Hi All,

For anyone who might be interested in leasing a dedicated server based in Australia, we have the follow available:

Small Dedicated
CPU: AMD Duron 1.3GHz
RAM: 512MB PC-133 SDRAM
Hard Drive(s): 2x 40GB IDE 7200RPM (Software RAID-1)
Connectivity: 100Mbit Network Card

Setup Fee: $550
Monthly Fee: $330

Medium Dedicated
CPU: AMD XP 1900+
RAM: 768MB DDR RAM
Hard Drive(s): 2x 40GB IDE 7200RPM (Hardware RAID-1)
Connectivity: 100Mbit Network Card

Setup Fee: $880
Monthly Fee: $550

Large Dedicated
CPU: AMD XP 2200+
RAM: 1024MB DDR RAM
Hard Drive(s): 2x 36GB SCSI 10000RPM (Hardware RAID-1)
Connectivity: 100Mbit Network Card

Setup Fee: $1100
Monthly Fee: $880

Extra Large Dedicated
CPU: 2x AMD MP 2100+
RAM: 1024MB ECC DDR RAM
Hard Drive(s): 4x 36GB SCSI 10000RPM (Hardware RAID-0+1 or -5)
Connectivity: 100Mbit Network Card

Setup Fee: $1560
Monthly Fee: $1100

Monthly fee includes: 1 dedicated IP address.
500MB of inbound data.
Unmetered outbound data.
Free data within the datacentre.
Backup mail and DNS.
Service and support of system, including the application of software updates, bug fixes and other miscellanous services. The following options are also available with dedicated servers: Additional IPs are available at $6.60 per IP per month. We require justification for extra IP addresses.
Additional inbound data is billed at $0.094 per megabyte.
Firewalling can be implemented on a client by client basis for $55 per month per server, with a $55 setup fee.
SSL Certificates are available from $99 per year.

If you'd like further information, please don't hesitate to email me or PM.

how can u afford this? sounds a little bit suspecious.
i live in australia and ISP Prices for a 45Mbs (DS3) is around $50k/month. (or $3k for 3Mb/s connection),
so how can u offer a 100Mb/s connection?
whats your website?

ryza,

what do you mean how can he afford to do it? It only includes 500mbytes in and additional transfer is 9.5cents thereafter - which is $97 per gig, or $972 per 10 gigabytes - which isn't that great :(

Originally posted by hostcentral

500MB of inbound data.
Unmetered outbound data.

This is the way it goes in Austrlia i'm afraid.

I'm paying 2c per megabyte

Originally posted by ryza
how can u afford this? sounds a little bit suspecious.
i live in australia and ISP Prices for a 45Mbs (DS3) is around $50k/month. (or $3k for 3Mb/s connection),
so how can u offer a 100Mb/s connection?
whats your website?

Hey Ryza,

You're talking about flat-rate bandwidth, even though your figures are pretty off. What I've posted is for usage-based bandwidth, which does not include per megabit pricing for the actual link (if you can drive a bargain), only a tariff for the data flowing across the link.

Our website will be online hopefully within the week at http://www.hostcentral.net.au

Regards,

David Hill

Originally posted by hosticle
ryza,

what do you mean how can he afford to do it? It only includes 500mbytes in and additional transfer is 9.5cents thereafter - which is $97 per gig, or $972 per 10 gigabytes - which isn't that great :(

Hi Hosticle,

Correct. We figured that it would be best off to include a modest amount of inbound traffic in the monthly fee in order to reduce costs for those customers (and yes, we actually have some of these customers) that don't use large amounts of inbound traffic.

Whilst 9.4c/MB is very expensive in comparison to US based hosting operations, we do (and hence you do) only have to pay for inbound traffic. Outbound traffic is free and unmetered.

I think you'll also find that 9.4c/MB with no commitment on data inbound is also quite competitive.

Regards,

David Hill

yeah, i pay 2c for australian bandwidth Dave

In any case, i dont trust alphalink anyway :(

Originally posted by hosticle
yeah, i pay 2c for australian bandwidth Dave
Good for you that you pay 2c/MB for Australian bandwidth. You can get it for even cheaper than that if you're prepared to pay for it. I can get data for $1200/mbit/month, but it's something I'm not interested in at this stage.

My discussions with a range of carriers hasn't yielded something that good, simply due to the fact that I'm not prepared to sell my soul, but then again, perhaps we're talking a totally different QoS.
In any case, i dont trust alphalink anyway :( They've been good for me for the interim period that I've been using them.

I'm switching to over to a feed from Request (they have 355MBit/s worth of connectivity in the building) hopefully by the end of the month.

Just for your information, the figure I've quoted above for excess inbound charges is for no commitment, so, as you can imagine, if you're prepared to commit to certain levels of inbound traffic, deals can be made.

Regards,

David Hill

One of your servers includes 'software-raid', and 'software updates' but you've made no indication of what OS you provide.

Where will the servers be located? (City and datacenter location please)

Who is the bandwidth provided by?

Please provide an estimate of how much inbound traffic would be generated by a normal webserver doing say 100Gb outbound traffic each month.

Hey Wolfy,

I apologise for not making everything 100% clear:

- Operating System is either Red Hat 7.3 or 8.0
- The datacentre is in Melbourne in the ASX at 530 Collins Street.
- The bandwidth is provided by Request.
- An estimate is hard to calculate, so far, our own shared hosting servers are working basically a 1:5 ratio.