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Definitely great to have this as another local option.

Our preferred onshore hosting provider in recent times has been OrionVM. They are awesome in terms of customer service and raw IO performance, but they don't seem to want to augment their VPS offering with other essential components (eg: backups, DNS, S3-like file storage).

I definitely, for once, don't feel like we're at the end of the earth in terms of "developer love"*

*(I'm looking at you, Stripe).

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It's a good feeling.

There's also Pin - https://pin.net.au/ which offers an alternative to Stripe for us in Aus, unfortunately it's still not live but they are saying 'soon'..

PIN has a really nice API. The minute it goes live we'll be integrating it into everything we do. They are also based in Perth which is awesome :).

Yes, but they've been saying 'soon' for most of this year. I've asked them directly and they have absolutely no idea when they will launch

PIN are in danger of becoming a vapourware joke

With what evidence? From what I've heard PIN seems to be doing very well in private beta.

Yeah I've heard good things too. It has been a long time since Pin was first announced but I'll bet it's no easy task getting all the legal and financial stuff sorted out, as far as I know they're the only company in Australia attempting this kind of disruption.

As a side note, I sent them an email at around 1.00am on monday and got a response within 10 minutes which was a nice surprise.

I'm in their private beta ... there's no actual payment processing ... just the API in a sandbox.

No word on pricing either.

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