VA's Hosting Services

Virtual Artists provides high speed and very reliable internet hosting services. We host on UNIX (Solaris, OpenSolaris and FreeBSD). We take pride in providing a high level of support to our hosting clients.

We provide the following hosting services:

Dedicated Servers - contact us
Virtual Private Servers (Solaris Zones), aka Containers - contact us
Virtual Web Hosting, to host your website, using Apache on UNIX, with numerous features including Ruby on Rails, PHP, Perl, mod_perl, Tomcat (for Java Servlets), Cocoon (XML/XSL/XSP publishing framework), and more
DNS Hosting, to host your domain name
Virtual Email Hosting

See below for our current pricing and hosting application form, or contact us for further information.

VA Hosting Application Form

Use this form to request hosting with Virtual Artists. After you've filled out this form we will contact you to confirm the details.

Pricing (in Australian Dollars and inclusive of a 10% GST)
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DNS and Web Hosting:

Virtual Webserver	$220 per year	Includes 50Mb of space on your own Virtual Webserver, includes free VA Subdomain, eg http://yourname.va.com.au
Additional Webserver Space	$55 per 50Mb per year	Additional blocks of 50Mb to add space to your Virtual Webserver
Domain Name Hosting	$110 per year	Optional, needed if you want your own domain name, eg http://www.yourdomain.com *

* Note:
When requesting your own domain name, additional registration fees apply, which vary depending upon the domain name you are requesting. We simply pass this cost on to you. eg, a .com.au generally costs around AUD$140 per 2 years for domain name registration, a .com generally costs around AUD$33 per year for domain name registration.

Email Hosting:

Virtual Email Server	$110 per year	Includes three email accounts, eg you@yourdomain.com
Additional Email Accounts	$35 per year	Additional email accounts, eg someoneelse@yourdomain.com
Increased Mailbox Quota	$22 per year for a block of 20Mb	Extra space on our mail server for your account
VA Email Account	$35 per year	A VA email account, eg yourname@va.com.au

Note:
All email accounts hosted at Virtual Artists are accessable via our Secure Webmail.

Who is filling in this form?

Your Name:
Your Email Address:

Virtual Webserver

I want a Virtual Webserver:

I want my own own domain name

I want Virtual Artists to register my domain name for me

Desired Web Address (URL)

Either:
A Virtual Artists Subdomain

http://www. .va.com.au

Domains under .va.com.au are free, you just pay for the Virtual Webhosting component, eg $220/yr for 50Mb

Or:
Your Own Domain Name

http://www.

You can have your own domain registered by Virtual Artists. We charge $110 per year for DNS hosting of your own domain name, and pass on the cost of registration of the domain name with the relevant body (usually around $125 per 2 yrs). Virtual Webhosting fees are on top of this $110.

Second Choices:

In case your first choice is unavailable, please add any second choices for domain names here, listed in order of priority.

Disk Space

How much disk space do you think your site will need in total in the first year?

If you think you will need more than 150 Mb, exactly how much space do you think? Mb

Virtual Email Server:

I want a Virtual Email Server:

POP Account:	@your.domain.name
Additional POP Accounts:	@your.domain.name

About you and your organisation:
Please fill in all applicable details.

Organisation Name:
Contact Person:
Email Address:
Phone:
Mobile:
ACN (Australian Company Number):
ABN (Australian Business Number):
RBN (Registered Business Number:
RBN State:
Postal Address:
Suburb:
State:	Post Code:
Country:
Admin NIC Handle (optional):

Any other information:

Please supply any other information you feel is relevant to this application below.

Send us your completed application: