• Ithemes Pluginbuddy Developer plugins including Backupbuddy for you to maintain a backup of your site (and make it easy to transfer if you decide to change away from our hosting service for any reason – not that we think you would want to though)
• Gravity forms – the best WordPress form software on the market
• Traffic Player – the best Youtube player for WordPress
• Short Codes Deluxe – a myriad of shortcodes for graphics to enhance your website
• SEO Scorer – provides recommendations to improve the SEO ratings for each each page in your site.
• WP Testimonial Attack – to manage customer testimonials (New Plugin)
• WP ShareMe – provides social media site referral in a popup window (New Plugin)
• WP Popup Wizard – provides a popup to capture email address
• WP Legalpages - automate creation of disclaimers and other legal pages
• WordPress Austoresponder – to run an autoresponder from your Wordpress website

Any 3 plugins installed for $60

All plugins listed above installed for $80

After you have completed your Paypal purchase, you will be directed back to this page to complete the order form below:

( All plans include Australian GST in prices)

This plan includes the installation of  themes Pluginbuddy Developer plugin Backupbuddy for you to maintain a backup of your site (and make it easy to transfer if you decide to change away from our hosting service for any reason – not that we think you would want to though) and WP Tune-up for site security.

We currently manage 4 servers in the following locations:

• Brisbane, Queensland - Pipe Networks Datacentre.  Local Datacentre for sites requiring low latency/fast support at a higher bandwidth cost.
• Los Angeles, Digital Realty Trust Datacentre. High Volume servers located west coast USA for reduced latency and reasonable bandwidth costs.
• Dallas, Texas - The Planet Datacentre – High volume servers with lower cost bandwidth.
• Chicago, Illinois – Singlehop Datacentre (reserved for network SEO use and worpdress production)

From our experience in website development and hosting over the years, we know the importance of having server reliability but we also know that servers are computers and computers can and do have failures.  Therefore, we have built our server network based on the backup technical support provided by the these datacentres to ensure that unforseen events are resolved as quickly as possible.

We know that our hosting services are among the best available and our network offers SEO values that are not provided by others.

We also like to take add some bonuses to hosting accounts including templates and themes etc (depending on the hosting plan selected). 

Our attention to detail does take a bit longer to create your account and we aim to have it running and send you your welcome email within 24 hours or receiving your domain details.

To sign up for your new hosting account, select the plan that you require and click the relevant “sign up” button under the plan (remember there is an attractive discount for each annual subscription plan that will give you 2 months free).  Once you have made you payment at Paypal, you should be returned to our Thank You page where you are requested to complete our hosting signup form to provide us with the details we require to create yiour new account.

If you have any concerns about the process, please contact Allan (email admin@gympiehosting.com or phone 07 5482 3478) for assistance.  In these circumstances, we may change the process to let you to complete the signup form and have your hosting account created first, before your payment is made.

We will create your new account within 24 hours of receipt of our hosting account setup request form below:

Gympie Hosting is a service provide by www.cooloolabusiness.com.  At Cooloolabusiness.com, we have established requirements for hosting your website to meet statutory requirements and our ethical standards. We reserve the right to:

• decline hosting of any site that does not meet these standards; and
• to terminate any account without refund where the hosted site violates these terms and conditions.

1. Hosting accounts are not to be used for any illegal purposes including those outlined by the Australian Government.
2. Hosting accounts are not to be used to publicly disseminate or transmit racist, sexist or otherwise offensive or dangerous material as defined by the Australian Government.
3. Any hosting accounts for a website that contains data deemed by cooloolabusiness.com to be offensive or not appropriate for children will not be hosted on our servers.
4. Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of spamming, mass mailing, the distribution of unsolicited mail or the making of fraudulent offers.
5. All standard hosting service accounts are for 12 month periods. If during this period a customer cancels their account they will not receive any refund. Customers cannot put their accounts on “hold” or “delay”. All accounts are to be paid to cooloolabusiness.com by their due date. Where payment is not received by the due date, the account will be suspended and all remaining data will be deleted after 7 days. Tax invoices will be emailed to the email address provided by the customer at the time of initial hosting and account renewal. Paper Invoices will be provided when requested by the customer.
6. We may introduce monthly hosting packages by subscription using Paypal.  All subscription services must be kept paid in advance.  Accounts will be terminated withing 7 dys of a Paypal subscription payment failure.
7. On account cancellation or termination, international domains registered by cooloolabusiness.com on behalf of clients remain valid until expiry unless cancelled at the request of the client. Where a client wishes to retain a domain, payment of the relevant domain renewal feel is required to transfer the domain to the client. Where payment is not made, Cooloolabusiness.com may place advertising on the domain or re-use the domain to recover these costs.
8. All information provided by the customer to cooloolabusiness.com must be correct and accurate and the Queensland Police and Federal Government have the right to requisition such information pursuant to State and Federal Law.
9. cooloolabusiness.com is not responsible for errors of any type.
10. Customers will be held responsible and accountable for any activity by third parties, using their account that violates guidelines created within these Terms and Conditions.
11. cooloolabusiness.com has the right to determine if a link off its server is acceptable.
12. Customers are restricted from uploading individual files larger than 20 MB in size to restrict the large percentage of illegal material that occurs over this size limit.
13. cooloolabusiness.com offers “basic technical support” at our discretion for budget and standard accounts.  Premium managed accounts have full technical support
14. cooloolabusiness.com will monitor all files on its servers to detect breaches of these Terms and Conditions. Breaches will be dealt with accordance with these Terms and Conditions with illegal data being reported to the proper authorities.
15. cooloolabusiness.com is not responsible for any files found on our servers, which were uploaded by a customer.
16. cooloolabusiness.com reserves the right to refuse service to any customer where it is considered that the requested hosting service is not in the best interest of our network and of our existing clients.
17. Backups of websites are the responsibility of the client. It is always good practice to have a backup of your web site and cooloolabusiness.com will undertake a backup of your site data upon your email request. In the event that a server hard drive crashed (which has never happened), we cannot guarantee that we would be able to restore all your data (no web host can), and it is best that you have a backup just in case.

    Note: we maintain original files for all websites designed by cooloolabusiness.com and Gympie Websites for backup/restoration purposes (as all good design firms should).

18. Payment for hosting services confirms that you have read and agree to accept these Terms and Conditions which are publicly available on our website. We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify these Terms and Conditions at any time as required to meet our legal obligations and to guarantee the integrity of our network for all clients.

Clients agree not to utilise our Hosting Services for any activities that:

• constitute or encourage a violation of any applicable law or regulation, including but not limited to the sale of illegal goods or obscenity laws,
• defame, impersonate or invade the privacy of any third party or entity,
• infringe the rights of any third party, including but not limited to the intellectual property, business, contractual or fiduciary rights of others,
• involve the display, sale, distribution or creation of any pornographic, adult images/content, obscene or otherwise offensive goods, services, material or ideas or promote violence, or discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age,
• modify any cooloolabusiness.com notices or scripts without obtaining prior written consent from cooloolabusiness.com,
• provide mirroring service for other web sites,
• the primary purpose is non-http compatible file distribution, including but not limited to the distribution of the following file types: .arj, .mp3, .exe, .tar, .rar, or .zip,
• are in any way connected with trolling, mailbombing, IRC Bots, Game-emulators, ROMs or the transmission of junk mail, spam, the unsolicited mass distribution of e-mail or with any unethical marketing practices,
• infringe copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or intellectual property right including the distribution or posting of warez, roms, mp3′s, mpegs etc.
• maintain or provide an image archive or collection for display,
• misuse network resources in a manner which impairs network performance.
• use an email box exclusively as a storage space for data, which includes a mailbox exceeding 50 MB or the trasmission of emails larger than 5 MB.  Note: Online services like www.mailbigfile.com are much more efficient at sending large files than using email.

Any hosting account found to be in violation of any of these Terms and Conditions of Hosting will be deleted from our servers and the hosting account will be cancelled without notice or refund.

( All plans include Australian GST in prices)

After you have complted your subscription payment at Paypal, you will receive an email and a Paypal Transaction ID.  Paypal should return you to our Thank You page.  Please complete the Hosting Sign Up Form on that page with your details to enable us to complte the setup of your new hostying account.  

On receipt of your details and domain name, we will manually setup the server and create your hosting account and install a temporary home page for you to get things running.  You will be responsible for maintenace of your website, creation and management of your email account.  The perfect hosting account for the small hobbyist if you know what you are doing with CPanel or you have the time to learn (we will be adding CPanel tutorials to the www.gympiehosting.com soon).

These plans are available by Paypal Subscription only.

(Paypal subscription buttons coming soon – email admin@gympiehosting.com if you need early access to this plan)

In recent times, we have seen a few sites compromised and our investigations of these security breaches indicate that hackers obtaining access passwords represent the majority of site intrusions.  Hackers can obtain passwords (Cpanel and Worpdress) through:

• “bruteforce” software attacks that  generate random password combinations until the password is found
• virus/malware installed on users computers that send the stored passwords to hackers

We also use the Genesis framework for our Worpdress installations (we never use free themes as they can be poorly coded and also contain code backdoors).  Genesis is one of our solutions for WordPress security and optimisation.  It is:

• very clean and secure code
• SEO optimized “out of the box”
• allows limitless design customisation with child themes
• easy to configure with lots of widgets and plugins
• very flexible and compatible with major browsers

• Change your Cpanel password to be more secure (we use a random generator with 14 characters, upper and lowercase letters, numbers and punctuation marks)
• manually create your database using a very secure password
• manually install wordpress instead of using Fantastico or other installers
• change the database table prefix used by the Worpress install from “wp” to anything else eg “MYwp”
• do not use “admin” for your WordPress admin login username
• use a very secure password for your WordPress login
• Install the Genesis framework (remove unused themes)
• install a good Worpdress Security Plugin e.g. WP Tune-up or BulletProof Security
• minimise the number of plugins in your plugins folder (remove inactive plugins)
• keep WordPress and installed plugins up to date
• it is always good policy to have a backup plan to be able to recover and restore your website. We make Backupbuddy (a premium paid plugin for which we have a developer licence) available for our WordPress hosting clients for this purpose.
• install a good antivirus program on your PC and keep it up to date (Microsoft Security Essentials (free from Microsoft) is recommended if you don’t not have AV software.
• install and regularly run an antimalare program e.g. Antimalware (free) from www.malwarebytes.org
• as an extra safeguard, run an online virus scan on your PC e.g. Housecall from Trendmicro (http://free.antivirus.com/)
• Never give your Cpanel or WordPress password to anyone unless you know and trust them – you will never be contacted by your host or an employee claiming to be from “Microsoft” asking for your password.

Remember, we provide all this for our WordPress Premium Hosting clients.