If there are stable datacentres with high availability and expedient staff, then I agree. I'm just saying I've yet to experience that. I will not argue against you on that point, because you have more experience on the Ugandan market than I ever will.
However, what you then go on to say doesn't make sense, totally or otherwise. Why does it matter whether the service is local or not? The Internet is fairly location-neutral; there are no long-distance charges to deal with, and no individual or small business in Uganda will have a good enough last-mile connection to have a bottleneck occur anywhere other than in the last mile. I do concede that it is good to support local alternatives, but if you are running a business and not a charity you need to have the quality of service as your first consideration. On 26 Feb 2013 12:18, "Reinier Battenberg" < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > > I work on a local prompt 10% of my day every day, across ISPs, and it > works, once its setup correctly. > > > > I think there is a current wave of more local services going on, which is > great. MTN is offering datacenter services, Datanet launched theirs, > OneSolutions is betting heavily on local VPS services. > > > > And for a lot of online services, especially content heavy ones, that > makes total sense. Why host something like http://www.mafutago.com/ which > has a 100% target audience in Uganda, anywhere else? > > > > Why would Ugandan websites host in the US, while US companies have a cache > inside Uganda for their content? > > > > rgds, > > reinier > > > > > > On Tuesday 26 February 2013 11:44:54 Benjamin Tayehanpour wrote: > > I agree, although using mosh over SSH somewhat mitigates that. > > The problem is that, in my experience with Koen and his hired domestic > VPS, the lag is almost unbearable compared to communicating with a server > abroad. It might just be that that particular company is shite at what they > do, but it seems that with Ugandan VPSes, there are two potential > bottlenecks instead of just one as it should be. > > On 26 Feb 2013 11:26, "Reinier Battenberg" < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > it *is* more comfortably to type on a command prompt with a latency of > less than 20ms, instead of more than 300 though. > > > > > > On Tuesday 26 February 2013 11:21:08 Benjamin Tayehanpour wrote: > > Another option would be to buy computing time abroad, if domesticity isn't > a requirement. > > On 26 Feb 2013 11:16, "Simon Vass" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I would rephrase that but essentially yes. > > > On 26/02/13 13:14, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > > very true, simon. At the moment the Datanet offer for local traffic is not > really > working out. While datanet is peering with the UIXP, no other members at > the > UIXP are peering with datanet. You'll get your keystrokes on MTN going via > london into your VPS. > > Rather take another option, while you can. > > rgds. > reinier > > > On Tuesday 26 February 2013 13:11:53 Simon Vass wrote: > > As do Datanet, but you might have a hard time getting to them over the > IX ;-) > > On 26/02/13 13:07, Reinier Battenberg wrote: > > Hi, > > You can try Roke Telkom, they lease out VPS's. > > You can mail: > James Byaruhanga <[email protected]> > > rgds, > > Reinier > > On Tuesday 26 February 2013 13:05:05 Mike Epps wrote: > > Hello guys, > I was wondering if any one out there knows of any company in Uganda > that deals shell accounts, that is Linux accounts that I can SSH into > and install personal software. > > thanks in advance > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] Mailing list archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). 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