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KDDI Australia VPS (Linux $11.00 and Microsoft 2008/2012 Server $19.25) - Half Price First Year

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KDDI Australia VPS (Linux $11.00 and Microsoft 2008/2012 Server $19.25) - Half Price First Year
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AssociatedLKDDI on 27/08/2013 - 15:03 kddi.com.au (346 clicks)

Our regular prices start as follows:

  • Linux: 1G RAM, 32G Storage, 4CPU, 1 IP address… $22.00 inc GST per month.
  • Windows Server 2008/2012: 2G RAM, 32G Storage, 4CPU, 1 IP address… $38.50 inc GST per month.

For first year, half price to get people in the door (as listed in heading above). Mention OzBargain when you order.

All servers get shared access to a 20M/20M internet connection (hosted in Sydney) and we do not add any volume charges or data quotas. Web-based control tools include traffic rate monitor, reboot button, and revert to original snapshot (reinitialize). We offer some basic support to get you started, but this offer does not include full managed system admin. You must be able to handle most tasks yourself. You must take your own backups.

We are particularly interested in developers, or web designers, or student projects, or startup business.

We are not encouraging people who just want to sit and download, or run a massive file sharing operation, and preferably no TOR exit node if you please.

Payments are in advance, you can cancel in the first two weeks for a full refund.

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  • nothommus on 27/08/2013 - 15:33

    No SLA is a little scary. Good to see some more Australian VPS providers though!

    • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 27/08/2013 - 16:28

      Read the fine print on other vendor's SLA, they are not worth as much as your data is.

      Always take backups.

      • nothommus on 27/08/2013 - 19:13

        I was referring to the bandwidth side. Whats to say you wont suddenly have days outage at a time?

        • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 28/08/2013 - 15:31

          We currently have a direct connection to Optus, it is very stable.

          We are planning an upgrade to also link with TPG, hopefully that will be out of the way before the end of the year.

          All the equipment is air-conditioned, in a datacenter, with UPS, security, etc.

  • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 16:12

    i am looking for a deal that rivals crucial paradigm's $99/yr linux vps.

    pm me if you can do a better deal, i'm looking to move my mail/dns server.

    • leemako on 27/08/2013 - 16:49

      Slowmo, have you a link to that deal? Cant find it. You sure thats per year?

      • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 16:55

        it's an old deal that was advertised here. i am with crucial for a while, am looking to move. (I'm getting $99/mth bill) it was on a linux 256mb ram with 10gb bandwidth and i think 4gb storage.. which is more than sufficient for my current needs. (mail/dns/web)

        for a vps, i probably could get it hosted in US for much cheaper, but hey… i always ask if there is a local provider who can do it before I go overseas.

        currently not too happy with the recent outage on my vps server by crucial when I don't even get an email informing me of the outage(and nothing is written on their support forums or website…)and I had to raise a ticket, just for them to tell me to go to a separate link describing the outage.

        • leemako on 27/08/2013 - 18:31

          Would be very interested to hear who you go with Slowmo if you could post here. I am currently on shared hosting reseller package on uberglobal (previously jumba) and happy enough with service but finding it all a little limiting. Looking to move to VPS.

        • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 20:35

          no probs mate, happy to share. Though I highly suspect that my needs are quite different to yours. :)

        • leemako on 28/08/2013 - 10:04

          From your post above not far off ;) perhaps a little more RAM but the bandwidth and storage is fine for the small mount of sites im currently hosting.

  • Posts on 27/08/2013 - 16:46

    What's the strategy when NBN kicks in and will be up to 5 times faster than this hosting program?

    • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 16:49

      where are you going to host? first thing i would ask, do you have a backup generator for your home web/mail/dns server? ;)

      • Posts on 27/08/2013 - 16:56

        You assume I'm going to be reselling hosting packages. This is not that case.

        Setting up web, mail and dns servers are not that hard.

        • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 16:58

          read my question again. i didn't say anything about difficulty of setting up or reselling. lol.

          seriously, idc what's your skill level about setting it up.

        • Posts on 27/08/2013 - 17:12
          +1

          What kind of a question is "do you have a backup generator"?

          How many personal servers hosted at home need backup generators?

        • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 19:14

          if you want to receive your emails and not wait days of bounce because of a brownout/outage. yes. if you even want to host a mta or domain properly from home.

          seriously, stop trying to argue. if you are happy with your home hobby setup and SLA, go for it.
          this sort of hostings/deals are not meant for you.

        • scotty on 27/08/2013 - 19:53

          I used to run simply websites from home off ADSL (and before that, Telstra Direct dialup lines). However virtual servers these days are so cheap it makes no sense to run your own server at home unless

          • You have special requirement, i.e. CPU or IO intensive program that would be too expensive to host elsewhere (eg Bitcoin mining)
          • You don't mind all the short falls of unreliable single-homed, high contention consumer grade connection, unreliable power, possible fire/thief risks, your house guests or family members poking at your equipment, failing/dead hardware, etc all happening at 3AM in the morning.

          I went through that (getting up in the wee hours crawling behind the desk to check the dead drive). Nah. Don't want any of that anymore.

        • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 20:36

          you are too kind to explain all that scotty. lol.

  • goosmurf on 27/08/2013 - 16:59
    +1

    If anyone has signed up, could they post benchmarks?

    KDDI, can you share details of the physical CPUs?

    The web page says 2.2 Ghz but I've seen many VPS providers say similar things, even though they use much faster CPUs in reality (e.g. 3.4 or 3.6 Ghz).

    Also, are there any prohibited uses?

    I would be interested in running game servers.

  • Musgand on 27/08/2013 - 17:16
    +2

    Can I use this service as a game server?

    • Elijah on 27/08/2013 - 17:50

      Same question…

      • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 20:42

        check this freebie out? http://aws.amazon.com/free/

        might not be suitable.. but it comes to mind when I was looking at this post. somehow.

    • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 29/08/2013 - 13:29

      Yes you can run a game server.

      You will need to handle the setup and admin for yourself, make sure everything is legal (both from a copyright point of view and a content point of view). There's a firewall in place and you can open ports via the WWW interface. If your game has some set of ports not listed I can add those ports to the list.

  • poedgirl on 27/08/2013 - 17:54

    What has me worried is that it's a shared 20mbps connection. How many servers would this be shared by? Will we be guaranteed a certain amount of bandwidth or can one server just hog it all?

    Edit: Also, how do we just contact you to get the reduced amount? I thought I might as well sign up for the 3 months for $33 just to see how the service is, but I'm up to the payment part and it shows $66.

    • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 28/08/2013 - 15:48

      Yes, the prices of bandwidth and electricity in Australia do become the sticking point for budget VPS, I think the bandwidth situation is improving but the electricity situation is getting worse. People who want the very cheapest, with massive Internet links, will go straight to the USA, I can't win against that.

      Hopefully enough people are looking for fast-response interactive servers for games, web-applications, development, that sort of stuff.

      I have some mechanisms in place to make the sharing as fair as possible, users who are regularly light users will be given a little bit higher priority than users who are regularly heavy users to prevent hogging. At this stage it is nowhere close to full yet.

      Of course we can arrange for dedicated bandwidth at a significantly higher price.

  • scotty on 27/08/2013 - 18:07

    Indeed a bit worrying seeing unmetered 20Mbps at this price point. That would be an invitation to some abusers/bandwidth-hoarders though.

    Edit: I'm intending to grab one for some light weight project to test out. Created a quote and emailed them about the offer. Will report back once I manage to get to the root prompt.

    • scotty on 27/08/2013 - 19:45

      Update: Email replied after 50 minutes where they manually adjusted the quote to $11/month. However provisioning "might take up to 2 working days". Far from instant provisioning of "cloud" services that I'm used to.

      • slowmo on 27/08/2013 - 20:43

        hmm.. looks like their backend is still autoMANtic. hah.
        might be wrong, would like to see how it went for you. :)

    • scotty on 27/08/2013 - 21:50

      Update: Got confirmation email half an hour ago, i.e. ~100 minutes to manually activate my service on a Tuesday evening. I went for the cheapest plan so that would be limited to 100 IOPS. Can't be bothered doing any IO test.

      4x Xeon(R) CPU E5-2407 0 @ 2.20GHz

      Here's an output of mtr -r www.ozbargain.com.au

      HOST: vaucluse                    Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1.|-- 203-77-163-1.kddi.net.au   0.0%    10    0.4   0.5   0.4   0.7   0.1
  2.|-- 203-77-161-24.kddi.net.au  0.0%    10    0.6   0.7   0.6   0.9   0.1
  3.|-- 119.225.142.53             0.0%    10    1.5   2.8   1.5   7.5   1.8
  4.|-- ???                       100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  5.|-- 59.154.57.10               0.0%    10    2.1   2.4   1.6   3.6   0.8
  6.|-- 119.225.142.42             0.0%    10    2.3   2.5   1.9   3.7   0.5
  7.|-- ten-0-2-0-3.cor03.syd03.n  0.0%    10    3.3   4.2   2.2  15.0   3.9
  8.|-- ten-1-3-0.cor02.syd03.nsw  0.0%    10   40.0  28.3   2.3 215.3  66.7
  9.|-- ip-202.90.161.119.VOCUS.n  0.0%    10   12.4  18.0   2.7 117.5  35.3
 10.|-- 182.160.158.129.reverse.c  0.0%    10    2.4   6.4   2.4  17.3   5.6

      Looks like it's going through Optus. Won't have much time to play around it tonight, but I'll vote +1 for this deal.

      • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 28/08/2013 - 14:44

        Yes it is going through Optus.

        We will be putting a second connection into TPG at some stage (next few months I think) so it could route either way.

  • lbft on 27/08/2013 - 18:09

    Why does your website list prices exclusive of GST, without specifying that to be the case? I thought that was illegal.

    • ilsan0 on 27/08/2013 - 18:12

      Cause they are Jap company and GST might not be part of their book keeping

      • lbft on 27/08/2013 - 18:22

        They're an Aussie subsidiary of a Japanese company with an office in North Sydney.

        Clearly this isn't on the scale of their parent company, 20mbit shared to who knows how many VPSes?!

        • ilsan0 on 27/08/2013 - 18:30

          My point was around GST and why its not advertised.
          They are owned by Mitsubishi Corporation

        • lbft on 27/08/2013 - 18:47

          And my point was that it's a subsidiary and they still have to play by the rules of the Australian market. McDonald's is American-owned but they still advertise a Big Mac GST-inclusive.

          Either way it's an interesting offer and nice to see some more companies doing cheap VPSes in the Australian market.

    • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 28/08/2013 - 15:10

      Most of our customers internally use exGST, and most of our sales are to business.

      Lots of Australian companies work this way as well, each of the individual items on the quote/invoice is listed as exGST, and then right at the bottom of the bill a lump sum GST is added before the final total. Your electricity bill probably looks this way, maybe also your telephone bill.

      • lbft on 28/08/2013 - 17:11

        NSW Fair Trading's advice to businesses on advertising says:

        The law makes it an offence to state only part of the price without also specifying the total amount to be paid. The full price includes any applicable GST.

        Unless I'm blind and can't see it, your website also makes no mention of the fact that the prices are GST-exclusive until checkout - I would wonder if that could be considered misleading.

        Your electricity bill probably looks this way, maybe also your telephone bill.

        My bills state the total GST-inclusive cost on the same piece of paper, and a bill is different from an advertisement.

        • AssociatedKDDI @ kddi.com.au on 29/08/2013 - 10:19

          Extra note has just been added to the page:

          • All prices shown here are GST exclusive.
        • lbft on 29/08/2013 - 12:11

          Thank you very much :)

  • itprotj on 29/08/2013 - 14:25

    Do you offer Colocation type services? Would be interested if you do..

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