We just experienced a 2 day slowdown of the interwebs, because of breakages in
Kenya.
Local traffic was very comfortably fast during those days.
And if the internet is local, why does Akamai exist? Why is 80% of my facebook
page coming from fbcdn.akamai.com? Maybe because Akamai does exactly what you
deny: bring content closer to the end users.
And if we would depend on everything being run abroad, how will we every
learn? There are some pretty decent & dedicated sysops in Uganda. (I always
run into them in the middle of the night when visiting Roke for example).
Yeah, if you want to be pragmatic, maybe we can outsource the country to
Germany. Or we can stand up and fix stuff ourselves.
rgds,
reinier
On Tuesday 26 February 2013 12:31:44 Benjamin Tayehanpour wrote:
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
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