canberra, Australia. We have researched the market in the interests of our clients and believe that the servers we use provide reliable, cost-effective, quality services.

All hosting plans include:

subdomain/s
database/s
webMail
catch-all mailbox
autoresponders
eMail forwards and aliases
CGI-Bin
modperl for Apache GCC/G++ compilers
PHP4 and PHP5
24x7 FTP access
shared or exclusive (for an extra charge) SSL
password-protected directories
detailed site statistics
Server Side Includes
FrontPage Server Extensions (if absolutely necessary!).

On all plans we provide technical support, network monitoring, daily backups, domain registration assistance and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

We can host any registered domain on the servers. If you are currently hosted by another provider we can assist you with the transfer of your domain to take up any of our plans.

The plans can be customised. If you would like to discuss the plans in more detail with us, please use the Contact Us form or refer to our contact details for other means of contacting us.

Hosting:	Basic	Standard	Extra	Premium
Disk Space	20 MB	100 MB	300 MB	1000 MB
Data transfer per month	1000 MB	1500 MB	3000 MB	5000 MB
eMail Accounts	2	10	unlimited	unlimited
Sub-Domains	1	5	unlimited	unlimited
MySQL Databases	1	3	6	10
Price per year	$228	$348	$468	$588
Design & Development:
Please contact us. It is impossible to estimate the cost of developing your website until we have established your requirements.

Note:
All prices are quoted in Australian Dollars (AUD).
All prices are free of GST.
Payment for all plans is for 12 months and is payable in advance.
A 30-day money back guarantee applies.
A 5% discount applies if payment is received before the annual Due Date.
Requested additional traffic usage is charged at $5.00 per 100MB per month.
Requested additional drive space usage is charged at $5.00 per 100MB per month.
If you exceed your quota for traffic usage or disk space usage we will suggest you upgrade to a higher plan. If you exceed your allowance and choose not to upgrade the stated additional charges will apply, ie. $5.00 per 100MB of traffic usage or disk space excess.
Our terms and conditions apply.

News

Testimonials: Read comments from some of our clients.

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Netscape dies. Now owned by AOL, the company has said the browser will no longer be supported after 1st March 2008.

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January internet statistics.

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Microsoft and Eolas have settled their patent dispute and Microsoft can remove the "click to activate" mechanism in Internet Explorer.

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Windows XP SP3 should be released early in 2008, according to the Microsoft Windows Service Pack Road Map. With the slow takeup of Vista and the extension of the support lifecycle of XP through 2008 it makes sense to upgrade.

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Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat have jointly announced a Linux desktop system aimed at small to medium businesses.

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Last year the OpenDocument Format (ODF) was approved by the ISO as the international standard for office data.

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Microsoft has suffered a setback in its endeavour for Office Open XML (OOXML) to become an alternative to OpenDocument Format (ODF) as a standard of the INCITS.

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Philips manufactured the first CD 25 years ago (17/8/82). Playtime was extended from a planned 60 mins to 74 so that Beethoven's Ninth Symphony could fit on one CD.

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Google is developing Google Apps in Australia including several that are not yet announced.

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Mozilla Firefox is an excellent browser and a serious alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. While you're there grab Mozilla's Thunderbird email client.

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The ABS reports that the Internet was used to return over 720,000 Census forms.

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Jakob Nielsen reports that the Internet grew to 1 billion users in 2005.

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Skype has taken off in Oz and there are now well over one million subscribers here.

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Analysts say the cost of retraining staff along with the entrenched install base of Windows means it could be some time before Linux becomes a popular alternative to Microsoft's desktop OS

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Jargon problem? Try the Glossary.

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Good free products to maintain a safe PC:
ZoneAlarm (firewall),
Spybot (spyware ++),
Ad-Aware (adware).