Got your own server, but want to make use of our Internet link and expertise? Have your server(s) hosted in our server room...

The largest Internet Exchange in Europe is to be found in Amsterdam. PLANT has secured its network inside the Amsterdam Science Park, which is directly linked to the European Internet backbone. An Internet exchange is a connectivity point where various networks and service providers come together and interconnect with each other (peer). At the moment Paris and Frankfurt both have similar upcoming Internet exchanges with the London and Amsterdam Internet exchanges leading the way in Europe.

Our offices and server room is situated mere meters from the AMS-IX peering point. Our location has tremendous advantages : greatly reduced costs, network speed, reliability and quality of our redundant fiber Internet link. Also, due to our favourable location we have a large quantity of bandwidth available.

In South-Africa we run our dedicated pipe directly into the South African Internet Exchange. PLANT SA is, therefore independent of any third party. We host our own servers on the end of a direct link into SAIX instead of utilizing server rooms off premises belonging to other upstream providers.

As SAIX supplies raw bandwidth to service providers in South Africa, we have effectively gone directly to the source and cut out any middle men. We're not carrying any unnecessary costs through to our clients, and no third party failures can interfere with our service provision. We're, therefore, constantly in control and informed.

Our server rooms are access controlled, secured, air conditioned and also has anti-static flooring.  Clients making use of this facility must take note that all client servers must comply with the 19" specifications

Bandwidth

PLANT determines the bandwidth billing as follows: every 5 minutes the actual usage is recorded. The highest 5 peaks are removed from the recorded usages, and the highest peak of the remaining 95% of recorded usage is used in the calculation for bandwidth charges.

Pricing

For pricing, please contact our office at +27 21 526 3260, or email us your requirement at sales@plant.co.za