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New Australian Cloud Computing platform gets launched today
- orionvmjoseph 16y agoThanks for the shoutout! You can follow us @orionvm We are online and available to answer questions both here and via twitter.
- jacques_chester 16y agoLike all servers based in Australia, traffic is still ruinously expensive. $1 per gigabyte in and out. This is why I have and will continue to host all my sites in the USA. It annoys me but I'm not made of money and I don't see why I should pay so much of my hard-earned to Optus and Telstra through a third party.
- locusm 16y agoThats a fair point, I used to pay Telstra 19c /Mb when starting an ISP back in the late nineties - it doesnt look like much has changed in that regard where Telstra is concerned. However I see OrionVM as a great option for those clients of mine that flat out refuse to be hosted outside Australia and to my suprise there are more of these than I thought there would be.
- jacques_chester 16y agoIf you can afford the Telstra tax, hosting in Australia is a no-brainer. You can shave hundreds of milliseconds of page loads. But I can't afford it for self-hosted sites doing over a hundred GB of traffic per month -- the standard bandwidth overage charges alone are roughly quintuple the entire monthly cost of a Linode VPS.
- orionvmjoseph 16y agoThis is true, unfortunately the cost of bandwidth in Australia is very high even for service providers such as ourselves. That being said we currently don't have the scale to leverage our data consumption to decrease costs through peering etc. For now $1/Gb places us one of the cheaper providers for bandwith in Australia. We do however see data ingress as a significant hurdle to cloud adoption so we will be foccussing on reducing these costs in the future. :)
- jacques_chester 16y agoI know it's not your fault, but it's one of the reasons that the Australian internet market is so rooted.
- orionvmjoseph 16y agoAye. :( Ahh well, in time things will get better.