Local hosting bandwidth for under R1 per GB

Getting better

Hmm looks like the potential to host content locally is getting better. Though were still paying about that for an uncapped 100M hosting over seas.

Though as we grow it would be nice to use this to host the Podcast.

I am wondering if this is possibly in response to the uncapped accounts and there being less reason to host locally.

The only benefit becoming lower latency and your content not being down when the international bandwidth problem occurs again :)
 
Incredible! 1000gb for R999, 2 years ago people would have paid R20,000 for that just wish mobile price's would come down then that would be great...
 
I wonder why there's no listed Upload Price per GB - since most of the traffic a website uses is typically outbound ;)
 
Failkov explained that he purchases symmetrical transmission capacity (hence the same amount of bandwidth up and down) for ADSL, and since ADSL is an asymmetric service he typically used far more downlink capacity than uplink capacity.
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Can cybersmart confirm :
1) Contention ratios on this bandwidth?
2) Quality of bandwidth?
3) What speeds are you guaranteed?
5) Internet servers generally use a 70/30 for outgoing / imcoming traffic, thus making the download amounts given pretty much useless as you will never hit them.?
6) What is the over usage charge on bandwidth?
 
For less than R 3899 a month I can get a fully managed dedicated server in the US with 2 x 6 x 2.0 GHz CPU, 16GB RAM, 3 x 750 GB Hardware-RAID 5 and 6000 GB bandwidth.

While I appreciate local hosts becoming competitive with their prices, it will be a long time before I trust them with my websites.
 
My dedicated server costs me $180 a month and includes 2TB bandwidth as well as R1Soft backups. Why would anybody want to pay more to get less?
 
Well done Cybersmart! It's great to see another ISP innovating in their services and helping to make local hosting a competitive and affordable market. This is a step forward in the right direction.
 
This is progress but compared to what somw users have stated above it is very hard to justify going local.

Possitive but still lagging our international peers.

I still find it laughable that the local bandwidth is costing more than the international portion.

How can this be ICASA????!!!!!
 
I was with Cybersmart for several years with a number of hosted accounts. One day in March they unilaterally decided to change the terms and conditions downgraded my mailboxes down from 2 GB to fit within the size of the hosting packages (50 MB). I immediately called and asked for time to find another service provider but they had already started the process without prior warning.

I have since cancelled with them as their service is unpredictable.

The packages do look attractive ... but with their history, I'm not so sure.
 
Not even close to what you can get overseas, and once the fiber link between JHB and Durban goes live in July it will even be better. These local guys have to come to the party. That said, well at least local hosting is going in the right direction.
 
Compared to other ISP's local hosting this is giving it away, I can't see how people can still be complaining.
 
Murmaider said:
Can cybersmart confirm :
1) Contention ratios on this bandwidth?
2) Quality of bandwidth?
3) What speeds are you guaranteed?
5) Internet servers generally use a 70/30 for outgoing / imcoming traffic, thus making the download amounts given pretty much useless as you will never hit them.?
6) What is the over usage charge on bandwidth?
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I second this request for confirmation on these details, there is always some catch to unlimited/uncapped/really cheap.

And all you guys stating the obvious that SA hosting is expensive; "I got XX TB of data for YY.YY per month bla bla", we all know it is expensive in SA but for various reasons local hosting is used by some. Why not add to the discussion on local hosting?
 
“This is not the case. The content providers want to charge us for peering, some of them at a higher rate than what it costs to get bandwidth internationally - so we figured if we have to pay for our users to collect content from other providers it would be cheaper to create our own content which is exactly what we are doing.”
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Hmmm... Everyone wants a [HUGE] piece of the pie. Typical greedy South Africans. :mad:
 
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