[18:20] <ibeardslee> morning
[20:08] <chilts> morning
[20:09]  * chilts went to CloudCamp on Friday
[20:09] <ibeardslee> good?
[20:09] <chilts> I'm over unconferences - they don't work :)
[20:09] <chilts> it was semi-interesting
[20:09] <ibeardslee> .. I'll take that as a 'no'
[20:09] <chilts> heh
[20:09] <chilts> it's just an excuse for the organisers to not do any work
[20:11] <ibeardslee> did you get anything out of it?
[20:11] <ibeardslee> did you get anything *useful* out of it?
[20:20] <chilts> I found out that there are very few providers of VPS servers within NZ
[20:20] <chilts> I think I know of only a handful and even then it's hard to figure out
[20:20] <chilts> RimuHosting I knew of ages ago, but I find them expensive
[20:21]  * ibeardslee uses them
[20:22]  * ajmitch has considered using them
[20:23] <ajmitch> currently using dedicated servers at webdrive
[20:24] <chilts> WOW, VPS servers at WebDrive start at $299/mth - that's rediculous
[20:24] <chilts> _everything_ in NZ is expensive
[20:24] <mwhudson> !
[20:25] <mwhudson> morning
[20:25]  * chilts clarifies
[20:25] <chilts> all VPS hosting in NZ is expensive
[20:25] <chilts> and 256MB memory VPSs are not under consideration :)
[20:25] <ajmitch> isn't NZ fun?
[20:26] <chilts> yup, I love it here :)
[20:26] <chilts> that's the best thing
[20:26] <ajmitch> I don't know if we'd have the demand here for someone to sell low-cost VPSes
[20:26] <ajmitch> I'm happy with linode for personal use, but we want something in ZN for work
[20:26] <ajmitch> s/ZN/NZ/ :)
[20:47] <hads> chilts: Sitehost
[20:49] <hads> Nice guys, great support, decent pricing (for NZ), unmetered peered traffic
[20:49] <ajmitch> from $30 a month, that's a bit more reasonable
[20:49] <hads> I've had a server there for a couple of years.
[20:50] <hads> I use Linode for personal stuff too. Had a server in AU but canned it as it was old and expensive.
[20:52] <ibeardslee> my rimuhosting vps is $40.37 a month
[20:53] <ibeardslee> they've been fairly onto it with issues
[21:11] <mwhudson> if only you could buy vps hosting on trademe
[21:11]  * mwhudson is having that retail vs trademe price shock again
[21:12] <mwhudson> DSE 3m hdmi cable: $99; trademe: $13 ($18 with postage)
[21:13] <chilts> yeah, Dickies have always screwed you with HDMI cables (as do most retailers)
[21:13] <chilts> not sure why - still relatively new I suppose
[21:13]  * chilts looks at Sitehost
[21:14] <mwhudson> it seems to be the case for any small scale electronics items though really
[21:15] <chilts> at some stage, I'm hoping the company can afford dedicated servers, which will be quite nice (esp. local servers)
[21:15] <chilts> then it'll be SPEEEEEDY!!!
[21:16] <chilts> not that it isn't already
[21:33] <hads> Trademe needs to loose it's market dominance, their fees are extortionate.
[21:44] <ibeardslee> a while back I was reading something somewhere about how e-bay reckon NZ is about the only country where they too much compitition from a local
[23:33] <Atamira> afternoon