About

Egress Aware is an independent information site for owners, office managers, finance staff and IT leads of Australian small businesses who are choosing hosting or cloud servers for the first time, or trying to understand and reduce an existing bill. It explains how shared hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, public cloud and managed cloud are priced, what each line on a bill means, and how to estimate and compare costs, with worked examples and calculators.

We cover compute, storage, backups, data transfer, IP addresses, load balancers, support plans and licences; on-demand, reserved, savings-plan and spot pricing; US-dollar billing and exchange-rate buffers; GST; Australian data residency and the Privacy Act; contract terms; and migration and exit costs.

We do not rank, score or review providers, publish testimonials or case studies, or quote provider prices. Prices on this site are illustrative ranges to show the arithmetic, labelled as such. We are not a hosting provider, a law firm or a tax adviser, and nothing here is legal, tax or technical advice. Laws, prices and official guidance change; check the official sources linked in each guide and each provider's own price page, and get professional advice for your own situation.

How this site is made

Egress Aware is an independent information project. Guides are drafted with the help of AI writing tools and checked against official and primary sources before publication; see our Editorial Policy. We are not affiliated with any provider mentioned on the site and do not sell products or services.