[kictanet] Faith in local web hosting

Wed Nov 28 07:41:25 EAT 2007

Hi all,

As is normally said by the lake shore "a fish goes bad from the head down", when the authority responsible for encouraging and developing local capacity blatantly shows a preference for external hosting how do we expect the common "mwanainchi" to have faith in local capacity.

I also had an interesting experience with Telkom when I tried to have them host a .com, they invoiced me Ksh. 22,000/- where as they register and host .ke at 5,000/-.  This was not a new registration, this is a domain that was registered over 5 years ago when Telkom had no idea about domain hosting.  So O wonder why they feel it necessary to punish those who are front runners.

What I am saying is if those we entrust with the responsibility and authority to carry out a task fail all of us suffer and they should have the courage to reform or resign.

Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
KEnya 
Tel: +254722511225

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From: Eric Osiakwan <eric at afrispa.org>
To: robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Sent: Monday, 26 November, 2007 7:48:15 AM
Subject: Re: [kictanet] Faith in local web hosting

Dear Mr. Washington,

You have stated the obvious which is the challenge but let me try to share some light on how to solve the problem.

It is really a chicken an egg situation, the localhosting business would develop based on demand but like you said demand is relative to cost.

However in the interest of developing our countries and continent if we all commit to having country code top level domain (in this case .ke) and host them locally, the demand would trigger supply.

On the other hand if the local entrepreneurs can invest in infrastructure and based on market study provide competitive rates (with the generic TLDs) then again the supply could trigger the demand.

Having said that, i have noticed something under the sun, which is that for some reason African just dont like using what other Africans produce so in some ways the former strategy would work better if we deal with the attitudinal change. 

Eric here

On 26 Nov 2007, at 08:35, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

On Nov 26, 2007 8:03 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Hi all,

I have raised this issue before when I did a search and found out that the
CCK web site was hosted overseas and thus how can we expect them to monitor
the service quality levels of the ISP's.

On Sunday I visited the Kibaki web site, I experienced unstable audio
streaming so I decided to find out where the site was hosted, yes you guest
it overseas.  The other 2 presidential candidates web sites are no better
they are not locally hosted.  Is this a reflection of who the targets of
this web sites are?

The Kibaki site is developed by one 3Mice, if I remember right, which has
some association with newly appointed ICT Board Managing Director Kokubo.

Regards
 Robert Yawe
KAY System Technologies Ltd
Phoenix House, 6th Floor
P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
KEnya

It's not the faith the people have in local hosting, but rather the
cost factor. Last time I looked at this web hosting biz, one company
was charging KES 1,000+VAT per month, which was what was though to be
competitive. Another one entered into the fray with hype about reduced
costing charges, but I am not sure how much business they managed to
pick. All the same, their charges did not compare with what is charged
internationally (I mean in Europe and the US).
Websites is not something that has caught up with many Kenyans,
otherwise the volumes would help sustain such businesses locally.
I believe the lack of volumes is one of the factors that makes
entities like 3Mice to host overseas. Top-notch Kenyan techies have
been hosting their Blog with blogspot (overseas). Bandwidth costs is
another. In Europe and the US, individuals can afford to connect
10MBps in their kitchens while in Kenya, that kind of bandwidth can
only be purchased by ISPs.
One last question though: Do you know any reliable webhosting company
that hosts it's websites locally, and has reliable and efficient
access to those websites? If there is one, they are not marketing
themselves enough.

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Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
Nairobi,KE
+254733744121/+254722743223
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