Website Hosting, Website Design & Search Engine Optimisation News

	reliable & affordable solutions



	Our solutions will not only astound you in their reliability, but their affordability as well. No matter which of our solutions you require, you will see this statement will fit all areas of our expertise. An example of this is our Web Hosting solutions that have a 99.9% uptime guarantee which has never failed.

2010-01-22 Osirion to launch overhauled web siteIt is long overdue but it is finally here (well, soon).

2008-05-10 Internet fraud on the riseDuring 2008, incidents of cybercrime can be expected to climb, as criminals around the world capitalise on the opportunities the Internet provides for them to reap substantial financial rewards with a relatively low risk of getting caught and punished.

2008-03-09

"Thank you man..."

Jacques Gouws

2008-01-14

"New era, yet classic, a fantastic designer with many talents..."

Carina Swart

2008-05-10 Creating an RSS Feed Using PHPCreating a script which outputs an RSS feed is almost easier than going to Google and finding one to integrate into your project. In fact, if the script you're trying to add this ability to doesn't already have RSS feeds, chances are you're best off writing it from scratch anyway, that way the code is targeted directly towards your problem. In this brief web development tutorial, I'll show you a quick and clean way to integrate RSS using PHP.

Article Category: Web Development
Article Subcategory: PHP

2008-04-06 SEO Tips Using PHPThere are a lot of search engine optimisation characteristics to a page, and using these tips combined with the power of PHP will allow you to give your pages so much more SEO and ranking power.

Article Category: Web Development
Article Subcategory: PHP

We Accept:

R 16 per Mbps per month

2008-03-11

A new USD 300 Million, 10 000 km Pacific cable is being built, promising 7 Tbps and bandwidth costs as low as USD 1 Mbps per month.

According to DSL Prime, the popular telecoms newsletter from Dave Burstein, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation, Pacnet and SingTel are building a new cable from Tokyo to Los Angeles.

Burstein points out that while there is no shortage of capacity on the route, the companies decided it would be cheaper to lay their own cable which is expected to be operational within two years.

“If the full 7.68 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth were efficiently used (impractical), that would equal 7 million or so megabit connections. $300M over the standard 20 year lifetime of an IRU is $15M per year, or $2/megabit annual capital cost,” said Burnstein.

“Add operating and repair costs, as well as a factor for interest, and the cost is perhaps $6/year. Only part of the capacity will be used initially, and networks run well under peak capacity most of the time, so I'm setting the minimum per megabit cost at $10/year.”

“A final cost of even $4/megabit per month is less than half the high volume price of purchasing transit, and enables carrying a movie for a price in pennies. 32K or even 128K voice calls are a very small fraction of a penny. Upgrading dark fiber is considerably cheaper, so bandwidth costs should continue coming down.”

The article highlights that ‘Google is making volume deals like this around the world to gain a strategic cost advantage against Microsoft, Yahoo, and even major telcos.’

Two years ago, Google engineers were told to plan video and other high-bandwidth projects “as though the bandwidth was free, because the entire cost could be covered by the requirements for Google Search.”

“While that is probably exaggerated, Google has driven down their bandwidth costs dramatically. That hasn't been enough to dominate the market, however. One of my bigger mistakes was projecting Google Video's low cost basis would quickly bring them to the top. In fact, they never gained traction and finally bought YouTube,” Burnstein concluded.

Source: My Broadband