{"id":134984,"date":"2015-08-13T09:44:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T07:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=134984"},"modified":"2015-08-13T11:45:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T09:45:09","slug":"isoho-st-cuts-virtual-server-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/134984-isoho-st-cuts-virtual-server-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Isoho.st cuts virtual server prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isoho.st<\/a><\/strong>, a South African virtual private server (VPS)\u00a0startup, has\u00a0reduced its\u00a0prices and changed the structure of its\u00a0packages.<\/p>\n

Included in the price reduction is a re-positioning of packages to be more competitive in a South African market that sees small companies move solutions from on-site services to hosted solutions.<\/p>\n

Pricing now starts at R95 per month for the basic Pluto package, which includes 1TB of network traffic\u00a0per month with extra bandwidth available at R95 per TB\u00a0per month.<\/p>\n

Isoho.st is a no-contract, month-to-month service, and now\u00a0also lets clients add RAM and hard drive\u00a0space to their VPS services for an\u00a0additional cost.<\/p>\n

Isoho.st said it will also soon\u00a0offer clients off-site backups of their VPS servers at R15 per 100GB per month.<\/p>\n

New hosting location, better hardware<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Besides new pricing, there are product\u00a0improvements as well.<\/p>\n

Isoho.st has replaced their hosting hardware infrastructure, and moved from Hetzner to a co-located solution with MWEB Business – owned by Internet Solutions.<\/p>\n

It should be noted that Isoho.st does not resell MWEB Business services, and its customers avoided the recent data loss incident at Internet Solutions<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The migration\u00a0to MWEB Business has allowed Isoho.st to move to bigger hardware as well, which has resulted in an increase in contention ratios per VPS.<\/p>\n

Isoho.st founder Edwin Peer said they used to\u00a0run their\u00a0infrastructure on quad-core servers, but\u00a0now have\u00a032 cores in a single box.<\/p>\n

They have also increased\u00a0the storage network I\/O bandwidth from 1Gbps to 20Gbps for each physical machine.<\/p>\n

“The machines are more contended, but the size of the contended pie has significantly increased. This is also why we quote CPU contention per core, rather than per machine,” he said.<\/p>\n

Peer said\u00a0VM performance has improved since launch, with users measuring in the region of four times\u00a0the I\/O bandwidth they used to get.<\/p>\n

Pricing breakdown – old vs new<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\n
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
VM<\/td>\nPluto<\/td>\nMercury<\/td>\nMars<\/td>\nNeptune<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Old<\/strong><\/td>\nNew<\/strong><\/td>\nOld<\/strong><\/td>\nNew<\/strong><\/td>\nOld<\/strong><\/td>\nNew<\/strong><\/td>\nOld<\/strong><\/td>\nNew<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Price<\/strong><\/td>\nR125<\/td>\nR95<\/td>\nR225<\/td>\nR195<\/td>\nR425<\/td>\nR295<\/td>\nR1,625<\/td>\nR895<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU<\/strong><\/td>\n800Mhz<\/td>\n1 VCPU<\/td>\n1.6Ghz<\/td>\n2 VCPUs<\/td>\n3.2Ghz<\/td>\n4 VCPUs<\/td>\nQuad\u00a03.2Ghz<\/td>\n12 VCPUs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
RAM<\/strong><\/td>\n512MB<\/td>\n512MB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\n2GB<\/td>\n8GB<\/td>\n16GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Disk<\/strong><\/td>\n50GB<\/td>\n50GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\n200GB<\/td>\n150GB<\/td>\n800GB<\/td>\n500GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Network<\/strong><\/td>\n50GB<\/td>\n1TB<\/td>\n100GB<\/td>\n2TB<\/td>\n250GB<\/td>\n3TB<\/td>\n1TB<\/td>\n9TB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The package changes and price reductions are not uniform\u00a0across the board, and there are four new packages that make up gaps in the new offerings.<\/p>\n

The flagship offering is now the 32-CPU Jupiter with 128GB RAM, 4TB disk space, and 64TB network transfer at R6,495 per month.<\/p>\n

More hosting and storage news<\/h3>\n

Here is what happens to old hosting server hard drives<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Unlimited web traffic from Axxess<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Free unlimited storage on Google Photos launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hetzner partners with DFA to offer greater ISP choice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Mega Continuity \u2013 full server cabinet on 100Mbps for R10,000<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South African virtual private service platform Isoho.st has announced significant changes to its product line-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4754,"featured_media":134986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,4364,18684],"class_list":["post-134984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-edwin-peer","tag-isoho-st"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135004,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134984\/revisions\/135004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}