New, lower pricing for Brightboxes 28 Jan 08

As we approach the end of our first three months since official launch we’ve now got a clearer view of our costs. So we’re pleased to say that from today the following revised pricing will apply to new and existing customers…

• Brightbox 256 (was £45/mo) now £39
• Brightbox 512 (was £75/mo) now £69
• Brightbox 1024 (was £125/mo) now £109
• Brightbox 2048 (was £220/mo) now £199

See the updated pricing matrix for more details. Enjoy.

Special Launch Offer now available! 15 Oct 07

Our special launch offer, “buy 6 months get 6 months FREE”, is now available to purchase. We’re currently only taking payments via Paypal (PayPal account not required) for the launch offer, although we can accept bank payments via CHAPS for those customers who are unable to use PayPal.

The launch offer is limited to 2 special offer boxes per customer and there are only 100 available in total. The offer will close on 29 October (in 2 weeks time).

** UPDATE ** (1 Nov 2007): We’re extending the launch offer for another week as we’re still working on our “proper” payments system. Those customers who have already signed up for the launch offer will get another month free :)

VAT camp 22 Aug 07

This could well be *the* dullest subject to blog about – but since there always seems to be a fair amount of confusion over VAT (Value Added Tax) and to whom it should be charged, especially when selling goods or services internationally, I thought it would be useful to explain how we’ll be implementing VAT into our payments system for Brightbox.

No? well ok, don’t worry. But if you’re interested or have nothing to do, read on…

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Brightbox Pricing 10 Aug 07

Over the last few weeks we’ve been putting more thought to the pricing structure for Brightbox and have settled on the following provisional price matrix, which we think offers great value for what’s included:

Each Brightbox includes

• Customised Ubuntu 6.06 OS preinstalled
• Brightbox Ruby on Rails stack
• Apache 2.2/Mongrel
• Monit for managing Mongrels
• Subversion repository
• Outgoing mail relay
• Guaranteed (yet burstable) CPU resources
• UK IP address
• Root access
• Mirrored MySQL db cluster
• Mirrored RAID disk storage
• Juniper Networks firewalling
• Free Gigabit traffic between additional Brightboxes
• Fully redundant public network
• UPS and Generator power

Optional extras/upgrades

• Additional bandwidth/data = £5 per 5GB/month
• Additional storage = £10 per 5GB/month
• Custom firewall rules = £10 per month
• Extra IP address (e.g for SSL) = £25 setup

EXCITING NEWS!

We’ll be offering 100 special launch accounts which will feature a sweet discount – pay for 6 months and get 6 months free!

These special discounted accounts will only be available for 2 weeks after launch, and will be offered firstly to those who have participated in the beta programme and then those on the announcement email list, before being offered to the rest of the world. So signup to the mailing list here and make sure you get your hands on one of these special Brightbox accounts.

¹ Rather than limit the number of databases you can create, each Brightbox comes with a limited number of concurrent connections to the MySQL database cluster

² Prices quoted are exclusive of VAT where applicable