On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 11:52 +0800, Grace Naces wrote:

> Unsa pinakapaspas na ISP sa Pilipinas? Pangcommercial unta.

depends on what you want to pay.  and interconnection sucks,
so if your target market is in the philippines you'd probably
want to be hosted at every major ISP (PLDT, Globe, Eastern
Telecom, Digitel, not sure of the others) so that at least
speed to their subscribers (and downstreams) would be fast.
you might be slow with some smaller players though (those
telcos that have their own links to the U.S. and don't
interconnect with the big 4).

I would say that the thing to do, if you can afford it, is
to multi-home.  Maybe multi-home according to ISP size/coverage
(e.g., biggest bandwidth with PLDT, smaller/reasonable bandwidth
with the others).  and then have interesting routing rules
so that requests from PLDT have replies going out through the
PLDT link, etc.

but i'm making all of that up grace.  I have only looked at
the situation, not actually tried to get something like
that working.  where i used to work I think they had three
bandwidth providers, or maybe three while i was there but
they switched one for the other.  anyway, for reliability
(not just speed) multi-hosting is a good thing.

jijo sevilla likes the hosting at tri-isys.  i'm not quite
clear why.  the discussion is in the plug archives.  i think
tri-isys has good peering with all the major ISPs.

btw, what would the bandwidth be used for nga?  the only 
reason to host *in*the*philippines* is because you're serving
the local market (maybe even some extreme things, e.g., 
streaming video).  and even then, e.g., inq7.net does not 
host locally, they host in the U.S.

you might want to specify your requirements and then shop
around for an ISP that will give you the service level 
agreement that you require.  or give the requirement to
all the ISPs and then choose the one with the lowest price
(or maybe the second lowest price, i never trust lowest
bidder :-).

tiger

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