This blog has been a bit quiet for a long time.. so here is something I found on our sales mailing list today which Abz sent to explain our entry level solutions..

We differ from most consumer oriented ISPs in that we specialize in custom specific solutions and the way our products and services are structured.

For instance, if you wanted to host a static website, domain, and 3 email addresses you could probably get a shared hosting package from one of the popular consumer ISPs for R20/m.

We can do all of the above, but we don’t offer shared hosting so we would either give you rack space in our data centre to host your own server(s) or offer you your own dedicated server with Apache, PHP, etc pre-installed, a mail server and domain hosting. Our quotation would look something like:

Xen Virtual Server (128MB Memory, 3GB Disk Space) @ R 250 + R 70/m
Mail Server @ R 600 + R 295/m
Domain Hosting @ R 30 + R 12/m
Internet (1GB, 20c/MB thereafter) @ R 370/m
Labour (1 hour @ R 550/h – Web/FTP setup) @ R 550

Total: R 1430 + R 747/m

As you can see a lot more expensive.

But now let’s say you want a firewall in front of your servers, you have an office which you want to connect to the Internet, some staff members that have ADSL at home, and you want to manage all of your services for you, we could add offer you an ADSL package which is uncapped, bandwidth shared among all your accounts for your staff members, an ADSL VPN / Wireless for your office with static ips, direct connectivity to your hosted services at our data centre, we’ll take over the ADSL lines from Telkom and manage them for you, offer you a managed firewall, etc.

As you can see, you don’t necessarily need to be a big company to deal with us, but it doesn’t really make a lot of business sense to say only host a website and domain with us. If we look at all your connectivity needs it may be a completely different story.