Hosting in Australia Doesn’t Necessarily Give You Low Latency

Tag: — October 26, 2009 @ 10:50 am Comments 5

Did 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 [...]

Australian Bandwidth Cost – Still Too Expensive for Community Sites

Tag: , — May 29, 2009 @ 2:38 am

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

Tag: , , , — June 1, 2008 @ 1:48 pm Comments 2

(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

Tag: , , — November 1, 2007 @ 7:53 am Comments 4

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 than in [...]

Google, Server Location and Country-Coded Domains

Tag: , — August 8, 2007 @ 8:37 am Comments 6

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 domains [...]

VPS Hosting in Australia

Tag: , , — May 24, 2007 @ 4:35 am Comments 17

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

Tag: , , , — December 7, 2006 @ 1:50 pm Comments 20

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 [...]

Looking for an Australian VPS Hosting

Tag: , — November 11, 2006 @ 4:38 am Comments 9

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

Tag: , — November 4, 2006 @ 11:26 am

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?

Tag: , — May 5, 2006 @ 3:58 am Comments 3

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 is [...]