{"id":18203,"date":"2011-02-02T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T13:30:00","slug":"new-and-cheaper-virtual-hosting-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/18203-new-and-cheaper-virtual-hosting-services.html","title":{"rendered":"New and cheaper virtual hosting services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyBroadband recently reported that MWEB Business is set to launch affordable <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/18125-MWEB-planning-affordable-virtual-hosting-service.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MWEB planning affordable virtual hosting service\">virtual dedicated server hosting products<\/a> with aggressive pricing plans.<\/p>\n<p>Within hours of this news going live MyBroadband received news from both <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307435-Afrihost\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Afrihost\">Afrihost<\/a> and Gamco that they have also unveiled their latest dedicated cloud server offerings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226232-Gamco\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Gamco\">Gamco<\/a>, which already has 200 clients using their VMware Enterprise infrastructure, announced significant price cuts to its dedicated cloud server offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Gamco&rsquo;s dedicated cloud server pricing starts at R499 per month for an entry level product (1 CPU, 512 KB RAM, 20GB storage and 5GB traffic) and goes up to R3,253 for a high end service (2 CPUs, 4GB RAM, 200GB storage and 50GB traffic).<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost also announced their &#8216;cloud hosting&#8217; offering, starting at R590 per month for a low end service (0.5 vCPU, 1GB RAM, 25GB storage and 10GB traffic) and going up to R1,990 per month for a high end server (4 vCPUs, 4GB RAM, 100GB storage and 50GB traffic).<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost said that this service also carries its well known &lsquo;double your money back&rsquo; guarantee where clients who are not &lsquo;completely happy&rsquo; with the products within 60 days will get a double refund &ndash; no questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>Cloud computing has become a buzzword in the IT market in recent times, and with the numerous new and more affordable virtual hosting solutions in the local market, South African consumers look set to benefit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/308143-More-new-and-cheap-virtual-hosting-services-unveiled\" target=\"_self\" title=\"New and cheaper virtual hosting services\"><strong>New and cheaper virtual hosting services<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost and Gamco unveil new and more affordable \u2018cloud hosting\u2019 services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}