Harry, from Cloud Shards, has sent in a ticket to inform us of the launch on their Sydney, Australia location!

These offers are all located in Equinix’s Sydney SY3 data center, one of the best-connected data centers in the region. Host nodes have the latest Intel Xeon E3 CPU, hard drives in RAID10 backed up by an LSI RAID card, and feature and SSD cache for improved speed to those files accessed the most.

Cloud Shards have been around for several years now. During that period they have grown quickly, to which the past acquisitions of FlipHost and Liquid Solutions has contributed. While located in Australia themselves, their focus was initially on the US market where they have quite an operation going on in Dallas. Reviews of Cloud Shards are mostly positive. If you share that experience (or don’t), we’d love to hear from you in the comments!

Cloud Shards accepts payments via PayPal and 2Checkout. They offer a 7 day no questions asked refund policy and provide a 99.9% uptime SLA. 8x IPv6 are provisioned by default and more can be requested via a support ticket. Anything legal in Australia is allowed. Tor Exit, IRC and public VPN/Proxy are not allowed. Be sure to take a look at their Terms of Service before signing up.

Network Information

Equinix Sydney SY3 – Sydney, Australia
Looking glass: http://nsw.lg.cloudshards.net
Carriers: Telstra, Optus, Vocus, NTT, major peers, and more to come

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Maarten Kossen was the administrator of LowEndBox from 2013 to 2015, and brought many ideas and improvements to the website during his leadership. Today he is member of our community and LowEndTalk.

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