The cloud isn't always the right decision for the end customer. In many cases,
it's the worst decision.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
----- Original Message -----
From: "Akshay Kumar via NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org>
To: "Ken Gilmour" <ken.gilm...@gmail.com>
Cc: "North Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 9:55:12 AM
Subject: Re: Colo in Africa
The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a long way
and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances in AWS if
you really need them with 100Gbps.
Just just use the South Africa AWS region.
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ken Gilmour < ken.gilm...@gmail.com > wrote:
Hi Folks,
I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP in
Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you could
help guide me in the right direction for research?
The challenges:
1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as opposed to
serving smaller numbers of larger files).
2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full
capacity of each server, all the time.
3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa
4. We can initially only have one POP
This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old provider",
the requirements are very different.
Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers
(something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa that
can serve most of the region?
"Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal
restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the
rest of Africa.
Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like
something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle East
will be deployed after Africa.
I hope this is the right place to ask.
Thanks!
Ken
