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MYOB beefs up hosting operations with SmartyHost buyout E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Thursday, 21 August 2008
But for now, MYOB will be content with getting more of its customers onto the web.

"Our research shows that 59 percent of Australian small businesses don't currently have a website," said Reed. "Through the acquisition of SmartyHost we can now deliver a basic website and domain name package to Australian businesses starting from under $100 per year."

Well, yes - it's hard to see why an ordinary small business would need to spend even $100 a year when a two-year .com.au domain registration needn't cost more than $30, and basic hosting can be had for as little as $60 a year. But companies still paying Melbourne IT $140 for a two-year domain registration probably would consider under $100 as a good deal.

SmartyHost founder Anoosh Manzoori is turning his attention to a new company called Vigabyte, where he will be CEO. The company offers scalable virtual servers to enterprise customers.

Prices start at $A49 per month for 256M of RAM. 40G of storage and 10G of data transfer. Memory and storage can be increased in chunks of 256M and 40G respectively.

Vigabyte uses Sun servers, located at an Optus datacentre in Australia.

But it seems there's more to come from the company: "We are planning the launch of an exciting range of new 'cloud computing' services," said Manzoori.

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