Neotel has recently launched their first hosting offering called NeoHost. NeoHost offers enterprise clients a colocation hosting service with bandwidth scalability to cope with traffic peaks. <\/p>\n
“Customers can choose between 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 5Mbps or 10Mbps of 'burstable' bandwidth, allowing them to cater for unplanned demand and to benefit from a scalable tariff plan,” the company said.<\/p>\n
Neotel's new datacentre is located in New Doornfontein in Johannesburg and is connected to Neotel’s International Tier 1 IP backbone with access to SAT3\/SAFE capacity.<\/p>\n
Neotel further points out that all their hosting customers have access to the network via 10\/100 network interfaces.<\/p>\n
Neotel feels that it brings of strong value proposition to the table: “A facility which is highly secure, completely redundant and connected to Tier 1 International PoP, thus offering true Tier 1 International bandwidth to customers with robust safe physical infrastructure.”<\/p>\n
The company further says that they have round-the-clock power availability and managed services, which allows customer to reduce their total cost of ownership for the services and better service all the time.<\/p>\n
Pricing<\/strong><\/p>\n Neotel said that it is very difficult to give any “commoditised” pricing – such as the cost per Megabyte – often associated with hosting packages, as its NeoHost enterprise service is priced on a solution rather than a single component. <\/p>\n The company indicated that it is even possible that some clients will be offered unlimited bandwidth which makes this kind of pricing irrelevant.<\/p>\n Neotel did however promise “competitive colocation pricing with applicable usage based bandwidth models”.<\/p>\n The company is further planning hosting offerings aimed at the consumer and SMME market, and here users can expect some commoditised pricing models associated with more traditional hosting packages.<\/p>\n