Hetzner decreases traffic costs even further & increases traffic quotas up to 200%
Cape Town, Monday, 1 February 2010 – Hetzner, SA’s largest specialist web hosting company, today announced significant increases to its traffic quotas. The company has also decreased traffic over-usage charges up to 50%.
“Hetzner is one of MTN Business' largest hosting customers, purchasing substantial traffic volumes. This gives us the opportunity to negotiate competitive traffic rates. As we receive these traffic discounts from MTN Business, we pass them directly onto our customers,” comments Deon de Villiers, Hetzner’s Managing Director. “It remains our ongoing commitment to reduce traffic charges for our customers as much as we are able to.”
Hetzner has increased its traffic quotas for all Web Hosting Business packages up to 200%, while at the same time decreasing the traffic over-usage costs for customers that exceed their traffic quota in a given month:
WEB HOSTING BUSINESS PACKAGES
Traffic Quotas
- Basic — 4 GB (was 1.5 GB)
- Standard — 7 GB (was 2.5 GB)
- Advanced — 10 GB (was 3.5 GB)
- Master — 15 GB (was 5 GB)
Traffic Over-usage Charges
- R0.05 per MB (previously R0.08 per MB)
In addition, unlike its local competitors, Hetzner’s Web Hosting packages allow customers to create Multiple Domains – domains that can be hosted on the sub-directory of a Business hosting package. These Multiple Domains share the resources (traffic and disk space quotas) of its parent package. With Hetzner’s increased traffic quotas, customers are now able to host more domains within their hosting business package without incurring an over-usage fee.
Customers that are serious about providing hosting services as part of their own business offering should migrate to Hetzner’s recently launched Volume Plan which was introduced late 2009 to accommodate the Reseller market. With Hetzner’s Volume Plan, Resellers are able to host numerous websites, all within the same plan, for a set monthly fee of R595.
With its latest traffic changes, the Volume Plan now boasts a generous traffic quota of 20 GB. That’s a 100% increase since the Plan was launched last year. Furthermore, the traffic over-usage charge has been decreased by 50%, bringing it to R0.04 per MB
RESELLER OFFERING
Traffic Quotas
- Volume Plan — 20GB (was 10GB)
Traffic Over-usage Charges
- R0.04 per MB (previously R0.08 per MB)
Hetzner has also made significant traffic adjustments to its dedicated server offering, increasing traffic quotas as well as decreasing traffic over-usage costs by over 60%:
DEDICATED SERVERS
Traffic Quotas
- TruServ™ — 7.5 GB (was 5 GB)
- TruServ Plus™ — 15 GB (was 10 GB)
- TruServ Commerce™ — 30 GB (was 20 GB)
- Managed Dedicated Servers — 7.5 GB (was 5 GB)
Traffic Over-usage Charges
- R0.025 per MB (previously R0.04 per MB)
“We recognise that our customers expect good value and reliability from us. It’s our ambition to provide a hosting service that offers even greater levels of infrastructure stability, performance value and good service delivery. We’re certain that with these traffic enhancements, Hetzner is meeting its customers’ needs while providing them with a hosting service they can trust”, concludes de Villiers.
