Website Hosting

What do I need?

Before you can build a website, you will need a domain name (website address).

If you do not have a domain name, you can register and purchase a domain name whilst purchasing the premium website.

If you do have a domain name, check it includes a DNS Manager or DNS Service which lets you update A and CNAME records. If you can’t see these options in your Domain manager you may be able to purchase a DNS Manager or DNS Service separately from your existing provider; alternatively you can transfer your domain name to T-Suite so you can manage your domains and website services from one centralised place.

We offer competitively priced website hosting plans so you can easily change your host provider and consolidate your online services with us. They include a broad DIY toolset, a choice of web server operating system, one-click install web development applications, database controls and extensive programming language support.

Included in all plans:

• Website Control Panel so you can access and manage your Website Services from one place
• One-click install popular open-source applications such as WordPress, Joomla and more with SimpleScripts
• Search Engine Optimisation Submission (SEO) basic tool which submits your website to the top search engines and automatically resubmits them on a monthly basis. Also includes an initial site review to ensure the most common usability mistakes are avoided
• Dedicated IP Address for greater reliability and faster load times compared to shared IP addresses
• No minimum plan term
• Automatic site back-ups both nightly and weekly
• 99.9% server uptime
• 24/7 phone and email support

Additional services:

Upgrade your existing Midi Hosting plan to a Maxi Hosting plan

Website Transfer

Select the right plan

Technical specifications

Moving your existing website to Telstra’s website hosting plans is easy with our Website Transfer Plans. Our technical team will transfer web pages, images, documents and static files from your existing hosting provider so you can centralise your website services with Telstra.

We have the expertise, time-saving processes and latest technologies to make the transfer of your website to your new hosting service as smooth as possible.

Plan Options

Optional add-on

You can also get help to transfer elements of your website in addition to what is included in your Website Transfer Plan. Just pay for what you need with our Additional Services Hourly Rate. Our website transfer consultants are ready to help.

How it works:

1. Let’s get started

• Call 1800 TSUITE (1800 878 483) and we’ll connect you to a website transfer consultant to help you choose the right plan.
• We’ll go through the Website Transfer Plans and the transfer process with you. We’ll also ask you for information about your existing website and account credentials.

2. Website technical assessment

• The transfer team will do a comprehensive technical assessment to determine the scope of the transfer and the components to be transferred.

3. Review and approve the website transfer plan

• We’ll outline the transfer work we will complete and confirm your plan in writing – so you can review and sign.

4. Website transfer and launch

• We’ll transfer your web pages, images, documents and databases up to the maximum number of hours as specified for the plan.
• We’ll finish with a pre-launch inspection to test the website’s functionality prior to publishing your website hosted with Telstra.
• We’ll advise you to update your domain settings with the new IP address of your website.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Basic Tool

Drive more prospects to your website

With so many Internet users searching for products and services on the web, it’s crucial to have your website in the top search engine listings. Be proactive and save valuable time with SEO Basic.

• Get your new or updated site indexed more quickly.
• Automatically submit your website to the top search engines.
• Experts manually review you site and give feedback on search engine readiness.

SEO basic features

Monthly Submissions: Considering that major search engines have indexed only a fraction of all websites, your site needs all the help it can get to become indexed so searchers can find your information. Our tool provides complete reporting on where your site stands in the major search engines and even sub-search engines today. Included with every new hosting account is Basic Submission, the most important aspect of Search Engine Optimisation.

• Submits your website to 100+ search engines and DMOZ (open directory project).
• Automatically resubmitted to a specific list of search engines every month to ensure the best rank possible.
• Includes an option to override default settings and for manual submission to DMOZ.
• Detailed reports available for reviewing the submission status for each search engine.

Manual Site Review: Our service is unique in that beyond just simply letting you submit your site to an engine, our team will review it by hand and offer you pointers by email on any items that may be slowing up engine indexing such as broken images, heavy graphics, frames, music or more. Any improvement recommendations will be sent to you by email.

• Initial site review to check for common usability issues, including missing images, broken links, sound file issues, hidden text, popups, and more.

Why are SEO services needed?

Search engines send “spiders” out to visit websites and index content. SEO Services can help you to set up your website’s format and content to be seen as more relevant by the search engine spiders. Our Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) program focuses on the main factors involved in the formulation of the search engine algorithm – a formula that assigns importance (weight) to factors of your site to determine your ranking. Even though the weight associated with each of these factors may change, with our tool all of the essential elements will be in place and optimised.

Do I need any experience with or knowledge of SEO?

No, our tools are especially designed for non-technical users. A tutorial will guide you through every feature of the tool.

One-Click Install Applications – SimpleScripts

We offer an easy and fast way to install new functionality and the latest versions of popular open-source applications through SimpleScripts, a one-click install application management tool. We have a range of applications available for both Linux and Windows operating system and a notification system to let you know when updates and patches are available for your applications.

End-user licence agreements can be found in the Help and Support tab.

Expand the categories below to view the available applications.

• Blogs

   

  WordPress LINUX & WINDOWS	WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins, widgets, and themes now available. WordPress is a state-of-the-art personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. It is both free and priceless at the same time.
  b2evolution LINUX	b2evolution is a powerful blog tool. It includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and extends them with features like file & photo management, advanced skinning, support for multiple blogs as well as detailed user permissions and third party plug-ins! b2evolution is free, open-source (GPL), and is available in many languages!
  NucleusCMS LINUX	Nucleus can set up one or more weblogs. You can even show the contents of multiple weblogs on the same page. Each blog can have multiple authors and categories. There is a built in commenting system (with karma), fancy URLs, full post/comment searching, feed syndication, and much more. Nucleus is fully customisable and features a flexible plugin system for expansion.
  Geeklog LINUX & WINDOWS	Geeklog is a PHP/MySQL based application for managing dynamic web content. "Out of the box", it is a blog engine, or a CMS with support for comments, trackbacks, multiple syndication formats, spam protection, and all the other vital features. The core Geeklog distribution can easily be extended by the many community developed plugins including forums, image galleries, and many more.

   

• Client Management

   

  vtigerCRM LINUX

  vtiger CRM is a community-driven, fully open source, CRM software project. The product is widely used throughout the world, is available in many languages and boasts an active community of developers and users. Enterprise features include Sales Force Automation, customer support & service, marketing automation, calendaring, inventory management, security management, product customisation, Email integration and more.

   

• Content Management

   

  Joomla! LINUX & WINDOWS	Joomla! is a powerful Open Source Content Management System that gives you the tools and power to build standard sites, directories, intranets, social networks, shopping carts, and more. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable. Even non-technical users can easily edit page content, add pages and manage their web presence.
  Drupal LINUX	Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organise a great variety of content on a website. Drupal includes features to enable content management systems, blogs, collaborative authoring environments, forums, newsletters, picture galleries, file uploads and download and much more.
  MODx LINUX	MODx is an open source PHP Application Framework that helps you take control of your online content. It empowers developers and advanced users to give as much control as desired to whomever they desire for day-to-day website content maintenance chores.
  e107 LINUX	e107 is a content management system that is written in PHP and uses the popular open source MySQL database system for content storage. It's completely free, totally customisable and in constant development. It boasts massive plugin and theme resources and a polite and helpful community.
  Mambo LINUX	Mambo is a full-featured, award-winning content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. It is used all over the world to power government portals, corporate intranets and extranets, ecommerce sites, nonprofit outreach, schools, church, and community sites, small businesses and personal sites.
  XOOPS LINUX	XOOPS is an acronym of eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Though it started as a portal system, XOOPS is evolving into a Content Management System and web framework. XOOPS can be used for just blogging or modules like Forum, Download and Web Links can form a community and encourage interaction. Custom modules can also be developed for use throughout the system.
  PHP-Nuke LINUX	PHP-Nuke is an automated news system specially designed to be used in Intranets. Administrators have total control over the web site, registered users, and have a powerful assembly of tools to maintain an active and 100% interactive web site using databases. Note: Versions will be upgraded one version behind within our application installer to avoid PHP-Nuke's "Latest Version Fee."

   

• eCommerce

   

  Zen Cart LINUX	ZenCart is a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants. Features include multiple customer modes, unlimited category depth, multiple sales and discounts, an XHTML template system, multiple shipping and payment options and unlimited extra pages.
  OpenCart LINUX	OpenCart is a robust e-commerce solution that's feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface. It allows businesses to sell their products and services at a minimal cost. Note: our application installer supports the OpenCart project from 1.2.8 onwards.
  TomatoCart LINUX	TomatoCart is a professional and innovative open source ecommerce solution. The back-end is an impressive desktop-like ExtJS-powered interface, offering significant usability improvements and user experience. It's the most easy-to-use shopping cart.
  osCommerce WINDOWS	osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution that offers a wide range of out-of-the-box features that allows online stores to be setup fairly quickly with ease. osCommerce contains both a catalog frontend and an administration tool backend.

   

• Education

   

  Moodle LINUX

  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, dynamic online learning websites for their students. Moodle strives to give educators the best tools to manage and promote learning.

   

• Forms and surveys

   

  LimeSurvey LINUX	LimeSurvey allows you to develop and publish online multi-question, multi-lingual surveys. Use a large range of question types and presentation methods, survey branching (ie: conditional questions), quota support and optional participant control through a token system. Survey results can be exported to various formats or basic statistical analysis can be viewed with optional graphs.
  phpFormGenerator LINUX	phpFormGenerator is a an easy, online tool for creating reliable, efficient, and aesthetically-pleasing web forms in a snap with no programming of any kind! All the necessary code is generated automatically via an easy, point-and-click interface. Form results can be delivered via email, sent to a MySQL database, or written to a data file (which can be opened in Excel and other programs).

   

• Forums

   

  Simple Machines Forum LINUX	Simple Machines Forum is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom-made template engine includes all the features you need from a bulletin board. You're in full control of the lay-out and with our Server Side Includes function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other.
  phpBB LINUX	phpBB™ has become the most widely used Open Source forum solution. It has an easy to use administration panel and a user friendly installation process, which allows you to have a forum set up in minutes. Features include a large and highly customisable set of key features, coupled with a standards-compliant interface, making it one of the most popular ways to create and support a community.

   

• Guestbooks

   

  Lazarus LINUX

  Lazarus is a free guestbook script written in PHP that uses your MySQL database for storage and is based upon the excellent Advanced Guestbook script from Proxy2. We took the Advanced Guestbook and added more features and several layers of anti-spam protection to make it one of the most feature rich and spam resistant guestbook scripts available for free.

   

• Help centre

   

  Help Center Live LINUX	Help Center Live is an open-source, community-driven live chat & support system. You can easily provide a real-time, live support or sales person experience just like large companies do with very little work.
  Crafty Syntax Live Help LINUX	Crafty Syntax Live Help is free help center system. Features include the ability to create your own questions and auto invite visitors, referer tracking, page tracking, ability to view what the customer is typing as they type, multiple chat sessions, sound alert, leave a message if offline, push urls, quick responses, customisable graphics, and multiple operators.

   

• Mailing lists

   

  phpList LINUX	phplist is a robust and powerful open-source newsletter and email campaign manager. phplist is easy to integrate with any website and the web interface lets you write and send messages, and manage phplist over the internet. Features include tracking for Opens/Views/Clicks, customisable templates, customisable subscriber attributes and an HTML editor.
  poMMo LINUX	poMMo is versatile mass mailing software. It can be used to add a mailing list to your website or to organise stand-alone mailings. Features include the ability to mail subsets of your subscribers, quick import/export of lists, easy creation of groups, drag and drop field ordering and WYSIWYG HTML mailing creation.

   

• Project management

   

  Mantis LINUX

  Mantis is a free bug and issue tracking system. Mantis is available in 68 localisations, includes customisable issue pages, multiple projects per instance and the ability to give users different access levels per project. Mantis also includes search and filter, reports and graphs, custom fields, email notifications and more.

   

• RSS

   

  Gregarius LINUX

  Gregarius is a web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want. Features include simple, password-protected, administration and configuration, AJAX powered item tagging and full-text search.

   

• Social networking

   

  Pligg LINUX

  Pligg is a free, open source Content Management System (CMS) that makes it easy to start your own social networking community in minutes. Pligg CMS encourages visitors to register on your website so that they can create stories that are voted on by members, not website editors. Pligg CMS allows users to submit content and connect width other users.

   

• Utilities

   

  phpMyFAQ LINUX	phpMyFAQ is a multilingual, completely database-driven FAQ-system. phpMyFAQ includes a multi-language CMS with a WYSIWYG editor and an Image Manager, flexible multi-user support, a wiki-like revision feature, a news system, user-tracking, language modules, templates, XML and PDF support, a backup-system, a dynamic sitemap, related articles, tagging, RSS feeds, built-in spam protection systems, LDAP support and more.
  WebCalendar LINUX	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. WebCalendar can be setup to allow one or more assistants to manage the calendar of another user or to allow visitors to submit new events. WebCalendar can also be set up to be viewed with iCalendar-compliant calendar applications.
  PHPEvent Calendar WINDOWS	phpEventCalendar is a MySQL backed application that allows users to post and display events or notes on a month-at-a-glance calendar. A user administration panel allows authorised users (Administrators) to control who can add, delete, and edit events (Editors).

   

• Wiki

   

  WikkaWiki LINUX	WikkaWiki (often shortened as Wikka) is a free, lightweight and standards-compliant wiki engine that can be used by individuals, development teams or as an intranet or extranet. It is designed for speed, extensibility, and security. Features include an easily customisable layout, optional footer comments, Search engine friendly pages and more.
  DokuWiki LINUX	DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the data files remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files, no database is required.
  PmWiki LINUX	PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. PmWiki pages look and act like normal web pages, except they have an "Edit" link that makes it easy to modify existing pages and add new pages, using basic editing rules. No HTML or CSS skills required. Page editing can be open to the public or restricted to small groups of authors.
  MediaWIKI WINDOWS	MediaWiki is a free software open source wiki package written in PHP, originally for use on Wikipedia. MediaWiki is designed to be run on a large server farm for a website that gets millions of hits per day. MediaWiki is an extremely powerful, scalable software and a feature-rich wiki implementation, that uses PHP to process and display data stored in a database, such as MySQL.

   

• Photo galleries

   

  Coppermine LINUX	Coppermine is a multi-purpose, integrated web picture gallery script. Features include themes, comment system, categories and albums, easy-to-use interface or FTP, random picture, last added, full multi-media support. You can create private galleries and groups, integrate with bulletin board services like phpBB and include user-defined caption, title and description fields.
  Zenphoto LINUX	Zenphoto is an online gallery solution that shows your photos, simply. It's got all the functionality and features you need for you online gallery, and nothing you don't. Features include sub-albums, tags, searching, RSS feeds, EXIF/IPTC support, Video support, plugins, comment spam filtering, geospatial visualisation, image archives, and more.
  Piwigo LINUX	Piwigo is a photo gallery software for the web, built by an active community of users and developers. Themes and Extensions make Piwigo make it easy to customise the appearance and add features. Use Albums to organise photos and Tags to describe each and search for them. You can also make photos private and decide who n view them.
  Pixelpost LINUX	Pixelpost is an open-source, standards-compliant, multi-lingual, fully extensible photoblog application for the web that's a no-brainer to set up and use. It's perfect for anyone wishing to regularly post their photos on the web like a blog. If you are looking for a full blown CMS or text-blog, Pixelpost isn't for you. It's simple, and designed from the ground up for photobloggers.
  4images LINUX	4images is a powerful web-based image gallery management system. Features include comment system, user registration and management, password protected administration area with browser-based upload, customisable HTML templates and an external language file can be used for translation in other languages.

Help guides and brochures

Website Hosting Linux Getting Started Guide (PDF, 1.1MB)
Website Hosting Windows Getting Started Guide (PDF, 1.7MB)
Website Hosting Quick Guide (PDF, 323kB)

T-Suite customer technical support is available 24x7

Online
If you have purchased a Website Services plan, you can lodge technical support questions through the Helpdesk via the T-Suite Management Console.

Phone
If you have an urgent problem, you can call T-Suite customer technical support on 1800 TSUITE (1800 878 483).

• One-Click Install Applications – SimpleScripts End-user licence agreements (click to expand)

  Category	Official Name	URL to License
  Blogs	b2evolution	http://b2evolution.net/about/license.html
  Blogs	Geeklog	http://www.geeklog.net/docs/license
  Blogs	Nucleus CMS	http://docs.nucleuscms.org/item/156
  Blogs	WordPress	http://wordpress.org/about/gpl
  Client Management	vtiger CRM	http://vtiger.com/products/crm/vtigrcrm-license.html
  Content Management	Joomla!	http://opensourcematters.org/index.php
  Content Management	Drupal	http://drupal.org/licensing/faq/
  Content Management	e107	http://wiki.e107.org/index.php?title=About_e107#Licence
  Content Management	Mambo	http://mambo-code.org/gf/project/mambo/
  Content Management	MODX	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
  Content Management	PHP-Nuke	http://phpnuke.org/files/gpl.txt
  Content Management	XOOPS	http://www.xoops.org/modules/wfchannel/index.php?pagenum=2
  eCommerce	OpenCart	http://www.opencart.com/index.php?route=download/download
  eCommerce	TomatoCart	http://www.tomatocart.com/wiki/TomatoCart_User_Guide#TomatoCart_License
  eCommerce	Zen Cart	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
  eCommerce	OSCommerce	http://www.oscommerce.com/about/copyright
  Education	Moodle	http://docs.moodle.org/dev/License
  Forms and Surveys	LimeSurvey	http://www.limesurvey.org/en/about-limesurvey/license
  Forms and Surveys	phpFormGenerator	http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/install:phpFormGenerator#license
  Forums	phpBB	http://www.phpbb.com/downloads/license/
  Forums	Simple Machines Forum	http://www.simplemachines.org/about/smf/license.php
  Guestbooks	Lazarus	http://carbonize.co.uk/Lazarus/license.php
  Help Center	Crafty Syntax Live Help	http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/install:CraftySyntaxLiveHelp#license
  Help Center	HelpCenter Live	http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/install:HelpCenterLive#license
  Mailing Lists	phpList	http://www.phplist.com/download
  Mailing Lists	poMMo	http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/install:poMMo#license
  Photo Galleries	4images	http://www.4homepages.de/4images/license.php
  Photo Galleries	Coppermine	http://documentation.coppermine-gallery.net/en/copyrights.htm
  Photo Galleries	Piwigo	http://piwigo.org/basics/license
  Photo Galleries	Pixelpost	http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/license/
  Photo Galleries	Zenphoto	http://www.zenphoto.org/pages/licenses
  Project Management	MantisBT	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
  RSS	Gregarius	http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/install:Gregarius#license
  Social Networking	Pligg	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
  Social Networking	PHPEventCalendar	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
  Utilities	phpMyFAQ	http://www.phpmyfaq.de/license.php
  Utilities	WebCalendar	http://www.k5n.us/webcalendar.php?topic=License
  Wiki	DokuWiki	http://www.dokuwiki.org/faq:license
  Wiki	PmWiki	http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
  Wiki	WikkaWiki	http://docs.wikkawiki.org/LicenseInfo
  Wiki	MediaWIKI	http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html