Hosting Provider for Cloud App Help Needed

FatBoySlim

FatBoySlim

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I need some advice on a hosting provider for a locally developed cloud business application. I have foreign clients hence why I have hosted in the US (Godaddy believe it or not - shocking bunch). I need to move out of this environment for obvious reasons, however I am finding local clients are not getting great response times with foreign servers.

Anyone else been down this road and can point me in the right direction?
 
Might be because they not local. Rackhost is here but my trust with them offering that is a bit faded.
Maybe contact webafrica - if they don't offer it now they will in soon.
 
FatBoySlim said:
I need some advice on a hosting provider for a locally developed cloud business application. I have foreign clients hence why I have hosted in the US (Godaddy believe it or not - shocking bunch). I need to move out of this environment for obvious reasons, however I am finding local clients are not getting great response times with foreign servers.

Anyone else been down this road and can point me in the right direction?
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Please elaborate on your requirements, ie .Net SQL etc.

You could use Geo Targeting DNS having your local ZA clients hit local servers and International ones use USA servers based on their IP address location.
 
Excuse my ignorance on a technical level, but essentially I would have the same backed DB?

Telasera said:
Please elaborate on your requirements, ie .Net SQL etc.

You could use Geo Targeting DNS having your local ZA clients hit local servers and International ones use USA servers based on their IP address location.
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Yes you could essentially have a central backend DB site and have multiple frontend app servers located in the same region as your users but this design would depend on the speed of your uplinks between front and back end nodes as database transactions will be delayed if the latency is high.

You could however setup multiple back end DB servers and replicate them so that each site has a local database server to reduce transaction delay.

This depends on your requirements and budget.
 
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