| | | Colocated server hosting | Where a customer wishes to provide and manage their own server, Multibase provides colocated hosting in its specialist hosting environment located at Fujitsu Australia’s Internet Data Centre in North Ryde, NSW. Colocation provides increased performance, privacy and security compared with shared hosting. It is appropriate where the customer requires and has the resources to maintain control over its server. Multibase maintains the network connection, security and power management for the locker and building, and the customer provides and manages the hardware and software including operating system updates. As with all customers, our highly skilled, broad-ranging technical and customer service staff care about your Internet project and provide personal service and support. What's chargeable?Colocated hosting packages are created to suit individual customer requirements, from the following components.
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What is it |
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Price |
| Hosting |
Covers data centre hosting on specialist managed, server, backup, redundant power, monitoring. |
Includes 1 rack unit |
$3,125.00 pa |
| Additional rack units |
Servers are located in standard racks. Rack servers are the most economical way to host a server. |
Each additional rack unit |
$750.00 p.a. |
| Setup |
Covers standard setup of server, electrical testing and entry into the data centre. |
Allows 4-5 hours. Other application or package setups charged at standard hourly rates. |
$625.00 one off |
| Static IP address |
Allows domain-specific SSL certificate, custom firewall rules etc., traffic monitoring, remote terminal access. |
Individual static IP address is allocated. |
$120.00 p.a. |
| Firewall rules/switch ports |
Setup and management of custom firewall rules controlling access to your IP address. |
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$260.00 p.a. |
| Data traffic |
Data traffic in and out of your server each month, calculated on a rolling 12 month average to eliminate excess charges. |
If your serverconsistently exceeds the allowance, we will renegotiate traffic allowances. |
< 5001Mb per month: $0.05 Mb
> 5000Mb per month: $0.04 Mb
Significant data volumes - POA |
What's included?These features are included in all colocated hosting packages as required.
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What is it |
Availability |
Price |
| Backup |
Standard backup schedule is a full data backup every 24 hours on our network backup and to tape, using a weekly rotation system. These backup tapes are held in fireproof storage. Other backup |
Other arrangements can be negotiated and quoted individually.
Very large servers may require their own tape drive for efficient backup. |
Restoration from backup is charged at standard hourly rates. |
| Monitoring systems |
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Key servers, services and communications monitored using the industry-standard What’s Up? Gold, which is accessible both during business hours and remotely by Multibase staff. |
Included |
| Security |
Multibase provides a specialist hosting environment physically located in Fujitsu Australia’s Sydney Internet Data Centre. The centre has multple redundant power supplies, and multi-homed Internet connections. Servers are managed daily by specialist security consultants |
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Included |
What's optional?These options may be added as required.
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What is it |
Availability |
Price |
| Server management |
Management of operating system level patches and upgrades. All collocated servers must be managed by customer or Multibase. |
Allows 2-3 hours per month. |
By customer, or $3,125.00 p.a. subject to assessment |
| Domain names |
A domain name allows a web site at your domain name e.g. www.yourdomain.com.au and email to be username@yourdomain.com.au. Both offer professional presentation of web site and email addresses. Alternatively, you can have an address at australis.net.au.
Multibase manages its own DNS (Domain Name Server) and has wide knowledge readily available so we can readily provide advanced features. |
Any number of domain names can be pointed to one or more parts of your web site. |
Domain name fees |
| Subdomains |
This allows a sub-section of your web site or email users to have a different address e.g. sales.yourdomain.com.au. Subdomains are typically used for a large web site, or when different parts of the site are hosted on different servers or different hosting platforms (even with another provider), or when a separate SSL-secured section is required. |
Any number of sub-domain names can be established and pointed to one or more parts of your web site. |
Domain name fees |
| Support and maintenance contract |
Monthly contracts are available for support and maintenance. |
Monthly allowance or prepaid time blocks. |
See Support and Maintenance contracts. |
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