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Heya

At the moment my cloud is with Afrihost but R7 per gig seems a bit much i have read that there is places that are cheaper but still local but no where i could find reasonable Cloud servers hosted in SA as i need low ping.

Currently i need a min of 60gig hdd and 70+ gig BW, the package im on has 100g hdd and 50 gig BW.

The closest i can find to that was cybersmart and elitehost

Is there any other place that i can look at,

Or would the best be to get a Box and drop it at a Data Center and pay for stand and BW

Regards
Rainer
 
Afrihost is your best bet for cloud hosting. You can try RSAweb, but I would stick with Afrihost.

However, if you are not looking for a cloud hosted vps and just a normal vps you can try http://www.vps.co.za/. Im not sure if Mweb do VPS`s, but as far as hosts go, they have the best bandwidth pricing for hosting.

Elitehost offer normal VPS`s, not cloud VPS`s by the look of things.
 
Hi ghoti,

Thanks for the reply, Cloud Hosting or normal will be fine as long as it is in SA since game servers needs low ping
 
Geniside said:
Hi ghoti,

Thanks for the reply, Cloud Hosting or normal will be fine as long as it is in SA since game servers needs low ping
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Well, bandwidth is going to be super important for you, so right now elitehost is looking very sexy. I avoid Cybersmart as they are ADSL providers and I have had a bad experience with them so I wont use them again. Generally I avoid using people who supply both ADSL and hosting (personal preference). I prefer specialists who concentrate on their field.
 
Afrihost all the way. By far the best VPS provider in SA and the best value for money.
 
deweyzeph said:
Afrihost all the way. By far the best VPS provider in SA and the best value for money.
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I'm with Afrihost at the moment but Data is killing me, and will be the downfall atm.

Have spoken to Elitehost now aswell, unfortunately they are out of OpenVZ nodes
 
deweyzeph said:
What do you mean data is killing you?
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I have 50 gig cap and i use 70 gigs+ a month with me managing Teamspeak and Gameservers on Closed locked servers.

It grows rapidly and i already have requests where i need to be able to support double what i am atm
 
deweyzeph said:
That's hardly Afrihost's fault. You get 50GB with their lowest package, and overages are R7 per GB. Pretty sweet deal if you look at the other offerings out there.
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That is the reason im here so see if there isn't something that charges lower for data, as 50gb ain't enough
 
deweyzeph said:
That's hardly Afrihost's fault. You get 50GB with their lowest package, and overages are R7 per GB. Pretty sweet deal if you look at the other offerings out there.
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No one said it was their fault. He has more needs than what Afrihosts pricing structure allows for. I use Afrihost as well. Never had a problem with them. I dont use a ton of bandwidth though.
 
They are good but with the Current user base doubling its going to become very costly to me, as i dont charge for the services i am giving
 
stricken said:
Amazon AWS ftw.
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Yes, if you distribute a lot of data, then a CDN like Amazon Cloudfront (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/) or Akamai (http://www.akamai.com/) may help. See http://www.cdnplanet.com/ for more options. You can use this in conjunction with a local provider, but with the bigger artifacts being distributed by the CDN, so that they do not eat your local bandwidth.

But if your traffic is mostly Teamspeak, then a CDN will not help. Hosting Teamspeak on Amazon EC2 in Dublin will give lower bandwidth costs, but I am not sure what the latency will be. Might be OK, given the number of cables we have running in that direction these days. Maybe try it out on the EC2 free tier and see how it goes. And with EC2, you pay for the exact bandwidth you use.
 
gkm said:
Yes, if you distribute a lot of data, then a CDN like Amazon Cloudfront (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/) or Akamai (http://www.akamai.com/) may help. See http://www.cdnplanet.com/ for more options. You can use this in conjunction with a local provider, but with the bigger artifacts being distributed by the CDN, so that they do not eat your local bandwidth.

But if your traffic is mostly Teamspeak, then a CDN will not help. Hosting Teamspeak on Amazon EC2 in Dublin will give lower bandwidth costs, but I am not sure what the latency will be. Might be OK, given the number of cables we have running in that direction these days. Maybe try it out on the EC2 free tier and see how it goes. And with EC2, you pay for the exact bandwidth you use.
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Thank you for all the help, i was able to speak with Elite Hosting and they found a nice little package that they dont normaly advertise on the Web apparently, Hosted in JHB with uncapped data.
 
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