If I may be so bold I will use your post as a blatant plug for our services as I have not done a "plug ourselves" post for quite some time and at the same time hopefully give you an idea of what is available in Australia at a professional level and not exorbitant cost for the services given.
Note that emphasis, we have two Data Centres, one local one in Sydney's Inner West and one in Global Switch catering from the middle -level hosting need through to the corporate/enterprise "must be there" level of service. We do not have a couple of dedicated servers in a facility in deepest USA or similar offering super-cheap rates and having to move every so often as the real hosting provider goes broke as their rates aren't commercially viable, we have been around since 1997 in the same premises and are going no-where, which in this context is a good thing :-) Hosting is very much "you get what you pay for"......
Hold On..........
What Taco does is ok for him, I will eventually run my own serves here in
AU, Until then I want to co-host, My experience of Web Central at $800 a
year is NOT good. I've often had issues with expensive ISP's when the
little guy does better.
We are small and we care. The person that answers the phone knows CF and Hosting and..... Not wishing to denigrate any of the "big boys" but we get clients coming from them to us because they want a real person on the phone and service calls that get responded to almost straight away, not log-a-call-for-someone-to-call-back-in-24-hours style service.
For thoughts that are interested:-
I will eventually host 2 servers.
My desired install in Linux / Apache / CFMX / MySQL.
Ill make exact copies of the install to both and set up all my sites on both.
Then each month I swap the servers over swapping the IP address from one to
the other making the primary machine the secondary and so on. If I get an
issue i.e. hardware with the primary I just swap the IP over and reboot we
are back in business.
Home-made clustering :-) Works well if you can keep everything synchronized, databases and code, etc., and don't mind the down-time as they will fall over at 3 in the morning for sure :-)
The ISP I will co-locate with will be expected to have multiple bandwidth
connections and my two servers will be on different ones.
Yes and No on that one. At Global Switch we have multiple carriers twice over into two routers, then combining both via switches to one LAN feeding the servers. Complete redundancy..... At Hurlstone Park it is multiple carriers into one router, less reliable but still as good as the others do.
The will also be expected to have power backups. (although my experience
says that this is only ok if the whole datacenter is covered under the
power back up).
Of course. And throw in redundant air-conditioning, etc......
This is the set up I had in the UK and it worked well for me. It seems that
its going to be pricey to do this here though so for the moment I want to
buy some space.
So guys where should I spend my cash?
With us of course :-) Seriously though we are in the hosting business because we want to be there, it is our main line of income, we are not developers that host on the side although we did get to where we are via that path but the hosting was always taken seriously, we have expertise in all areas of hosting, do it well and have the clients to show for it.
Can I suggest our co-lo offerings? http://www.mbcomms.net.au/WebHosting/Co-Lo/Co-Lo.cfm
Yours,
Kym ---
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