Cloud hosting with SA presence?

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I'm going to be hosting a web app and want to use a hosting provider with a presence as close to Zambia (where the client sits) as possible. I understand Rackspace now offer Akamai CDN. Would that help for someone accessing from Zambia, or will they still be pulling via UK / US?

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Just get a VPS from Afrihost, they're definitely best and cheapest VPS provider in South Africa.
 
I would go with Rackspace - they have POPs in SA. If you really need to host a VPS in SA I would rather go with RSAWeb (but just remember that their "CDN" is only a glorified Varnish server). Hosting from SA is not a problem - you will not notice an issue with lag. The only thing you might want to look at is if it is relevant that your web-app has a SA-IP range or a Zambian IP-range (perhaps not relevant for you).
 
MagicDude4Eva said:
I would go with Rackspace - they have POPs in SA. If you really need to host a VPS in SA I would rather go with RSAWeb (but just remember that their "CDN" is only a glorified Varnish server). Hosting from SA is not a problem - you will not notice an issue with lag. The only thing you might want to look at is if it is relevant that your web-app has a SA-IP range or a Zambian IP-range (perhaps not relevant for you).
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RSAWeb is RIDICULOUSLY expensive, and you don't get half of what you could get from Afrihost.

Rackspace only has a POP in South Africa for their CDN, but not for their virtual servers. If you get a VPS from Rackspace UK then it will be hosted in the UK with a UK IP address.
 
Hi IPX,
Have you looked at other hosting providers. MTN Business does offer this capability as well as a number of other organisations. What is your thinking to have it close to the client?

Regards

Tim
 
deweyzeph said:
RSAWeb is RIDICULOUSLY expensive, and you don't get half of what you could get from Afrihost.

Rackspace only has a POP in South Africa for their CDN, but not for their virtual servers. If you get a VPS from Rackspace UK then it will be hosted in the UK with a UK IP address.
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Afrihost is with Internet Solutions AFAIK - so support issues will be a problem if it gets caught up between IS and AH. I would never look at advertised or retail pricing. Bandwidth should never be charged at more than R3/GB - so negotiate.
 
Tim the Techxpert said:
Hi IPX,
Have you looked at other hosting providers. MTN Business does offer this capability as well as a number of other organisations. What is your thinking to have it close to the client?

Regards

Tim
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I'm trying to find a solution that's more reliable given connectivity limits in Zambia. Does anyone know if Zambian traffic routes via SA or straight to the East Coast / UK? Which will be easier to access... a server in the UK or SA?
 
IPX-SPX said:
I'm trying to find a solution that's more reliable given connectivity limits in Zambia. Does anyone know if Zambian traffic routes via SA or straight to the East Coast / UK? Which will be easier to access... a server in the UK or SA?
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Depends quite a lot. There are links from ZM to ZA but not all ISPs are connected to them. I would suggest that you check the latency between your chosen cloud provider and the customer's ISP. A latency of 60-70 ms would indicate a direct link.

Have you looked at www.go2cloud.co.za ?
 
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MagicDude4Eva said:
I would go with Rackspace - they have POPs in SA. If you really need to host a VPS in SA I would rather go with RSAWeb (but just remember that their "CDN" is only a glorified Varnish server). Hosting from SA is not a problem - you will not notice an issue with lag. The only thing you might want to look at is if it is relevant that your web-app has a SA-IP range or a Zambian IP-range (perhaps not relevant for you).
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+1 I always recommend Rackspace even though they're not local. IMO the POPs in SA you were referring to might be the Akamai CDN they use which is now on MWEB's network as well as *another network I can't think of right now, might be JINX itself*
 
Sinbad said:
Er, they are? Since when?
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Can't find the article now, but their stuff at IS stays at IS, the new servers goes into MTN's DC's now. Hetzner is also there but AFAIK they're slowing moving out because of the unreliability
 
Afrihost has categorically stated that will continue to use IS for dedicated servers, VPS's and shared hosting. They have no plans to change that.
 
ping 196.12.12.65
PING 196.12.12.65 (196.12.12.65) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 196.12.12.65: icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=58.0 ms
64 bytes from 196.12.12.65: icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=57.6 ms
64 bytes from 196.12.12.65: icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=57.6 ms
64 bytes from 196.12.12.65: icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=57.5 ms
64 bytes from 196.12.12.65: icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=71.4 ms
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Latency to Zambia if you pick the right South African provider :)
 
Check out our Cloud VPS hosting plans. We are located at the Teraco DC which is network carrier agnostic. We have redundant links with 3 network carriers. Our VPS plans are affordable and well specified.

www.webnow.co.za/vps
 
jpd said:
Check out our Cloud VPS hosting plans. We are located at the Teraco DC which is network carrier agnostic. We have redundant links with 3 network carriers. Our VPS plans are affordable and well specified.

www.webnow.co.za/vps
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How did you get to host at Teraco? When i contacted them to host physical servers they said I can't and had to go through an ISP like Web Africa instead
 
AcidRaZor said:
How did you get to host at Teraco? When i contacted them to host physical servers they said I can't and had to go through an ISP like Web Africa instead
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Teraco doesn't sell anything less than a full rack so if you need anything smaller than that you would be referred to one of the companies that sells colocation within Teraco. This would typically be one of the ISPs. You also need to approach an ISP for connectivity as Teraco does not provide any Internet connection with the rack.
 
AcidRaZor said:
How did you get to host at Teraco? When i contacted them to host physical servers they said I can't and had to go through an ISP like Web Africa instead
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We are a web hosting provider much like WA or RSAWeb is - main difference is we focus on providing quality hosting solutions to SME's.
 
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