When I first saw NCL Hosting’s end of financial year sale back in June (Australia’s financial year starts from July), I just could not resist it. From their VPS hosting plan page, they are offering 100GB of data transfer for $36.75 (ex GST) per month, and 500GB of data transfer for only $66.75 (ex GST) per month! Bandwidth at this price level might be common place with servers in US, but for NCL Hosting, a Sydney based private company having their servers in Equinix DC (Mascot, Sydney), providing this much Australian bandwidth would be insane!

So basically I asked a few questions in the forums (I am “scotty” on WHT.au) —

• Q: Virtualisation? A: Combination of MSFT and Xen
• Q: Debian or Ubuntu? A: Yes
• Q: Data Centre? A: Sydney (later I found out it’s Equinix)
• Q: You insane? A: (1) Limited offer (2) Bandwidth is subsidised (I guess subsidised == oversold)

Well. It’s only around 40 bucks so a few days later I signed up to give it a test. Almost 2 months later I am now writing this review.