5Did the following command on one of my Australian VPS this morning. $ mtr -n –report www.aussiehq.com.au HOST: my-vps-in-bne Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev 1. 202.60.89.xx 0.0% 10 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 2. 118.127.9.xx 0.0% 10 267.6 262.3 256.3 267.6 4.3 3. 202.60.84.78 0.0% 10 270.8 265.5 258.5 275.2 5.4 4. 203.88.112.4 [...]
Australian Bandwidth Cost – Still Too Expensive for Community Sites
Spotted this discussion thread yesterday at OCAU, one of the biggest community forums in Australia. Agg posted about OCAU’s hosting changes: As you may be aware we’ve been very kindly hosted by AusGamers for a few years now. Unfortunately due to changes beyond their control they can no longer host us, so we have to [...]
Crucial Paradigm Sydney Xen VPS Review
(Disclaimer: Aaron W. from Crucial Paradigm emailed me early last week asking for a review on their re-launched Xen VPS plans. So here we go — a review on their Xen VPS after playing with one for a few days.) Crucial Paradigm is a web hosting/web design company in Sydney, Australia that have both Australian [...]
Why Australian Hosting Business Just Got Tougher
Two events this week that just made hosting business in Australia a bit tougher. 1. Weakening US Dollar Australian dollar has just hit 93 cent USD today, and it is still on its way to parity (which I doubt will happen but I can be very wrong). Everything has already been more expensive in Australia [...]
Google, Server Location and Country-Coded Domains
From this Google Webmaster Central blog entry: Does location of server matter? I use a .com domain but my content is for customers in the UK. In our understanding of web content, Google considers both the IP address and the top-level domain (e.g. .com, .co.uk). Because we attempt to serve geographically relevant content, we factor [...]
VPS Hosting in Australia
Alright. I might got my small Xen VPS hosted in Sydney, I am still looking for alternatives every now and then. After all, virtual private/dedicated server hosting in Australia has a very small market, which is both a good thing and a bad thing. It is good, because it does not take long to survey [...]
GPLHost Sydney VPS 3 Weeks Review
This post is a continuation from my previous post, searching for an affordable VPS on the East coast Australia. At the end I was choosing between two offerings — GPLHost‘s Xen package 4 in Sydney, or DarkStarX‘s VDS package in Perth. Although DarkStarX is cheaper, but (1) it’s on OpenVZ with only 128Mb guaranteed (2) [...]
Looking for an Australian VPS Hosting
I have stated previously that I was looking for a virtual private server in Australia. I have 2-3 sites that are targeting the Aussies, and I want low network latency and better search engine optimisation for Google Australia (see why hosting in Australia). However, finding an Australian VPS that is “economical” (read: cheap) has proved [...]
Gain at Your Competitor’s Downfall
According to Adam at Jumba, MD Web Hosting is Australia’s 2nd largest budget hosting company, with SmartyHost the biggest and Jumba trailing behind. However it appears SmartyHost might be a bit nervous with MD Web Hosting. Or may just want to make some quick bucks at someone’s downfall.
Australia or US-based Hosting?
Note: This is a re-post of this same-titled entry on my blog. I wrote this quite a while ago on Whirlpool forum over a debate on Australian verses overseas (usually US-based) web hosting. Thread has since been closed (not my fault :) but I think I will jog down my thoughts here, looking at what [...]