Hi All,

I just though i would let you know that UltraServe is now offering Cobalts on Rental terms

What you get:

* Cobalt RaQ4 with 64Mb RAM, 10.2 GB HD, 450MHz
* Co-Location in Premier Sydney
* UNLIMITED OUTGOING
* 100MB/s Connection to Switch
* 2 IP Addresses
* Free 1GB of ingoing traffic

Additional Data charged at a mere $0.14/mb ingoing

Setup: $250
Monthly: $395


( All Prices are EX-GST)

Instant Activations
As soon as payment is confirmed, you will have accesss to your server

If you are interested please get in touch with me

Cheers,

Samuel Yeats
Ultra Serve Internet Solutions
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Email: samuel@ultraserve.com.au
http://www.ultraserve.com.au
Ph: (02) 4384 1569
Fax: (02) 8704 8232
Mob: 0403 535 865

Best of luck with the service! Australia has always been in serious need of realistic pricing for hosting for years now. Being In Sydney can only help as well with the pipe out being right there too

Greg Moore

Thankyou Greg,

That is exactly right, most hosting providers here in OZ host up in Queensland which means that their data has to travel all the way down to Sydney to take advantage of all the major international links which can only mean one thing more hops, bigger ping responses etc. Thats the primary reason we choose Sydney as our premium point of presence.

I have pasted our peering details below

Cheers,

Samuel Yeats



Peering:
Australia:
RBU: Cable & Wireless Optus

Domestic network: Multiple 155Mb/s fully meshed ATM backbone built on
10Gb/s in
-ground Optus-owned fibre


Domestic peering/connections:
· Telstra (100Mb/s in Sydney, 100Mb/s in Melbourne)
· Connect.com.au (100Mb/s)
· Ozemail/UUNet (100Mb/s)
· AT&T Easylink (4Mb/s)
· Global One (8Mb/s)
· Zircon (14Mb/s)
· Pacific Internet (10Mb/s)
· Magna Data (4Mb/s)
· Omni Connect (4Mb/s)
· EISA (over 40Mb/s)
· GTE (4Mb/s)
· And over 20 others (mostly 2Mb/s or less)

International network: Mix of DS3 undersea C&W fibre (3 cable routes) and
satellite
connections

International peering:
· 2Mb/s to Taiwan (ITDC)
· 2Mb/s to Korea (Komet)
· 2Mb/s to Hong Kong (CWHKT)
· 2Mb/s to Japan (KDD)
· 2Mb/s to Japan (C&W)
· 2Mb/s to Singapore (STIX)
· 2Mb/s to China (China Telecom)
· 2Mb/s to UK (C&W)
· 390Mb/s to US (LA and San Francisco, peer with UUNet, C&W, AT&T)

Hong Kong:
RBU: Cable & Wireless HKT

Domestic network: 2Gb/s, 622Mb/s and 155Mb/s ATM over 10Gb/s in-ground
HKT-owned fibre

Domestic peering:
· HKIX (155Mb/s ATM, DS3) ˆ 58 peers
· Provide connectivity to 50 other ISPs in HK and region, including AT&T,
Asia Online, KDD HK, Pacific Supernet, etc.)

International network: Undersea C&W fibre (multiple paths)

International peering:
· 8Mb/s to Australia (C&W, Telstra)
· 320Kb/s to Bangladesh (AGNI Systems, BDCOM Online, SPECTRA Solutions,
WESTEC)
· 2Mb/s to Beijing, China (ChinaNet)
· 2Mb/s to Shanghai (ChinaNet)
· 2Mb/s to Shenzhen (Jitong)
· 65Mb/s to Guangzhou (ChinaNet)
· 13Mb/s to Japan (KDD, Abone, C&W) (expanding to 45Mb/s in April)
· 8Mb/s to Korea (Dacom, Korea Telecom)
· 10Mb/s to Macau (CTM)
· 128Kb/s to the Maldives (Maldives Telecom) (expanding to 512Kb/s in April)
· 2Mb/s to the Philippines (ETPI)
· 256Kb/s to Russia (Sakhalin Telecom)
· 6Mb/s to Singapore (Singapore Telecom/SingNet) (expanding to 45Mb/s in
April)
· 10Mb/s to Taiwan (Hinet, Seednet, Netplus Taiwan) (Expanding to 25Mb/s in
April)
· 2Mb/s to UK (C&W)
· 2Mb/s to Vietnam (Vietnam Data Transmission)
· 2Mb/s to Malaysia (Malaysia Telecom) (Expanding to 47Mb/s in April)
· 8Mb/s to Indonesia (in place by April)
· 1Mb/s to Fiji (in place by April)
· 15Mb/s to UAE (in place by April)
· 2Mb/s to Middle East (Batel) (In place by April)
· 427Mb/s to US (PAIX, peer with UUNet, Sprint, CAIS, DIGEX, Abovenet,
Concentric Network, C&W)

Japan:
RBU: Cable & Wireless IDC

Domestic network: Multiple 155Mb/s ATM over 10Gb/s in-ground C&W owned
fibre

Domestic peering:
· JPIX (100Mb/s)
· NSPIXP2 (100Mb/s)
· NSPIXP3 (100Mb/s)
· Total of over 40 peers

International network: Undersea C&W and GC fibre, multiple paths

International peering:
· 1Mb/s to Malaysia (Telekom Malaysia)
· 4Mb/s to Singapore (SingNet)
· 14Mb/s to Korea (Korea Telecom, DACOM)
· 4Mb/s to Taiwan (CHT-D, CHT-I)
· 2Mb/s to Hong Kong (C&W)
· 128Kb/s to Indonesia (Indosat)
· 128Kb/s to Thailand (CAT)
· 930Mb/s to USA (peer at PAIX, PacBell NAP, MAE-West, Palo Alto
(Concentric, Abovenet, Exodus) and Seattle (UUNet and Sprint), and also with
C&W)

just saw the last figure sweet. I take it that's the new pipe they laid a while back?

How do you find the bandwidth pricing from providers? I can't imagine it's much of an issue with the sheer amount of providers you have, but I know a lot of hosting companies based here get shafted through it.

I'll be seriously thinking about basing a RAQ with you in the near future if we get some local market interest up. Until lately it's just been too expensive to bother. Would be nice to have when Pao Alto goes pear-shaped as it does every week or so.

Greg Moore

We dont have to deal with the providers, lucky me :-D ....
We take advantage of the head C&W Optus data centre in Sydney, we have full access to it as if it was our place.

Ohhh and yeah, man thats a nice connection
We have customers in QLD who can ping us at 0.14ms, they can also ping the biggest host in AU Webcentral at 160ms and they live around the corner from them...

Samuel Yeats

yes I've heard about webcentral's quirks. I remember someone doing a trace from Melbourne and bouncing off Los Angeles before getting to them Still, what's 8000 miles between friends *lol*

Greg Moore