The number of companies offering web services on the internet is uncountable. Unfortunately, the market appears to have divided between desperately cheap (with a feature list and customer support rating to match), and hideously expensive. Cheap web hosting is a classic example - while some companies advertise hundreds of gigabytes of space and bandwidth for a couple of dollars per month, service is frequently unreliable and slow, and support is nonexistent.

Labyrinth Shell Accounts provide a quick and affordable way to have a remote, fully-featured Linux system at your fingertips. We focus on support and reliability to ensure that you get the best service you can get for your money. If you're looking for hosting for a specific service (such as Subversion or MySQL), have a look at our Service Hosting Plans.

Stable and Secure
All our servers run hardened Debian Linux, for security, stability and speed. We employ full firewalling of all nonvital ports and advanced intrusion detection, and our servers are hosted in a secure colocation facility with two levels of redundant power, internet and air conditioning. We employ RAID-5 for data security and our servers are monitored remotely with technicians automatically alerted of any failures. We perform nightly backups of user data. On top of this, we provide a guarantee that your website will be available 99.9% of the time or we will give you a month of free hosting¹. Does anyone else even come close to that level of service? We didn't think so.

Hardware
A slow webpage is possibly worse than no webpage at all; clients will simply get fed up and go somewhere else. We understand this at Labyrinth Data Services - to ensure absolute top-notch performance our servers are strictly kept at no more than 75% of peak capacity. Our hardware includes:

• High Performance Dual-Dual-Core-Opteron Servers running hardened Debian Linux
• 4GB+ ECC RAM
• 1000GB RAID5 HDD
• Space is undersold: we maintain free space and capacity on all our servers for optimum performance.

Software
In addition to a full complement of text editors (VI/VIM, nano, Emacs² and others) and other shell utilities we provide the following as standard with all plans:

• Linux 2.6
• Apache 2.0
• MySQL 4.1
• PHP 4.3
• Perl 5.8
• Python 2.3
• Latex
• Subversion

Our technicians are more than happy to install additional software on request, after a security evaluation.

Extras can be selected during the signup process and will be added to your account each month (or year, in the case of domains).

All prices quoted are in Australian Dollars (AUD$1 ~ USD$0.92) and include 10% GST

¹ Uptime is measured at the end of each month. Should our uptime over this period fall below 99.9% as measured by us we will credit the equivilent dollar value for that month of service to your account. See our Terms of Service for details.

² ...though we're not sure why anyone would want emacs - the server already has an operating system!

³ Only uploads and downloads from your webpage and subversion repositories are included in this total. Uploads and downloads from your shell account are free.

⁴ This is the number of domains (ie. yourname.com, yourname.net) you can link to your account without additional cost. Domain registration is not included - we can register your domain for you (see extras table above) or you can register it yourself. We recommend GoDaddy and NetRegistry, though any good registrar should work.

⁵ If you choose this option, we will register the domain of your choice on your behalf and add it to your account each period. This means only one invoice to deal with each billing period. We will require up-to-date contact information to supply to the domain registrar; this will be detailed during the signup process. Note that Labyrinth Data Services is not a domain registrar and simply resells other registrars products for your convenience; you are free to use another registrar of your choice and point the domain at our nameservers. We recommend GoDaddy and NetRegistry for international and Australian domains respectively, though any good registrar should work. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us at sales@labyrinthdata.net.au.

⁶ If you choose this option, we will register the domain of your choice on your behalf and add it to your account each period. This means only one invoice to deal with each billing period. We will require up-to-date contact information to supply to the domain registrar; this will be detailed during the signup process. Due to Australia's strict domain name regulations, Australian .com.au or .net.au domains will also require the applicable Australian business ABN, BRN or BN. Domain names must also be an exact match, acronym or abbreviation of the supplied business registration, or it should bear a close and substantial connection to the domain name. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us at sales@labyrinthdata.net.au.

For .org.au or .asn.au domains you must supply relevent charity or non-profit organisation details, and the domain must display a solid relationship to the charity it represents. .id.au domains are specifically for individuals, and you must also supply details proving that the domain you wish to register represents a solid link to your real name. If you have any queries about any domain, please don't hesitate to contact us at sales@labyrinthdata.net.au.