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Looks like about a 30% price premium over EC2 instances in North America. 60% for traffic. Which isn't so bad at all compared with other local options. I think
by andrewf 14y ago
Looks like about a 30% price premium over EC2 instances in North America. 60% for traffic. Which isn't so bad at all compared with other local options. I think this will become the default hosting choice for a lot of Aussies.
IMO nobody's comparable to the likes of AWS / Linode / Rackspace Cloud in Australia. There are some bigger players, but if you're not at the "several racks" stage, you're usually dealing with 2-3 man shops, or with a retail DSL provider which has a 2-3 man "business hosting" team off on the side. My friend spun a VM up at Australia's second-largest ISP and the customer service people told him they'd fix it within 14 days after it "ran out of space" (it was a "20 gig disk" VM which he'd barely touched).
Did I mention expensive?
Several people are selling white-label VMWare cloud stuff, so I guess you could get a persistent API before today, but in all other regards someone both as accessible and competent as Amazon is a big win for us down here.
EDIT: 30% premium over Eastern US (Virginia) for the standard instance types. 23% for a reserved instance you'll run for a year. Other instance types range from 12% - 30% over Virginia.
- bwooce 14y agoRackspace has opened in Australia too though right? They launched it a few months ago. It's s necessary thing since you can't store any customer-identifying data offshore without explicit permission (see National Privacy Principles).
- thejosh 14y agoRackspace is currently not in Australia... if it was we would use them in a heartbeat.
- bretpiatt 14y agoWe (I work for Rackspace) announced a DC there recently and private cloud OpenStack solutions: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-comes-to-australiaand-brings-our-openstack-solution-too/ http://www.rackspace.com/blog/rackspace-comes-to-australiaan... Should we consider public cloud?
- te_chris 14y agoYes Yes Yes!! I live in NZ and hosting options here are even more expensive. Something close, properly provisioned and at low latency would be fantastic.
- thejosh 14y agoWe use Rackspace Sites for our most of our clients who don't need servers, HOWEVER... I would love to see Public Cloud Servers for Rackspace as we love the US Based Rackspace servers (but you would make our year if you had rackspace servers in Australia).
- andrewf 14y agoEDIT: Awww.. Rackspace's support chat person tells me they don't do cloud hosting in Australia. The cloud links on rackspace.com.au subtly point to the US site and US pricing. And the only way to get their non-cloud pricing for AU is for a sales rep from the AU office to call me back.
- asher_ 14y agoThey are opening their DC in Sydney in Q1 next year. Cloud servers wont be there at launch but will come "in the months to follow". I'm looking forward to that too.
- okrasz 14y agoWhile maybe more expensive then US locations, it is still very competitive compared to other (few) Australian options - http://www.cloudorado.com/#;(r:(r:5)) http://www.cloudorado.com/#;(r:(r:5)))