About HostingOZ

We started in the hosting game in 2002, under the name of Decor Products Australia, before changing our name to a more appropriate WI Internet Group P/L, organically growing and debt free, today HostingOZ is one of Australia’s leading web hosting and web development businesses.

Hosting Oz was set up to provide the community with a reliable and full featured web hosting service at an affordable price. We offer Affordable Web Solutions by Dynamic Action & Fanatical Support, Reliability & Professionalism, – World class Products delivered worldwide from Queensland.

Early on we realised that web hosting clients in the small business area needed 24/7 Technical Support, as many did their website work after normal hours. We were one of the early adopters of 24-7 technical support.

A web site is an essential business tool in this era but many small firms and individuals find the task of maintaining, updating and servicing their sites prohibitive. We wanted to provide a service, and solution, which took the upkeep headache away from web site owners and allowed them to get on with the core activities of their businesses and lives.

HostingOZ today has been acknowledged world-wide for its commitment and service to the growing internet community. As a web host provider HostingOZ has won contracts throughout Australia, Canada, United States America and Great Britain. Providing a full suite of web products, and services to micro, home-based, small and medium Website owners. Our Products include Web Hosting, Ecommerce Solutions, Windows Hosting, Dedicated Servers, Reseller Hosting, Domain Name registration and SMS, SEO / SEM services.

Being a company that does not need clients to enter contracts, and that our services can be customised to suit the individual needs, which means that customers get a web solution package that they need, and a package that can be expanded at any time. This allows HostingOZ to be a single web related point of contact for any business, saving businesses time, and money.

We are a web company that actually runs ecommerce sites so when it comes to selling on line, we tell and show you what actually works in our own online stores.

Our client base has grown by organic growth and referrals via friendly word of mouth and our active affiliate system.

Hosting Oz customers now include home businesses, small and medium sized businesses, schools, individuals, community and special interest groups.

In September 2004 HostingOZ was judged by a USA hosting watch dog as being in the top 10 Web Hosts, also in 2004 HostingOZ won the Quest Business Achievers Award (Readers Choice), an award that it also won in 2005 and 2006. In 2006 HostingOZ was inducted into the Quest Business Achievers Hall of Fame.

HostingOZ is a division of W.I. Internet Group P/L

ABN 62 111624054 ACN 111624054

Phone 61 (0)7 3314 6975, Skype user “HostingOZ”

“A web site is an essential business tool in this era but many small firms and individuals find the task of maintaining, updating and servicing their sites prohibitive,”

“I wanted to provide a service which took the upkeep headache away from web site owners and allowed them to get on with the core activities of their businesses and lives.”

How To Secure A WordPress Installation

In this article, you’ll learn how you can secure your WordPress installation with our 5 best security practices. You might ask, “Is it really necessary to have security measures for myWordPress installation?Is it worth the effort? The answer is YES and YES.WordPress is no doubt the most popular blogging and CMS system on the Internet which makes it one of the favourite target victims for hackers.

When you install a WordPress site, it is necessary that you take some extra efforts and have security measures that will protect not only for your data’s safety, but also for your visitors’. You worked hard to build your WordPress website and worked even harder to keep your visitors, if you got hacked without any security measures, you can lose everything you have worked hard for. And it will be very frustrating.


Protect your WordPress Website Installation with these 5 security practices. No technical skills needed.


1.      Always, always, always update your WordPress and plugins to their latest versions.

Most of the common hacks to WordPress sites happen because of outdated WordPress and outdated plugins. WordPress has a very strong community and as soon as vulnerability is detected, it gets plugged. Updating your WordPress and Plugins is a very, very, very easy security practice. No need for technical skills to do this. No excuses for not updating!


2.       Change your Admin Username.
When WordPress is installed, self-installers were asked for admin username and password. Many don’t bother changing their admin username from default “admin”, so what happens is that their sites are hacked easily. This is because most attackers will assume thata WordPress site’s username is “Admin”. So when you install your WordPress, instead of the “admin” username, be creative and use other unique username. If you already have a WordPress site, you can follow the instructions available online on how to change your WordPress username.


3.      Create Strong Passwords.

How hard will it be to think of passwords that are hard to guess, hard to crack? Not at all, right? Just a word, any word, and start it with a capital letter and include some number characters - that easy. However, many still failed to make strong passwords resulting for about 8% of hacked WordPress websites. Avoid doing the same, reduce your risks.


4.      Hide Your Author name from the archive.

By default WordPress displays your username in the URL of your author archive page. For example, if your username is woodyallenblogs, your author archive page would be something likehttp://yoursite.com/author/ woodyallenblogs. Very bad, as hackers will know your username, so hide your author name and reduce your risks.


5.      Limit Login Attempts.

Hackers will try more than once to break into your website so it can be useful to limit the number of failed login attempts from a single IP address. Specify how many retries will be allowed, and how long an IP will be locked out for after too many failed login attempts.

These are just simple, easy, none-code security practices, but even doing one of these practices will make your website a little bit safer from potential hackers. Learn more about website security from the best web hosting in Australia, HostingOz.com.