Hostingbay proudly announces the release of the following products and services:

* Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

* Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Program

* IT Support

Search Engine Optimization

Introduction to SEO

In the modern era, an Internet presence has become essential and expected for most businesses and organisations. Whether you are a freelancing individual, small/medium business or large corporation, there are many reasons to have a website.

Websites has no geographical boundary and offers 24/7 marketing over a medium which continue to grow at phenomenal rates. Globally, the Internet has over 1.6 billion users, penetrating 23.8 percent of the world's population and still growing at a staggering rate of 342 percent (between 2000 to 2008). Within Australia, an estimate of 16 million households has Internet access, a population penetration of roughly 80 percent.

Although the Internet offers a huge base for potential clients globally and locally, there is an estimated 200 million website in which some may be competing businesses. Unless your company's a well known brand or uses extensive marketing campaigns (and often expensive), the chance of a user keying in your website address is very remote. Research on search engine user behaviour show 90 percent of users won't browse past the third page of SERP (Search Engine Results Page). If your website isn't in the first few pages of search results, then your website will likely be hidden away.

If your website isn't in the first few pages of search results, then your website will likely be hidden away. We can help improve your website's visibility through SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), an art and science of enhancing websites to attain higher ranking in SERP.

Benefits of SEO

SEO can improve your marketability by:

* Increasing your website's visibility resulting in more visitor's to your website
* Quality traffic is directed to your website as keywords closely relates to your product and services
* Low-cost advertising that works for you 24/7

What our SEO service includes

1. Web Page Enhancement Assistance

Our technicians will assist you to modify your pages to optimally communicate your keywords with search engines. Moreover, all aspects of a Website, including its architecture, META tags, ALT tags, graphic-text, internal link structure and sub-pages will be modified to be spider friendly and best meet search engine algorithms.

Please kindly note that you need to work with us to get your site popular, such as to update your website contents frequently, to have substantial content on your site, etc.

2. Link Development

One of the major variables in attaining high rankings is developing incoming links from other Websites that are well established and have commonality with your Website. As a major part of the service that we offer, link development is absolutely essential to the success of your Website and can be done in various ways. One-way links from Directories and other related sites, Reciprocal Link Exchange with related sites, fee-based directory submissions and targeted link buys are all effective ways of developing quality links in high quantity.

3. Submission

After the optimization process is complete, we will submit your Website to all the major search engines and directories, including Yahoo, Google, MSN, Alexa, etc. In addition to these submissions we add fee-based directories, article directories, social bookmarks, etc.

And lastly, if your Website has indexing issues, we will create and submit site maps to Google or Yahoo via their respective programs. Please kindly note that we will require some unique articles related to your website when do article submission.

4. Reporting

Once optimization is complete, we run reports again every 30 days to check on the progress of your Website - you will be updated on these monthly ranking report results via e-mail.

SEO cases:

1. Hostingbay.com.au
"hosting" in Top 3
"Web hosting" in Top 10
"linux web hosting" in Top 10
"asp web hosting" in Top 10

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PCI COMPLIANCE

What is PCI COMPLIANCE ?

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Program (PCI DSS) is a security standard that includes requirements for security management, policies, procedures, network architecture, software design and other critical protective measures. This comprehensive standard is intended to assist organizations proactively protect their customer's information.

The core of the PCI DSS is a set of principles and accompanying requirements, around which the specific elements of the DSS are organized:

Build and Maintain a Secure Network

Requirement 1: Install and maintain a firewall configuration to protect cardholder data
Requirement 2: Do not use vendor-supplied defaults for system passwords and other security parameters

Protect Cardholder Data

Requirement 3: Protect stored cardholder data
Requirement 4: Encrypt transmission of cardholder data across open, public networks

Maintain a Vulnerability Management Program

Requirement 5: Use and regularly update anti-virus software
Requirement 6: Develop and maintain secure systems and applications

Implement Strong Access Control Measures

Requirement 7: Restrict access to cardholder data by business need-to-know
Requirement 8: Assign a unique ID to each person with computer access
Requirement 9: Restrict physical access to cardholder data

Regularly Monitor and Test Networks

Requirement 10: Track and monitor all access to network resources and cardholder data
Requirement 11: Regularly test security systems and processes

Maintain an Information Security Policy

Requirement 12: Maintain a policy that addresses information security

Hostingbay provides hosting service or configure and manage your hosting environment to comply with the PCI DSS and is verified and audited using independent certified third party providers under the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard Program.

Prices:
Cost of scanning and assessment $299
Cost of configuring and bring server to compliancy from $500 - $2000 depending of the amount of work required

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IT Support

Desktop Support

We support the following desktop operating systems (but not limited to):

• Microsoft Windows 98
• Microsoft Windows 98SE
• Microsoft Windows ME
• Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows 7
• Linux KDE and Gnome
  

Server Support

We support the following server operating systems (but not limited to):

• Linux ¨C Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora
• Windows 2003
• Windows 2000
• Windows 2008
• Windows 2008 R2
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003/2007/2010
• Remote Server management and VPN
  

Application Support

We support the following application packages (but not limited to):

• Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2007/2010
• Other Microsoft suite of products
• Computer Associates suite of products
• Symantec suite of products
• MYOB suite of products and many more
  

Device and Servers Support

We support the following network infrastructure devices (but not limited to):

• D-Link
• Netgear
• Fortinet
• Sonic Wall
• Linksys
• Intel
• Dell
• HP
• Cisco
• Voip hardware
• Custom build gateway protection and more
  

Prices:
$120/hour
Remote $100/hour

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