Still looking forward to the steam server but seriously webafrica, your "new" prices are completely fail. Do you guys not pay attention to what is going on around you? I'll stick with my Afrihost R29\GB thank you very much. They even offer excellent service and performance to boot.
Very dissapointing.
LOL guys, people where so disappointed, it warranted 35 pages in a day!
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Yep, they really f***ed up this one. So many people willing to move to them if they just introduced competitive prices but no, greed wins out.
you do realize that someone has to cover their move and unlike afrihost they actually now have extra costs of tier1, their own network and the rollout costs. let's judge them rather on how well their own network work VS the shitstorm that digichilli and screamer was.Originally Posted by Djinn
i'm really not surprised at their pricing. most people was expecting the second coming, but their pricing was realistically as to what they had to do and have become. i'm quite sure they will drop to the floor with their pricing later on. however you guys are turning into a zomg i want everything free and if it is not so lets go all apeshit about it.
very nice to sit behind your screen and moan when you are not the one running the company. i'll take a good bet that you won't even be able to get your own isp of the ground... pffft how could you ever make it over to tier1. The cheap ones are but leachers onto saix or is for their cheap pricing, where in fact how many of them have actually grown to level or pass their own bandwidth suppliers?
we don't have to look far to see what korny non-innovative product releases are being brought onto us by openweb for example. sure afrihost is very cheap and gconnect is almost touching the R10 mark. however over all i've yet to get to an isp that has no issues and continuous service levels.
i'm definitely not saying that web africa is beyond reproach, but seriously you people need to think realistically too without being 10 year olds with wet nappies just because you want and couldn't have.
Last edited by Necuno; 16-02-2010 at 08:02 AM.
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Necuno all you say is true but it has nothing to do with the end user. Its not our problem that they upgraded their network and now need to recoup that investment. Bottom line for the end user its price that matters. Facts are currently WA is not competitive with the likes of afrihost.
Currently from a consumer's(power user/high end user) perspective all they have going for themselves is the promised steam server and the free zone.
Its true, we where all disappointed, but FFS you got to admit is a good deal with freezone.
EDITED made a mistake, its suppost to be IS
Last edited by tpex; 17-02-2010 at 06:49 AM.
I can't wait for this. I am moving over to WA officially 1st of March. I was lucky enough to be one of the 100 MyBB users to get their special. Steam server here I come! (When WA finally release it)
People all seem to forget that Afrihost is selling below cost and probably can't go on like that forever, I wouldn't be surprised if they raised their pricing sometime. Yes you'll be "locked in" at the R29 per gb, but your topups won't be R29 for ever I don't think.
Looking forward to Steam!
Looking forward to Steam!. that is what the thread is about
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Considering they have been able to offer some topup's at R14.50 I seriously doudt we will see any major increase. Also seeing as we have other isp's like sainet now offering similiar pricing to what afrihost are I really doudt we are going to see any major increase.
Also they budget for selling at lower than cost by taking that money from the advertising budget. That business decision has been an absolute winner which is why this so called special is still running.
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