Website owners

[cave weta]

My own website - www.overthetopadventures.co.nz is built and hosted by this guy here

www.lumina.net.nz

Viv is great and he has no issues with working with people all over the country- he is creative and cheap. I maintain my own content through Silverstripe which is quick and easy -Give him a call -

country town prices - City slick webwork

ha ha , I wrote that- I wonder if he'll give me a job?

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

I use http://www.webacademy.co.nz

[Marmoot]

http://getonline.co.nz/

[Big Dave]

Well my 'good results' comment about Crazy Domains is out the window and smashed into more bits than a rocker's television on the footpath below.

Under no circumstances use Crazy Domains.

[Scuba_Steve]

Well my 'good results' comment about Crazy Domains is out the window and smashed into more bits than a rocker's television on the footpath below.

Under no circumstances use Crazy Domains.

I always had my doubts about them, you just get screwed over???

https://www.hooplahosting.com/

AFAIK run by a kiwi. The servers are in the USA though. This doesn't matter too much as response time is still less than 200ms. KiwiBiker is not hosted in New Zealand either.

I don't think I would ever use a server hosted in New Zealand simply because of the price. More expensive for less storage and monthly bandwidth.

Hoopla are easily the best web hosting company I have used. Their live chat seems to come alive at night so you can talk to someone if you have any questions.

Incase anyone was wondering this ^ was the company I went with, & I'm quite happy with them, I too would recommend a look if anyone comes across this thread while in the market for web hosting

[phill-k]

crazydomains to register name & renewal and openhost in Albany for hosting bloody brilliant they are

[mashman]

crazydomains to register name & renewal and openhost in Albany for hosting bloody brilliant they are

+1 for openhost..

[Big Dave]

you just get screwed over???

Not really screwed. A bit frustrated when I posted. Persistent outages and no response from helpdesk.

(and I liked the analogy - where else am I going to use it!)

[Big Dave]

As a footnote - they offered me a 1 year extension to the hosting package - 200gb storage and no bandwidth limit - as compensation for the persistent outages. BD appeased.

[blairnz]

I'm about to set-up a couple of sites on http://www.openhost.co.nz/ which has everything I need from opensource CMSes and online shop systems to build the websites I need for my clients. They have both Windows and Linux based hosting.

Some of their blurb: OpenHost is 100% New Zealand-owned and operated, based in Albany on Auckland's North Shore. We provide web site hosting to over 15,000 New Zealand web hosting customers and employ more than 20 local staff.

Why choose OpenHost?
When you host your web site with OpenHost we guarantee you will be hosted on servers located in New Zealand, with free 0800 and email support provided by our local helpdesk.
100% New Zealand owned and operated.
DNC accredited, parent company ICANN accredited.
Financially secure, mature company operating since 2005.
Up-to-date and secure hosting platforms.
Millions invested in hardware, systems and people.
OpenHost is the leading low-cost New Zealand web hosting provider. We support every aspect of web hosting ranging from Wordpress and Joomla hosting to Windows hosting with ASP.NET, MSSQL and MVC. We have more servers, staff and experience than any other budget web host in New Zealand.
7-Day Web Hosting Support
When you buy web hosting from us its backed by a 7-days a week New Zealand based helpdesk. Call us anytime for fast answers to your web hosting questions.

[iYRe]

openhost is owned by Web Drive.

Its their "low cost" division effectively.

Web drive are great - I host all my domains with them (I do my own webhosting though).

[p.dath]

I become more and more disallusioned with providers in NZ.

For example, I was recently pricing up virtual servers for a monitoring application.

On Microsoft's Azure platform, it was about USD$35/month (about $NZD36/month). This included backups and geographically redudant storage in case Microsoft had an entire data centre fall over, or the country it was hosted in lost its connectivity, etc. It also included the Microsoft OS licencing, and backups.

On Amazon's platform it was about USD$67/month (about NZD$80/month). The Amazon offering was even better when I tested it out. It also included the Microsoft OS licencing, and backups.

Both the the above providers are *very* serious, offering levels of redudancy that you only get paying top dollar.


I took a look at OpenHost. NZD$129/month. Doesn't say if it includes the Microsoft OS licence or if you have to buy it seperately.

I took a look at Web Drive. NZD$299/month. Doesn't say if it includes the Microsoft OS licence or if you have to buy it seperately.


So basically, if I want to put the service in NZ I have to pay 4 to 8 times the price, and there may be some additional capital costs with buying licences. And I have to ask myself why? Why would I want to pay so much extra to keep it in NZ?

[iYRe]

To save yourself hundred ms or so..

It depends on your customer base, if the users are in NZ mainly that response time can be the difference between happy and complaining because its slow.

There are other options for hosting, like Rimu hosting. Its also cheaper if you dont use windows..

I'm currently paying approx 250 for 2x 2.4 GHz cores, 8GB RAM and 100GB hdd.. which I consider decent price for nz..

[p.dath]

To save yourself hundred ms or so..

It depends on your customer base, if the users are in NZ mainly that response time can be the difference between happy and complaining because its slow.

Not likely. 200ms on a initial web page load using TCP is beyond most human tolerances. For example, do you find Google's site slow? How about Microsoft's? I find them both load snappy to me.

To be honest, probably about 90% of the web sites I use regularly are overseas. So it's just "normal".

There are other options for hosting, like Rimu hosting. Its also cheaper if you dont use windows..

I'm currently paying approx 250 for 2x 2.4 GHz cores, 8GB RAM and 100GB hdd.. which I consider decent price for nz..

I just checked and www.rimuhosting.com and it is located in the US. I just checked the Microsoft Azure pricing schedule. For that amount of memory you can get 4 CPU cores, a 400Mb/s Internet Connection, and it looks like 850GB of storage.

[sugilite:Me]

I'm with greengeeks.com
Cheap and amazingly good product and fast service. Been with them for 3 years now and on the 5 to 8 times (at all hours) I've contacted them through their 24 hr live support, bam I'm talking with someone within 20 seconds. Very professional. I've been running my site for 15 years now with a number of diff ISP's, once upon a time I had my own server tele-housed too. I'd not bother with NZ based ISP's as I just got mucked around with both service and costs.