Hosting

Australian Web Hosting

Blue Ocean Web Hosting was founded to serve small businesses needs and desire for a quality managed web hosting company that you can trust, talk to, and understand how and why it is important for your website to stay online.

We are able to assist in web hosting, domain registration, email hosting, plus a multitude of other services designed to accurately assist you in having a reliable, trustworthy and secure home for your website.  In today’s world, your online presence is required 100 percent of the time.  Your personal account manager will help you with all aspects of your hosting environment if you need it. Setup email accounts, register or transfer domains, install SSL certificates and much, more. Of course, all these functions are totally available for your to do them yourself if you want to get your hands dirty.

Web Hosting plans to suit your business

  Starter

You are starting out by yourself or have a small team or just small requirements from a web host. This plan gives you enough resources to dive in, get started and paddle around.
  • 10 GB Fast SSD Storage
  • Unlimited Bandwidth/Data
  • 2 GB Fast RAM
  • CPU 100%
 
 

$15.95/mo

  Business

This is the minimum recommended plan for running WordPress. It gives you the space, the bandwidth and power that's needed to run a small business website and organise your office emails
  • 20 GB Fast SSD Storage
  • Unlimited Bandwidth/Data
  • 4 GB Fast RAM
  • CPU 200%
 
 

$24.90/mo

  Business Plus

High performance, large data allocation and unlimited bandwidth. This is the last stop before a tailored web hosting plan. Will run most small business websites and allow all extra features.
  • 30 GB Fast SSD Storage
  • Unlimited Bandwidth/Data
  • 6 GB Fast RAM
  • CPU 300%
 
 

From $32.95/mo

StarterBusinessBusiness Plus
CPU100%200%300%
RAM/Memory2GB4GB6GB
BandwidthUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Disk Space / Storage10GB20GB30GB
Control PanelcPanelcPanelcPanel
Databases / MYSQL110Unlimited
WebMail AccessIncludedIncludedIncluded
eMail AccountsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
BackupsMonthlyWeeklyDaily
FTP Accounts15Unlimited
SubDomainsNill5Unlimited
Parked Domains / AliasNil5Unlimited
Addon Domains15Unlimited
Free SetupIncludedIncludedIncluded
Personal Account ManagerIncludedIncludedIncluded
Australian ServersIncludedIncludedIncluded
Data Centre LocationSydneySydneySydney
Uptime Guarantee99.5%99.5%99.5%
Plan 1Plan 2Plan 3
Forwarding Included Included Included
Auto Responder Included Included Included
Catch All email address Included IncludedIncluded
cPanel VersionLatestLatestLatest
PHP Version7.4+7.4+7.4+
phpMyadminIncludedIncludedIncluded
CageFSIncludedIncludedIncluded
Secure FTPIncludedIncludedIncluded
LogsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Cron JobsIncludedIncludedIncluded
IMAP ServicesIncludedIncludedIncluded
Domain ManagementAvailableAvailableAvailable
WordPress FriendlyYesYesYes
24/7/365 Server MonitoringYesYesYes
No Lock In ContractsIncludedIncludedIncluded
IonCube LoaderIncludedIncludedIncluded
File ManagerIncludedIncludedIncluded
Password DirectoriesIncludedIncludedIncluded

Email addresses included
with your web hosting.

Grab an email address that matches your website domain.   You and your team can connect with personalised email accounts or you can use generic account names such as sales and contact inboxes.

World class business hosting

Full control with cPanel

Manage hundreds of features baked into your cPanel which allow you to take the wheel. You take the lead when it comes to what you want to achieve.

Publish a website

Built for WordPress.  Choose from WordPress or other popular site builders to launch your brand, blog or store onto the internet.  Use your resources to build and monitor your website from the ground up.

Create emails and calendars

Built in powerful email and calendar capabilities.  Launch new email accounts, create shared calendars and control spam with various levels of sensitivity.

Backup, transfer and manage files

Securely backup and transfer and download all web files via easy to use File Manager or use the FTP controls

Manage domains

Included powerful domain name management tools.  Create aliases, add or remove subdomains, manage DNS zones and much more…

Launch databases

Design custom databases using MYSQL Wizard, phpMyAdmin and other useful and powerful tools

WordPress Toolkit

WordPress Toolkit Lite FREE

A feature rich WordPress toolkit is provided for your use right inside your cPanel and includes everything you need to take control of your WordPress websites. 

WordPress toolkit lite is provided free. 

Features included in the Lite version are:

  • Customise installation
  • Website dashboard
  • Change admin password
  • Restore backups
  • Manual updates
  • Search engine indexing management
  • Automatic hardening
  • and much more…

 

WordPress Toolkit Deluxe features

  • All Lite features
  • Plugin and theme set management
  • Cloning
  • Staging
  • 1 Click hardening
  • Mass hardening
  • Mass updates
  • Security rollback
  • Smart updates
Email features

Webmail access

All of your email accounts can be securely accessed online via webmail once your accounts have been set up.  If you have don’t have access to your device or PC, you are able to log into your emails online providing you know your username and password from anywhere in the world.

IMAP support

Access, download and synchronise your emails held on the server to your device.  By configuring all your devices with the IMAP protocol when installing onto your devices, you ensure that all devices are always current and synced.  This means you delete an email off one device it auto deletes of them all.

POP3/SMTP access

IMAP is the preferred connection protocol, however we provide POP3 for older legacy devices.  SMTP allows you to use our sever to send emails to your clients.  All your email needs are taken care of within our hosting environment.

Spam solutions

We offer a in house self managed spam filters (powered by SpamAssassin™) .  Identify spam, and send it to a separate folder or automatically delete it from your email account. 

We offer (for minimal costs) a more professional and auto ‘mail washing’ service where spam does not even arrive into your account.  

Emails are securely analysed and scanned by the fully redundant SpamExperts cloud in real time. Threats are quarantined and clean email is sent to the destination mail server.

Please talk to us about our full range of email spam and other addons and benefits.

Full eMail control

Other standard offerings include Auto Responders, Email forwarding/aliases and MX records and email preferences.

cPanel (Control Panel)

cPanel

cPanel provides a range of tools built for to give you the ability to automate web hosting tasks via a simple graphical user interface. Its goal — to make managing hosting space and websites easier for you.

File Manager

The File Manager allows you to view, read and write, copy, delete and more, files from your hosting space from an attractive and easy user interface right from your PC.

DNS Management

Use these tools through the simple to use graphical user interface (GUI) to add, remove or update MX Records, CNames, A Records, TXT Records, etc.

Website statistics

We provide three of the industry leading site analysis tools to help you determine your website’s effectiveness and/or if there are any problems with your site (404 errors).

Choose from:

  • Webalizer
  • AWStats
  • Analog

Access Logs

See who has accessed your site by downloading and analysing your sites Access Logs.  Gain great insight into exactly who is accessing each page of your site with no nonsense raw access logs.

Backup/Restore

JetBackup™

Our Jet Backup™ added service functionality automatically backups your web hosting space and various timeframes.   

Off site backup

All our backups are stored on the AWS servers meaning they are in a different location to your website.  Some plans offer incremental backups as often as at daily intervals.  You can easily restore full account or individuals files with our world class backup system

Quality

JetBackup™ undergoes rigorous quality assurance testing with guidelines in place to ensure the backup engine works as it is intended as as efficiently as possible

Security

JetBackup™ is only one of a handful of backup software solutions that use secure coding practices and regularly have their code base audited by an external provider.

 

Server Specifications

No overcrowding 

We have a maximum number of accounts allowed on each server.  We are constantly monitoring all servers, keeping load to a minimum to allow yours and every website enough resources to fulfil their requests.

Automated setup

Most services can be provisioned automatically and instantly.  

Modern and secure facilities

All of our data centres are maintained at the highest modern standards including 24/7 on site security.

Native IP6 Support

IPv6 is available on supported operating systems and uses hardware based addressing.

DDOS Protection

All of our hosting servers are DDOS protected.  DDOS is not just a problem for the big websites/servers and we acknowledge that even smaller sites and applications need protecting too.