IInet.net.au Exchange 1, AUD 2.95/mo. on Windows Exchange

Exchange 1 has been updated on December 26, 2020 (added August 20, 2018)

🔌 Hosted domains :	unlimited
🆓 free domains :	0
📌 Dedicated IPs :	0
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-Free
🌏 Server Locations :	Australia
⚑ Targeting :	AU

See also initial Exchange 1 plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

📄 Editorial Review

iiNet is best seen today as a major Australian telecom and internet brand that still happens to run a hosting platform, rather than a dedicated hosting provider that also sells connectivity. Founded in 1993 and now part of TPG Telecom, they’ve grown from a Perth dial-up outfit into a national ISP with NBN, fibre, VDSL2, cable, fixed wireless and mobile services – and hosting has come along for the ride as a bolt-on service for existing customers.

Their Hosting & Domains range is still officially active and documented: the Customer Relationship Agreement and pricing tables (shared across iiNet, Westnet and other brands) explicitly list shared hosting, domains, VPS and "Business Cloud" as current products as of late 2025. But the platform feels conservative and legacy-style: traditional shared hosting, fixed-spec VPS, a metered VM cloud, Exchange email and SSL reselling, with modest resource limits and little of the automation or developer-centric tooling you see from modern specialist hosts.

For Australian businesses that already rely on iiNet for internet and phones, that can be perfectly fine. Everything – line rental, NBN, domains, hosting, email, SSL – lands on one bill and is handled under one CRA. For someone coming in purely for hosting, however, iiNet’s offer looks like a solid but dated option that trades convenience and brand familiarity for smaller quotas and higher overage charges than many newer alternatives.

PRICE & COST

iiNet prices hosting and domains in Australian dollars, generally GST-inclusive, so domestic customers don’t get caught by surprise at checkout.

Domains & DNS add-ons

The domain catalogue is compact but covers the essentials for Australian businesses:

• .com.au / .net.au – sold in 2-year blocks at about AUD 22 per year (minimum AUD 44).
• .org.au, .asn.au, .id.au – slightly cheaper, reflecting not-for-profit and personal use.
• Generic TLDs (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .info) – around AUD 30 per year.
• Premium/other (.mobi, .co.nz, .co.uk, .asia) – higher pricing, with some requiring multi-year terms (.mobi/.co.nz around AUD 75/year, .co.uk as a 2-year commitment).

Domains are registered via partner registrars (Melbourne IT, DistributeIT, Domainz and others) but managed through iiNet’s own account environment.
DNS and mail-relay extras are billed annually:

• DNS Hosting – AUD 25 / year
• Secondary DNS Hosting – AUD 25 / year
• Mail Relay – AUD 65 / year
• Bundle (DNS + Mail Relay) – AUD 90 / year

These suit customers running their own infrastructure but wanting iiNet as a secondary DNS/mail provider.

Shared Web Hosting

The shared "Web Hosting 1–3" plans are straightforward and a bit old-school:

• Web Hosting 1 – AUD 16 / month or AUD 160 / year
• Web Hosting 2 – AUD 19 / month or AUD 190 / year
• Web Hosting 3 – AUD 30 / month or AUD 300 / year

Across the range you get:

• 10–20 GB disk space
• 100–200 GB monthly traffic
• A small pool of MySQL databases
• Choice of Windows or Linux
• Parallels (Plesk-style) control panel
• File manager and basic backup capability
• Support for common CMS platforms like WordPress and Joomla

A key detail is bandwidth overage: excess traffic is charged at about AUD 0.06 per MB – that’s roughly AUD 60 per GB, which is very steep by modern hosting standards. Any site with variable or spiky traffic needs to be monitored carefully.

SSL Certificates

iiNet resells commercial SSL products at typical enterprise-style prices:

• QuickSSL Premium (single hostname) – AUD 139 / year
• True BusinessID (two hostnames) – AUD 199 / year
• True BusinessID EV – AUD 249 / year
• True BusinessID Wildcard – AUD 699 / year

These are natural add-ons for customers who want everything – connectivity, hosting and SSL – from the same provider.

Email Hosting & Hosted Exchange

iiNet separates hosting-style email from their broadband-bundled legacy mailboxes:

• Business Email / Business Pro – per-mailbox monthly pricing, with options to increase storage via "Pro Plus" upgrades (e.g. 2 GB, 5 GB). Includes webmail, spam/virus filtering, mobile access and standard groupware features.
• Hosted Exchange – starts around AUD 2.95 / mailbox / month for a 3 GB mailbox and AUD 6.95 for 25 GB, with Outlook Web Access, POP/IMAP, and mobile sync (ActiveSync/MAPI). Some plans include desktop Outlook licences at extra cost.

This fits small businesses that want email on their own domain but don’t want to maintain Exchange servers themselves.

VPS & Business Cloud

The VPS product line is small and decidedly "legacy VPS" rather than cloud:

• VPS 1 – AUD 29.95 / month, ~512 MB RAM, 1 GHz CPU, 20 GB storage, 50 GB traffic
• VPS 2 – AUD 49.95 / month, ~1 GB RAM, 2 GHz CPU, 30 GB storage, 100 GB traffic
• VPS 3 – AUD 99.95 / month, ~2 GB RAM, 3 GHz CPU, 50 GB storage, 250 GB traffic

These are suitable for simple applications, internal tools or low-traffic web apps; they’re not pitched as high-performance nodes. Customers are responsible for OS patching, security and backups unless they bolt on managed services.
The Business Cloud platform is more flexible but still quite traditional. Instead of buying a single fixed VPS, you choose one of four cloud tiers (Cloud 1–4) with minimum monthly charges from about AUD 29 up to AUD 349, and within each tier you pay:

• Per GHz-hour of CPU
• Per GB-hour of RAM
• Per GB of storage (around AUD 0.18 / GB)
• Per GB of bandwidth (around AUD 0.12 / GB)
• AUD 3 / month per external IP

Windows VMs incur hourly licensing fees; Linux is free. It’s a metered VM platform aimed at technically comfortable teams rather than a polished, "click-and-go" cloud like you get from hyperscalers.

Refunds & Payments

iiNet’s hosting follows the same Customer Relationship Agreement as their internet services:

• Charges are billed in advance or arrears depending on type; overpayments for cancelled services can be refunded on a pro-rata basis.
• There is no prominent "30-day money-back guarantee" for hosting plans; cancellations and refunds are handled under general CRA rules, not hosting-specific satisfaction guarantees.

Payment methods include direct debit and credit card, with potential surcharges on card payments. Everything is managed via the Toolbox customer portal or through standard invoicing, and the usual late-payment and recovery-cost clauses apply.

DATA CENTER

• Hosting & Domains services are operated by iiNet and related TPG group companies inside Australia and governed by Australian law.
• IP addresses remain the property of iiNet or its suppliers and can be changed; customers get temporary use only, with obligations around abuse and security.
• Security clauses highlight that customers must not interfere with iiNet systems or networks, and iiNet can suspend or terminate services in case of abuse, malicious traffic or security incidents.

For shared hosting, backup is described in simple terms (two backups are mentioned in plan specs) and iiNet explicitly tells customers to maintain their own copies of important data. For VPS and Business Cloud, backups, patching and hardening are entirely the customer’s job unless they contract extra management.