Large Space Our web hosting plans provide a generous amount of space more than enough to host all your web pages, images and files. As your web site grows we can accommodate it by providing a larger plan to suit you.
Generous Traffic Allowance Our range of traffic allowance is designed to cater for a wide range of web sites from a simple personal site up to a busy information and community portal.
User Friendly Control Panel You can control your account through our user friendly control panel at anytime. Manage all aspects of your web site and email in one place.
Free Transfer Assistance Should you wish us to assist you in transferring your domain and web site to us, we will do so free of charge.
True Multiple Domain Support Our system allows you to have more than one web site yet you only pay for one account. Each of your web site has a separate directory and email system. Deleting or updating one site will not affect the others. Enjoy the savings with us.
Unix or Windows Platform Choice Data Exchange Hosting offers you the choice of Unix or Windows to be your web hosting platform. We give you the opportunity to sign up for both Unix and Windows accounts so that you can use ASP or ASP.NET on your Windows projects and take advantage of PHP, Perl or other Unix tools on our Unix hosting. Both are done natively on each platform so there is no "translation layers" involved.
Website Features
Ready made Scripts We provide ready to use scripts such as page counters, guestbook, web chat scripts that can be integrated to your web site easily.
Instant Online Community Forum Easily set up your own phpBB Forum with several mouse clicks from your control panel. phpBB is a full featured online forum script that allows your web visitors to communicate and interact with each other.
Microsoft FrontPage Server Extensions Designing with FrontPage? We provide FrontPage support on both our Unix and Windows web hosting services compatible with FrontPage 2002, 2000 and 98.
Detailed Site Statistics With every website that you host with us, we provide automated detailed statistics so you know how your site is doing. Find out which is the most popular page visited, where your visitors came from, what is your site's busiest time, how they found your site, and what search keywords they used to find it.
Your Own CGI-BIN You can run your own cgi scripts to provide custom functionalities on your web site. You can also install the many cgi-scripts that are freely available on the web.
Perl, Python and More We can host many of the popular scripting tools and supporting modules to give you more choices and flexibility to use any Perl or Python web scripts out there on your web site.
PHP Scripting - Advanced We specialise in providing a rich set of PHP modules and Pear libraries to support and host the widest range of PHP scripts and web sites out there. We understand PHP and can provide support for the advanced PHP developers' web hosting needs.
SSL Secure Server We provide FREE Secure SSL facility on some of our web hosting packages. SSL allows you to provide secure encrypted connection from your visitors to and from your website, often used for e-commerce / credit card payment facility.
Free Shared SSL and Low Cost SSL Certificates We offer shared SSL certificates for FREE. If you prefer to have your own SSL certificate, we have partnered with one of the leading SSL certificate authorities to offer you low cost SSL certificates with free installation. You can also use your own SSL certificates.
Databases
High Performance MySQL Database Server Host your dynamic web sites powered by PHP, Perl, Python, ASP or ASP.NET with our high performance MySQL database servers. MySQL is available for both Unix and Windows web hosting. By using a dedicated database server, we can deliver better performance for your web sites. MySQL databases are included in our packages free of charge.
High Performance PostgreSQL Database Server Our PostgreSQL database service is available to PHP, Perl, Python, ASP or ASP.NET. PostgreSQL database is available for both Unix and Windows web hosting. PostgreSQL databases are included in our packages free of charge. It provides most modern database functionalities that are still missing from MySQL such as transactions, stored procedures and subqueries.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 (MSSQL) Utilise the MS SQL server for heavy duty and data sensitive web applications linked via ASP or ASP.NET scripts. Our MSSQL server is a low cost solutions ideal for your small to medium scale deployment.
E-Mail Features
Unlimited POP3 Email Accounts We give you the freedom to create as many email accounts as you need for your staff or family members.
E-Mail Account Aliases You can create email address aliases for your email accounts. For example, create an alias called
for your actual email account
Advanced Email Forwarding Our email forwarding feature allows you to have multiple recipients. For example you can have
going to
,
and
all at the same time.
E-Mail Autoresponder / Vacation Reply When activated on your account, people will receive an automated reply when they send you an email. You can can customise this reply message from the control panel.
Catch-All Account You can designate one of your email accounts to receive all emails that are sent to non-existent addresses. For example, if you only have one email account
but wish to also receive emails sent to
,
, or
, then you can set the
to be the catch-all account.
Free Mailing List Facility Create newsletters, discussion list etc using our mailing list feature. It allows your customers to automatically subscribe and unsubscribe to/from your list.
Secure Web Mail Facility We provide web mail facility with address book and calendar so you can read and reply to your emails while you are away. You can access our web mail from any Internet browser worldwide. For extra security, our web mail facility is also available through SSL secure address.
Spam and Junk Mail Protection Save your time from sifting through the junk mails. Our Spam protection feature can make it easy for you to identify and automatically move the spam away from your inbox.
Virus Protection All emails passing through our system are scanned for viruses.
Domain Hosting Features
Domain Aliasing Point several domain names to your web site. For example, you can have www.yourbusiness.com, www.your-business.com and www.yourbusiness.com.au all pointing to the same web site.
Sub Domains Create multiple sub-domains. For example if you have the domain name "blogg.com", you can have joe.blogg.com (or www.joe.blogg.com), jane.blogg.com, tom.blogg.com, etc.
Custom DNS Records We provide an online DNS editor so that you can add custom DNS records to your domain names.
Dedicated IP Address We can provide dedicated IP address to your domains / web sites should it be required.
Unix Hosting Features
Shell Access via SSH We provide secure shell access to perform tasks that are often hard or impossible to do otherwise.
Cron Jobs Schedule jobs to be performed at a certain time via our crontab facility, for example to perform clean up or reminder mailouts or to check and respond to incoming emails automatically.
Windows Hosting Features
ASP Hosting Our ASP Hosting runs on the latest Microsoft Windows 2003. It comes with many features and ASP components to be used by your scripts.
ASP.NET Hosting We provide a stable Windows 2003 (aka .NET server) environment to host your ASP.NET powered web sites. Choose from MS SQL Server, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases to store your data.
Infrastructure
Reliable Servers We utilise disk mirroring (RAID1) on all our servers to ensure that we are covered against drive failures. This gives us and you a peace of mind.
World Class Data Center and Internet Connectivity Our servers are housed in a world class data centre with all the bells and whistles expected from such facility, such as UPS backup and generators, redundant power feed, VESDA (Very Early Smoke Detection Apparatus), climate and temperature control, Network Operation Center (NOC) staffed 24/7, and a fully meshed redundant connectivity to the Internet backbones.
24/7 Monitoring System Every aspect of our web hosting service is monitored around the clock. From web, email, dns, control panel, hard drive space and server load, everything is carefully monitored so we can keep up our quality of service to you.
Daily Backup System We back up every file, database and email account every day so that we can recover from crashes, computer failures or even just to bail you out if you ever made a mistake and accidentally deleted all your files.
Enhanced Security We constantly, religiously and carefully update our system for the purpose of keeping up with the latest security patches and updates. We apply special security settings to improve the security of our system and your data whereever possible.