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Re:Reality of budget VPS services by inopinatus on Sunday October 23, 2011 @08:29PM (#3147776)
Since you seem concerned (as I am) about AUS/NZ performance, it's worth repeating the unconfirmed gossip that Amazon have a closed tender out for a pair of Sydney data centers.

Ninefold are also in Sydney and doing a good marketing job, and I know several first-class engineers that have been involved in their setup and have made only positive remarks on their potential (with the usual caveats around Australian market scale being an issue).

Re:Reality of budget VPS services by bigiain on Sunday October 23, 2011 @10:02PM (#3147980)
I'm cautiously hopeful about Ninefold, but keep in mind they had some serious (multiple day) downtime a month or so back. I'm sure they'll get on top of their operations soon enough, hopefully before Amazon becomes the local gorilla-in-the-corner in the local market...
Re:Reality of budget VPS services by organico on Sunday October 23, 2011 @10:47PM (#3148083)
There are others outside of Sydney too - OrionVM, Dynomesh / Serversaurus off the top of my head.