[afnog] Challenges in the African Continent

[Frank Habicht]

On 03/31/09 12:09, Graham Beneke wrote:
> This in combination with largely inadequate peering infrastructures in
> many parts of Africa make 'local' hosting pretty pointless. With your
> traffic 'local' to your own customers and everyone else has to access it
> over 2 birds making the latency _double_ that of the internationally
> hosted equivalent.
> 

Where do you see the main audience for the school examination results
(published online!) of country A ?

Would you consider hosting them inside country A - which has an IXP?

Unfortunately and because of bad reasons and inaccessible/overpriced
domestic infrastructure, many ISPs till have only VSAT as their only
outside connection (ie not even connection to IXP in another city).

Frank