September 7, 2009 @ 2:39 am 
Just came across another low end VPS in Australia from this offer at WHT.au. Crucial Paradigm is a Sydney based hosting company with many years of establishment, and they are offering some cheap Xen-based VPS where you need to prepay 12 months. For AUD$49/year (USD$41.80/year, or $3.48/month). You get:
- 128MB memory
- 10GB storage
- 10GB/month data transfer
- 1 IP address
You need to use the special order link on the WHT.au’s page. Server is in Sydney, Australia. I know the monthly data included is probably not enough to host your next video sharing start up but it’s something you need to live with when you are hosted on a big island in the middle of nowhere surrounded by oceans.
I subscribed. Latency from North America is not great but the performance is quite satisfactory.
The Debian install has some glitches. It wants to install kernel updates, and of course under Xen it’s not responsible for its own kernel. aptitude/apt-get installations break on the kernel updates, of course. Tech support is working on this but since it doesn’t cause any deleterious effects I’m not too concerned yet.