44% bandwidth price cut

Whoo Hooooo!!!! Schweeet! Well done Hetzner! That's good news for Mybb as well!
 
a journey of a 1000 miles starts with one little step [-some random Asian dude]

its starting .... :)
 
Not sure if anyone has noticed the increased quotas from Afrihost? It appears as though they've dropped their per GB rate to R80, though certainly not as ambitious as Hetzners unfortunately. With that said, though, their quotas are rather substantial now, an apparent increase (on the unmanaged dedicated packages) from 5GB to what appears to be 10GB, 15GB and 50GB.
 
...to add to my pointless quip - very happy to start seeing developments like these. I get the feeling Telkom et al are trying to plug the holes in a bursting dam... the more holes they plug, the more cracks form. Revolution will be ours! :mad:
 
Eisen und Blut

rpm said:
44% bandwidth price cut

Local hosting provider Hetzner has cut the price of bandwidth usage to its hosting clients by over 40%
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"nicht günstig; nicht durch Reden und Majoritätsbeschlüsse werden die großen Fragen der Zeit entschieden – das ist der große Fehler von 1848 und 1849 gewesen –, sondern durch Eisen und Blut.“

What is needed in the SA ISP scenario.

Mark Twain's Notebook
Yes, sir, once the German language gets hold of a cat, it's goodbye cat. That's about the amount of it.
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Bismarck and Mark Twain :erm::D

Hetzner Uber Alles :)


MW
 
I don't understand why the latest price cuts are being attributed to the arrival of seacom. The providers that have dropped their prices are not yet using seacom.

Does that mean that there was always a little fat built into the prices? Granted, margins on adsl are miniscule, but one has to wonder where the cuts are actually originating.

End of the day, it is all good though. Hope to see more of the price cuts!
 
It's great that Hetzner finally reviewed the data pricing structure.

Local data caps on dedicated servers are unfortunately still far to low.
 
I think the combination SEACOM + Neotel + DFA + JINX + some serious competition in the data center space (a lot of them is being built) is going to start to pay off soon.

I think the Pareto principle may hold true - to get rid of 80% of Telkom's cost you only need to provide 20% of the network infrastructure. The point is that people can attack the highest cost first. You don't have to be Telkom's size to give Telkom competition in key areas :-)

And so the ball starts rolling - cheaper hosting bandwidth means more local servers, leading to less of a dependency on international bandwidth. Which decreases cost further (especially for ISP's).

I wouldn't be surprised if hosting bandwidth dropped significantly further once all the planned data centers are completed.
 
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