Well known web hosting company Hetzner has surprised its ‘Managed Dedicated and Truserv’ customers by reducing the traffic charges from R0.05 per MB to R0.04 per MB. This 20% price cut comes only two months after Hetzner announced that it has reduced the price of its managed server traffic usage from R0.09 per MB to R0.05 per MB.<\/p>\n
This latest price cut means that the overall price reduction for data usage on Hetzner’s dedicated server platforms over the last three months has been 56%, good news to website owners of high volume websites.<\/p>\n
“Hetzner is committed to reducing costs for our customers, passing on cost-saving benefits wherever possible,” said Athena Turner, Hetzner’s Marketing & Communications Manager. “As of today (1 October 2009), Hetzner has reduced its over-usage traffic charges for its Managed Dedicated and Truserv customers. Where these customers were previously paying R0.05 per MB, they will now be paying R0.04 per MB.”<\/p>\n
Hetzner is however not the only hosting company which recently reduced prices. Afrihost cut the price of its additional traffic usage from R 80 per GB to R 45 per GB. The hosting provider further upped the monthly traffic quota on its hosting packages and removed the set-up fee on its dedicated server offering.<\/p>\n
“We have increased the default monthly traffic quota in our packages even though our monthly costs are unchanged. When it came to our Platinum packages the default threshold has been increased by 1000% from 5 GB to 50 GB,” explains Afrihost CEO Gian Visser.<\/p>\n
Web Africa is also planning significant savings on its hosting products. “There will be real cost savings in excess of 50%+ in many cases,” said Web Africa CEO Matthew Tagg. <\/p>\n
These data usage price reductions bode well for South Africa’s Internet and website environment where many websites aimed at the local market are hosted overseas purely because of high hosting bandwidth costs in the country.<\/p>\n