[AusNOG] Server BW limits

[Simon Lyall]

So since the latest wisdom seems to be that we should give up hosting 
servers in NZ and instead put machines in Syd/Mel I thought I'd look at 
the Australian dedicated/virtual hosting costs.

What I've been buying in Europe/US is dedicated servers from 2nd tier 
vendors with 4G of RAM and minimal other specs. The big thing I'm after is 
bandwidth and I find I can get $100/month for 5TB on 100Mb/s or $200/month 
for 10TB on 1Gb/s . Those are good deals, the mid-market is $50-$100/month 
higher.

Looking around about a dozen Australian providers nobody seems to be 
offering over 1TB/month until I get over $500/month.

Note: My traffic would 99% to Aus and NZ.

So my big question is:

Are Australian bandwidth costs still so high that I'm not going to get 
anything remotely like EU/US pricing any time soon?

Note to sales guys: I'm not going to be buying in the next month or two so 
please don't mail me the hard sell, if you have good prices online that 
I've missed then tell me. For this sort of purchase I work on the principle 
of going with vendors who list their prices online and do things 
automatically to keep costs low rather than building in salesman's margins.


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