Telkom Hosting OMFG!

[Karnaugh]

http://www.telkomsa.net/products/web_hosting.jsp

I must have been drinking or accidentaly smoked some weed. because I cant be reading this correctly.

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# 80 MB of server space
# 150 MB of monthly traffic usage
# FTP
# Hosting and daily backups
# Database functionality
# E-commerce infrastructure
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And wait for it...

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">R 655.84 p/m<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett

 

[Perdition]

They're sure pushing that database functionality.... and they must be on crack if they think 150MB of monthly traffic is enough.

 

[Karnaugh]

I push more than that on DNS traffic, someone needs to give Telkom damagement a serious wake up call.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"> They're sure pushing that database functionality.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

What, a MySQL server? Whoop D doo Bazil!

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett

 

[rpm]

Hi

Previously I had a look at their pricing structure since I believed they might give unlimited traffic. I felt the same as Karnaugh about their pricing and general package…they must have lost complete touch with market related pricing!

RPM
rpm@myadsl.co.za

 

[antowan]

Telkom's disregard for the public's needs and this recent post made it clear to me that you have some egotistical maniacs in Telkom who think that they are God's gift to IT in South Africa. They regard us all as idiots who can be guiled into using there meager and mostly crap service options for the price of an arm and a legg!

The fact that South African legistlators are really ignorant (not all of them [] ) doesn't help the situation as far as stopping this behaviour!

He who does not understand the value of war at the right time, cannot comprehend the value of life at any time - Anonymous

 

[James]

It is a sad fact that it is way cheaper to host a site internationaly than in ur own country. I mean WAY cheaper which usually icludeds unlimted trafic or at least 5GB. It is Crazy!!!

There is no peace without war!!!

 

[Karnaugh]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">they must have lost complete touch with market related pricing!<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Forget market related pricing, I think they have lost touch with reality full stop.

We know where Telkom's profit is going, not towards developing telecoms services thats for sure, more along the lines of crack cocain!

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I mean WAY cheaper which usually icludeds unlimted trafic or at least 5GB<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">
Well lets see for the same price as Telkom's offering, you can get a dedicated celeron box (2.4 Ghz, 512mb ram and 60Gb hard drive) on a 100Mb port (with full dedicated access to the internet at generaly no less than 10Mbps).

Unfortunatly they do limit you to 1.2TB per month of transfer (yes, 1,200,000Mb as opposed to telkoms 150Mb)

- Colin Alston
colin at alston dot za dot org

"Getting traffic shaping right is easy and can be summed up in one word: Dont." -- George Barnett

 

[DFantom]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Pr13sT</i>
<br />It is a sad fact that it is way cheaper to host a site internationaly than in ur own country. I mean WAY cheaper which usually icludeds unlimted trafic or at least 5GB. It is Crazy!!!
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Most hosts in SA are cheaper than this joke from Telkom. Intl's are cheaper still, but this is rediculous?
What I want to know is at what point does Telkom over step it's mandate?
I mean they are the telecoms provider, an ISP, and now a hosting provider? Soon they will been opening Pick 'n Telkom, where you can buy your food...

 

[TheRoDent]

http://www.jvds.com/35unmetered.php

Your own Virtual Server, 3Gb of disk, no traffic limit (as in NO limit) 64Mb of ram, and ROOT access.

For just under R300 a month. What is telkom thinking?

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[doekvoet]

R99.99pm
» NO Set-up fee
» Un-metered bandwidth
» 350 MB disk space
» 50 mailboxes
» 50 auto-responders
» formmail.pl
» PHP
» SSI
» FrontPage serv. ext
» 1 MySQL Database
» Control Panel
» Webstats
» Webmail
» Custom Error Documents
» Group Mail

http://www.host4africa.com/

 

[MaD]

We shoulda taken the blue pill.

<font color="navy"><font size="1"><b>Where others have progress, we have Telkom.</b>
Hellkom website - http://telkomsucks.0catch.com</font id="size1"></font id="navy">

 

[TheRoDent]

Now, this should be interesting... Do you think there is anyone that actually HOSTS with Telkom on any of these deals? If there are, I think it is our civic duty to explain to them exactly how they're getting shafted.


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[BTTB]

Jeepers, I had no idea hosting cost this much money. The way it's advertised you swear it was a cheap service. Unlike the account RPM got.
It's time big business put their foot down in SA.

<b><hr noshade size="1"></b><font size="2"><font color="red"><b>You can take Telkom out of the Post Office but you can't take the Post Office out of Telkom.</b></font id="red"></font id="size2">

 

[TheRoDent]

Does anyone know of a company that has fallen for this deal? Anyone know what the main host's IP is so that I can do some reverse DNS digging and find out who the poor suckers are?

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[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

I think the telkom head needs a kick in the *** because he seems to be spending to much time on his VIRTUAL REALITY headset than actually look at REAL REALITY

 

[James]

http://www.netspaceinternet.com/multi-domain-windows-hosting.html#speedweb
still the cheapest hosting option i have seen. And they have the exact same bandwidth as us, go figure. Telkom look at what you should be charging!!!!! The crack u buying is going to ur head.

There is no peace without war!!!

 

[VQuest]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Pr13sT</i>
<br />http://www.netspaceinternet.com/multi-domain-windows-hosting.html#speedweb
still the cheapest hosting option i have seen. And they have the exact same bandwidth as us, go figure. Telkom look at what you should be charging!!!!! The crack u buying is going to ur head.

There is no peace without war!!!
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Unbelievably cheap. Do you have an account with them? Just wondering about the quality of their service and support. Always remembering the phrase "you get what you pay for".


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[Strobemeister]

I can't imagine anyone actually buying the telscum package. They probably get new biz guys who don't really know how much they'll need. Beyond that, i can't imagine anyone in their right mind buying it.

Telkom - South Africa's Handbrake to progress.

 

[James]

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">
Unbelievably cheap. Do you have an account with them? Just wondering about the quality of their service and support. Always remembering the phrase "you get what you pay for".
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No, not yet! I was just researching s clients these days can't afford the prices South African hosting companies charge. I am not blaming them at all, i feel really sorry for them as telkom is killing their business.

But i am sure their customer support will be good they are one of the largest hosting companies in the country.

There is no peace without war!!!

 

[TheRabbi]

try www.host4africa.com for cheap.