Hosting question

[Highflyer_GP]

With local only ADSL accounts costing (say) R140pm, is it not possible to provide reasonably cheap hosting services on the IS backbone where local data is far cheaper than on the SAIX backbone? Say for instance R150pm with 20GB traffic allowance? Or is this not how it would work?

 

[Syndyre]

AFAIK most sites hosted locally are hosted with IS, not sure why we get charged so much though, think its because they don't differentiate between local and intl traffic.

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Ok well I guess the question is if IS can provide affordable rates for ADSL local data, why do they charge so much more for hosting data allowance? I mean a byte is still a byte, a GB is still a GB.

 

[bullfrog]

It would be very unique for a host to offer a hosting package for local only. I doubt they'll ever do it as it just doesn't make sense. We shouldn't be forced to differentiate between local and international bandwidth, but we do because of Telkoms pricing.

 

[Highflyer_GP]

I think I get it, so they have to charge the rate for international data regardless of whether or not it's hosted locally?

 

[Syndyre]

Basically yeah.

Edit:

Its not so much a matter of whether its hosted locally, you can get much cheaper traffic for intl data if the server's based overseas, but if it is based locally they assume all traffic is international.

 

[bullfrog]

Like said above, basically yeah. And then all the local usage will make up their profit margin.

 

[Highflyer_GP]

Its not so much a matter of whether its hosted locally, you can get much cheaper traffic for intl data if the server's based overseas, but if it is based locally they assume all traffic is international.

Yip that's basically what I meant. Wanted to know if they assume traffic on local servers to be local or international. Thanks