Internet - Get your Business Online - Build a Website
Build your company a professional website to connect with customers and prospects locally and around the world.
A domain name is your company's online identity and helps people find your business online – it's your address in the world wide web! Selecting and securing a domain name is one of the most important steps in building your website.
| Domain type | Description | 1 year registration | 2 year registration |
| .com.au | Represents businesses and companies operating within Australia , and can be registered by any Australian commercial entity. | n/a | $65 |
| .com and .net | Used by anyone, anywhere in the world. These types of domain names are typically used by individuals and businesses that wish to communicate to a global community. | $25 | n/a |
Already have a domain name?
If you already have your business domain name hosted with another provider, it's simple to transfer it to Optus and in most cases it won't cost you a cent. Simply contact us on 1300 937 623 and we can organise it for you.
Select multiple domain names
By using our Domain Parking service you can:
- Have multiple domain name identities promoting your business and products, with all of them pointing back to your main website
- Have multiple similar domain names pointing to your existing website to help catch people who are possibly looking for your website (eg. point your .com domain to your .com.au website)
- Point a domain name to a specific sub-directory or page of your website
- Have your domain name mail records pointed to your internal mail server.
In order to build a website, you need a web hosting service to store all the files that you want to load onto it. Our range of web hosting plans can support businesses wanting to present simple product and contact information right through to websites providing full e-commerce and database driven transactions.
| Basic | Starter | Starter Plus | Executive | Executive Plus | Professional | |
| Monthly Cost | $16.50 | $39.95 | $65.95 | $89.95 | $329.95 | $699 |
| Set-Up Cost | $0 | $64 | $97 | $105 | $105 | $155 |
| Suitable if you want: | A basic site to start your business online | A simple site containing mostly pictures and text | A dynamic site with basic database features | A larger, interactive and content-rich website | A highly sophisticated, database-driven site with large traffic volumes | A popular, business-critical site requiring superior performance, speed and availability |
| Server space | 50MB | 200MB | 500MB | 800MB | 3GB | 3GB |
| Monthly data transfer | 500MB | 10GB | 20GB | 30GB | 40GB | 80GB |
| POP mailboxes | 1 | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| SiteBuilder | Easy | Basic | Basic | Basic | Basic | Basic |
Advanced Features
Our range of additional products allows you to select only those components you need to develop and run your web site more efficiently. You can boost the functionality of your web site with a web forum, an online store, or by streaming audio and visual content. Add-Ons (if supported by your web hosting plan) can be activated from within your Mission Control panel at any time after your web hosting account has been established, either through the appropriate links or by logging a job with one of our Technicians.
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*Available as 'Add-On Products' which may incur an additional charge.
With SiteBuilder, you can create a professional looking website in just 5 easy steps. The tool allows you to create, modify and publish your website in a matter of minutes.
- No need for web development or programming skills
- Choose from over 300 professional templates
- Preview your website while you are building it
| SITEBUILDER PLANS | COST | SIZE OF WEBSITE |
| Easy | Free |
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| Basic | Free |
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| Advanced | $60 per year |
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Sign Up Online
If you are an existing Business Online customer, you can sign up to use Web Hosting and SiteBuilder in your Mission Control. Select the 'Add Component', and then navigate through to the product links. Log into your Mission Control interface now. Charges will apply.Terms and Conditions
Optus Web Hosting
Contract can be terminated on one month's notice.
Optus Web Hosting supports a number of different payment gateways, however, Optus prefers and recommends either Dialect or eWay . If you wish to use an alternative payment gateway provider, please contact our Technical Support on 1300 791 403 for more information.
The server space included with each plan is calculated by adding the monthly average of your website storage and the monthly average of storage of all mailboxes under your account. Once your server space exceeds the allocated limit, an additional fee of $0.099 per extra MB per month is charged.
If your website's data transfer on the Executive plan or below exceeds the allocated amount per month, an additional fee of $0.077 per extra MB per month is charged.
If your website's data transfer exceeds the allocated amount
per month, a fee will be charged for the excess traffic according to the Lowest
IP data traffic model. Optus will charge you $0.099 per MB (rounded up) per
month for either:
(a) data transferred from your site over 40GB for the
Executive Plus hosting plan or 80GB for the Professional hosting plan; or
(b)
all incoming data delivered to your site;
whichever is the lesser. In
addition and separate to the charges above, if the ratio of the outgoing data to
incoming data exceeds 6:1 and outgoing data exceeds 1Terabyte, Optus will charge
you for all outgoing data sent in excess of the 6:1 ratio at $0.099 per MB per
month.
Starter Plus hosting plan and above requiring support for a database can only have their database hosted using either the SQL Lite Add-On or MySQL Add-On and additional charges will apply.
For security reasons, .NET code runs under a restricted trust level. Your code will not run with full trust rights.
Customers utilising the .NET Framework (v2.0) may also utilise a Microsoft® Access database with this hosting plan. However, Optus prefers and recommends the use of a either a Microsoft® SQL or MySQL database with .NET-enabled websites, and customers will be required to purchase either the SQL Lite Add-On or MySQL Add-On and additional charges will apply.
Customers requiring an IP Address with the Executive plan will incur a set-up fee of $50. Should an IP Address be required with the Executive plan after the account has been provisioned, a transition fee of $135 will also be incurred.
Executive hosting plan and above requiring specific ColdFusion tags to be enabled or Custom Tags (CFX tags) installed, you must contact our Sales Team on 1300 791 403 before you sign up to ensure they are supported on this plan.
Optus SiteBuilder
If you terminate the Optus web hosting account with which you are utilising SiteBuilder Basic or SiteBuilder Add-On, all the content (text) which you have entered into the SiteBuilder interface will be permanently erased and no pro-rata refunds of the SiteBuilder Advanced Add-On fee will be payable for any unused portion of the term if you choose to downgrade before the end of your billing month.
The SiteBuilder Advanced Add-On is only available for use with the Starter Plus and above hosting plans.
If you wish to downgrade from the SiteBuilder Advanced Add-On to the free SiteBuilder Easy or Basic inclusion, you will not be able to migrate any of the content created using the SiteBuilder Advanced Add-On and you will be required to re-build your website using SiteBuilder Easy or Basic. This is due to technical compatibility issues.
If you use the e-shop component of the SiteBuilder Advanced
Add-On:
(a) You must comply with the ‘PCI Standard' as stated in the Optus
Application Services Standard Terms and Conditions ;
(b) Additional
transaction fees apply for the use of PayPal.
