Gasping for bandwidth

Not to promote anyone here, but I'm doing my hosting overseas with .NET support, 2000GB bandwidth limit and 350MB space.

This is the provider's entry level package and costs a mere 15USD per YEAR.
This is about R100 per year. The cheapest hosting in SA doesnt compare on any of the above mentioned specs. The cheapies doesnt have .NET support and also very limited bandwidth and server space.

I understand the delema, but there's no way I'm going to host in SA just for the sake of being a Proudly South African. Sorry....
 
All Telkom has to do is make local bandwidth free (or very very very cheap, I'm talking a few cents for a Gig). If the data doesn't go through SAT-3 there is no reason whatsoever, except for Telkom's naked greed, for it to cost R60-R70 a Gig.

PS: I also host overseas. R1000 a year for five websites and Gigs of bandwidth and storage...
 
“Our developers do not have the freedom to develop new services and new skills, and the result is our IT industry becomes internationally uncompetitive,” said Muller.
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Dont worry rpm, to quote our Deputy Minister from a report a month or so ago, the situation is all under control. :rolleyes:

The commencement of the Acts gives us a clear indication for the rapid modernisation of the ICT sector that would put us at the forefront in the global development of the ICT sector," says Deputy Minister of Communications, Mr Radhakrishna Padayachie.
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edit: to add, I pay $7.77 pm for 20000MB storage and 400GB transfer/traffic a month.
 
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The high cost of bandwidth is introducing a lot of techies to the options available elsewhere.

It will be hard to get them to return to SA - the cost and schlepp of reconfiguring everything (DNS etc) as well as users (eg POP3) will call for a massive difference between the SA and international options.

I've been using international servers for more than a year and recommend it.

I've just given notice to my local ISP that I'm cancelling my contract here... it is much cheaper to move abroad... with no intention to return my server needs.
 
Sneeky said:
edit: to add, I pay $7.77 pm for 20000MB storage and 400GB transfer/traffic a month.
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My crystal ball says powweb?

I cant justify hosting locally - sorry :o - but that doesnt mean SA content or development suffers.
 
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Registering and maintaining domain names also seemed to be much more expensive locally.
 
bwana v.15 said:
I cant justify hosting locally - sorry :o - but that doesnt mean SA content or development suffers.
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Local skills could suffer if you host locally. If you host overseas you can use the full range of services available.
 
Leased line prices have gone down a few times the past year yet hosts still insist on charging the same price for bandwidth.

My site will stay overseas, or when a host starts using the SNO's bandwidth then I will move it back to SA. 5GB transfer for R439 is way far from affordable, so for R149 I get 40GB from Germany. Das is zehr gut.
 
henno said:
Where did u get that?
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Thats what the registrar (co.za) charges now per annum - they dropped the registration fee a while back.

For hosting I also pay $7.77 per month - I cant afford high prices (and getting less bang for my buck) like MaD can. ;) :p
 
bwana v.15 said:
Thats what the registrar (co.za) charges now per annum - they dropped the registration fee a while back.

For hosting I also pay $7.77 per month - I cant afford high prices (and getting less bang for my buck) like MaD can. ;) :p
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sorry this is a bit of the topic, but my renewal date is coming. Where do u recommend I renew my domain?\


Thanks
 
henno said:
sorry this is a bit of the topic, but my renewal date is coming. Where do u recommend I renew my domain?\


Thanks
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Normally I would have pm'ed you but you have those switched off.

go to http://co.za and check your domain details. You should be able to renew it directly with the registrar - just remember to fax them the details after you've done it.

You'll find all the banking details here - http://co.za/banking.shtml

and info regarding the price changes here - http://co.za/news/2005/nov-price-decrease.shtml

Your host may have included renewals in your package price so best you check that first.
 
Price isn't a major concern for me. I currently pay R6500+ a month for hosting internationally (The SA price wouldn't be much more).
What does concern me is the complete lack of quality in SA. Nothing, absolutly nothing compares to Rackspace.
But then again, not much compares internationally with Rackspace either
 
However, with developers simply moving their websites overseas, it means that revenue that used to remain in South Africa is leaving the country and South Africans are accessing locally produced websites via costly international bandwidth, unnecessarily using up capacity on the SAT-3 undersea cable.

“All this content made for South Africans by South Africans must travel through the SAT-3, using the valuable resource that is the international cable,” said Rudolph Muller from MyADSL.
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Plain shortsightedness on somebody's part... :rolleyes: how stupid can this get?
 
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