[LINK] Bandwidth costs: USD$0.00194 / Meg

[Robin Whittle]

Andrew Francis wrote:

> Keeping in mind that to colocate a machine at an ISP in Australia
> will have you paying at least 14 cents per megabyte, wheras in America
> you'll pay about 5% of that.


The most impressive deal I have seen recently is a rack mounted Raq 3
server (300 MHz AMD CPU, 32 Meg RAM, 8.4G HD, SSL, Apache, Linux etc.) 4
IP addresses, $0 setup USD$99 a month - with 51 Gigabytes of bandwidth.

That is ~AUD$182 a month for 51 gigs, or 0.36 cents a Megabyte.

They have racks of these things, all well connected in a data centre
somewhere near Washing Tundy Sea.  No adult content, but.

  http://www.cobaltrack.com/deds.html

They come already set up to run about 200 web sites, with 5 email
accounts each, Majordomo, Webalizer, web-based admin etc. etc.  All you
have to do is rent one of these things and then sell websites on them -
and you are a hosting company!  


  http://www.cobalt.com/products/raq/details.html

They cost USD$1299 to buy.


    

 - Robin