Local Blogosphere not so local

Its a tough situation, but i also lack faith in the technical abilities of local ISP's to deliver the kind of service i require. I want 'bullet-proof' hosting with excellent support and not one of my local experiences have been good. And this is before one comes to the bandwidth issue.

The blog earns income on an international service and the cost comparisons we worked out for similar services locally would have made the site a serious burden on income. Coupled with the fact that support locally in my experience has been poor, lacks knowledge and costs far to much.

Personally i think it isn't much of an issue - its simple economics and who says one has to host within the borders of a country to make your site local ?
 
The issue for me is "if and when" we get national uncapped bandwidth with ADSL then local content will become relevant. right now it does not matter. When is ICASA going to get there act together? (I know why bother asking)

By the way. "blogs.24.com" is local. one of the few local sites.
 
Telkom’s Steven Hayward recently pointed out that the high price for broadband services in South Africa is closely linked to our geographical location which means we pay more for international bandwidth.
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Then why arent all the other SAT3/SAFE telcos charging what telkom does? :confused: It's the same damn cable. :mad:
 
same cable. but they are not part of the family. the Telkom don decides who pays what.
 
I hope this local only thing goes away quickly.

The power of the internet is that it is a "global" medium. Artifical arguments like the cost of SAT3 international access is prohibitive etc detract from the crux of the problem which is a inefficient, ineffective, and overpriced monopoly i.e Telkom.

No country in the world has this concept of local only caps. Ethopia and Morocco are far more advanced than South Africa in the broadband space despite having a combined GDP who's cumilitive total over 10 years would not equal Gauteng's over the same period.

What we need is a competitor to Telkom and one quickly, which has been mentioned time and time again. Now here is my radical approach - break Telkom into 3 seperate companies and bring in NeoTel. Then break Vodacom and MTN into 6 seperate companies.

Effectively the incumbents would be broken into 9 companies with NeoTel and CellC bringing the total number to 11.

This would force companies to be efficient, effective and competitive. Novel concepts yes, but valuable ones nonetheless.
 
can't blame them for hosting overseas. I run a small site and its WAY cheaper to host overseas than anything local.
 
I wanted to host locally and am still planning on moving local but the price difference is huge, for my tiny site I am going to be paying 4 times the amount it is costing me to host in the states...
 
Hi guys

Don’t get me wrong…I don’t blame the bloggers at all. They basically have little choice. We all know here the problem lies…
 
Local content ridiculous for high traffic websites

I would definitely host my website locally if it cost less. To host my website locally would cost me about R10K/month in hosting fees. I currently pay R1500/month for unlimited bandwidth and a beast of a server. I host with EV1 in the US. Server has never been down and the support is EXCELLENT.

My website does about 60GB of traffic per month and climbing.

Check it out www.bruin-ou.com (it's an online community about Coloured people)...
 
If you look at the deals overseas its not surprising, saw one that was 250GB disk space, 2,5 TERABYTES of monthly traffic, databases etc. for $6.95 a month. There's nothing that comes close to that here.
 
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go and sign up http://dynamo.co.za/ in the meantime. one of the aspects we'll be offering is full blog functionality (although building an entire site is actually what we're all about: the app is aimed at the 'sweet spot' between a blog and a 'proper site'). we're blogging about the build of the app here: http://dynamo.co.za/journal/.

we're 100% local, got a box at hetzner to prove it. ;)
 
hoover99 said:
go and sign up http://dynamo.co.za/ in the meantime. one of the aspects we'll be offering is full blog functionality (although building an entire site is actually what we're all about: the app is aimed at the 'sweet spot' between a blog and a 'proper site'). we're blogging about the build of the app here: http://dynamo.co.za/journal/.

we're 100% local, got a box at hetzner to prove it. ;)
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We just said local is to expensive and now you want us to sign up bcose you are local:confused:

(or were you just spamming?)
 
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