Afrihost cuts cloud hosting prices

Meh. More hosters need to start getting into uncapped hosting. It sucks when you worry your website's going to get too many hits cos you have to pay for them. Mweb's dedicated servers start at <R700 incl hardware and uncapped traffic. You'd expect the competition to have at least one uncapped hosting package for their "platinum" product or something.
 
Whats the difference between this and dropbox at R80 p/m for 50 gigs?

Local?
 
Madman88 said:
Whats the difference between this and dropbox at R80 p/m for 50 gigs?

Local?
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Dropbox isn't usable for serving anything. If you direct even a moderate amount of traffic towards stuff hosted on it it bombs with a usage restriction.

If you just need a place to park 50 gigs then amazon is likely to be best.
 
Looks like they only offer CentOS and it does not say which version of CentOS. Seriously good pricing for the storage and RAM. I'd like to see how these systems actually perform in terms of I/O and CPU. Anybody have any experience?

--deckert
 
Deckert said:
Looks like they only offer CentOS and it does not say which version of CentOS. Seriously good pricing for the storage and RAM. I'd like to see how these systems actually perform in terms of I/O and CPU. Anybody have any experience?

--deckert
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I didn't see the CentOS thing, bugger. Hopefully they will add some other distros soon. On performance, probably pretty good as I would assume it is all new hardware and designed properly, but it would be nice to see some real figures. Note they use NAS not SAN, so access will not be as fast for data retrieval, but for the target market they are aiming at I doubt it is a problem. If you really need a high grade solution you are not going to be bothered to spend a bit more to get it.
 
THe image in the article cut off the left column heading column.
afrihost

The base web traffic allowance is much better than there non cloud packages but still unlimited traffic (at least local unlimited) would be nice.
 
Anyone contemplating "Cloud Computing" should be weary. MegaUpload being threatend with all there uploaders data is a good example.
 
Seems to be a large amount of people comparing cloud hosting to file sharing in this discussion. It's a virtual machine with Linux on it, intended usage is for hosting services and not really file sharing.

The pricing looks good, I am just weary of the ram situation. What kind of overcommit are they doing to give the low package 4GB worth, somebody else mentioned NAS and not SAN as well. So disk I/O could be choppy at times, but then again, you have ram.
 
MadCatZA said:
Anyone contemplating "Cloud Computing" should be weary. MegaUpload being threatend with all there uploaders data is a good example.
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Why? It's not a remotely relevant example at all. Unless you're suggesting that the Afrihost guys are using their own servers for illegal purposes and creating tons of incriminating emails between themselves. Then Megaupload would be a good example.
 
Prices are good, but test disk IO very carefully before moving. The storage fabric of their SAN is notoriously congested. If you are running a secondary DNS server or something similar this is probably perfect but for a database heavy website it might be VERY slow. Do testing or don't complain about it here later.
 
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