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Thread ID: 61622 2005-09-11 07:33:00 New Zealand Webhosting is stupid and way over priced! Bisdale (7228) PC World Chat
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387509 2005-09-11 07:33:00 What happend to New Zealand webhosting?
As far as I can see if a hosting company has .co.nz its going to be way over priced and really poor. How can you call 150MBs of space Premium webhosting where you pay 50$ a month? You can get 150MBs of space free outside of New Zealand and a premium account is more like 10gigs of webspace and 50 gigs bandwith. New Zealand webhosts need to get with the times and start competing with real webhosts.
Bisdale (7228)
387510 2005-09-11 07:47:00 Not all hosts run from New Zealand are over priced. For example TJR Networks (http://www.tjrnetworks.com) has pretty reasonable prices, though their servers are in the US and they do target the international market more than the local market. However, you are right about hosts with servers actually located in New Zealand. I guess some people don't realise how much money they are wasting when they get their ISP etc to host their site. maccrazy (6741)
387511 2005-09-11 09:55:00 It's a smaller market, things are bound to be more expensive.

There's sod all sites that need 10GB of space, so why be excited about it.
ninja (1671)
387512 2005-09-11 10:03:00 What happend to New Zealand webhosting? As far as I can see if a hosting company has .co.nz its going to be way over priced and really poor. Ones top level domain (".nz") has absolutly NOTHING to do with where it is hosted! personthingy (1670)
387513 2005-09-11 10:14:00 It's a smaller market, things are bound to be more expensive.

I would say they should try and be more competitive because there is no reason customers can't buy from a foreign company but as there are so many people in New Zealand who see happy paying $40 a month for 20MB of space I guess there is really no reason for them to drop their prices. :p
maccrazy (6741)
387514 2005-09-11 10:20:00 Sheesh!

I pay $100/year for my 10MB hosted by www.registerdirect.co.nz

servers are in NZ too! :D



Which reminds me www.millerton.co.nz is in desperate need of an update.
personthingy (1670)
387515 2005-09-11 11:01:00 I would say they should try and be more competitive because there is no reason customers can't buy from a foreign company but as there are so many people in New Zealand who see happy paying $40 a month for 20MB of space I guess there is really no reason for them to drop their prices. :pIt doesn't work like that. Greg (193)
387516 2005-09-11 21:54:00 www.hostme.co.nz
www.650.co.nz
Mary (6534)
387517 2005-09-12 11:39:00 It doesn't work like that.

:confused:
maccrazy (6741)
387518 2005-09-12 23:41:00 It doesn't work like that.I disagree. Most people I know buy hosting from overseas companies because, and there are a few expections, you get more for less and it doesn't really make any difference. bob05 (8721)
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