[kictanet] Access Kenya ONLY from Kenya?

Wed Apr 28 23:03:55 EAT 2010

Liko,
I agree with you; MS was not the issue but apparently many service
providers find it a challenge to handle MS solutions.  The Ms. SQL Server
for example is a hard nut for them to crack.

Moving to another ISP? Eventually the client will have to move; the
unfortunate thing is that the client just moved to Access Kenya after
getting frustrated by yet another Kenyan ISP.

Thank you for your two cents.

Muthoni

> Muthoni.
>
> It Cannot be MS ... there are pretty humongous systems that ran on
> their technologies.
>
> Just like the convo we had a few weeks ago with Robert Yawe and
> Orange, I say change the provider... and in this case unless you are
> hosting on a dedicated server with good bandwidth, its hard to make
> the case to host locally {economies of scale}
>
> For most sites/applications I would look into hosting in UK or US
>
> About the IP restriction, I have come accross that with quite a few
> hosts even in US/UK .. especially the high end hosts, but they give a
> web console where you can add an IP temporarily
>
> My two cents
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Wainaina Mungai
> <wainaina at madeinkenya.org> wrote:
>> Hi Muthoni,
>>
>> The ''interruption'' was rather welcome ;-) ...
>>
>> It seems I am not the only one with a support complaint against an ISP.
>>
>> I know once of the ISP staff personally and they admitted the following:
>>
>> 1. The support staff agree on a 'political response' to faults when
>> the ISP cannot admit they have a crisis. This happened recently when
>> the home connections service (via Wimax) was down for several days. I
>> am flattered that I was on a list of people to be told the truth but
>> wonder why so many clients need to be given a flat lie as a deliberate
>> response.
>>
>> 2. Their support staff at (name withheld) keep phones off the hook
>> when they have many complaints.
>>
>> 3. The lady incharge of field support claimed there was a support
>> person on the way to assist me but kept me waiting for hours as
>> ''punishment'' for having called support the previous day yet they
>> came and did not find me. I left after waiting for hours.
>>
>> 4. The field support reports do not reflect the truth about the
>> client's support experience. The time taken to respond etc is always
>> under-reported and the fault details are usually distorted.
>>
>> All the above were verified by a member of staff at that ISP.
>>
>> 5. The second ISP support staff hang-up after they realised the fault
>> on my firewall was caused by one of them. No, i did not shout at
>> anyone. He simply vanished because he had not solution and it was
>> around 5:00pm. I have had to escalate previous cases to their CEO for
>> a response.
>>
>> All said, ISP support (with or without a well-worded SLA) in Kenya is
>> a case study on how not to offer technical support ;-)
>>
>> Does CCK regulate such standards of service? There should be an
>> acceptable minimum that doesn't force me to keep moving from ISP to
>> another.
>>
>> Wainaina
>>
>> On 4/28/10, Ms. Muthoni Masinde <muthoni at uonbi.ac.ke> wrote:
>>> Dear Listers,
>>> Am sorry to interrupt this interesting debate on Sharia law....
>>>
>>> From my experience, there seem to be something fundamentally wrong with
>>> the customer (especially technical) support by Access Kenya. I once
>>> attempted to host a Microsoft-based application (SQL Server, ASP and
>>> IIS)
>>> with them; I received pathetic service.  I did not have a major problem
>>> with this though; may be MS was my undoing.
>>>
>>> However, I have a big problem with Access Kenya’s security restrictions
>>> that forces one to administer his/her website only from a particular IP
>>> address.  If you travel out of the country (or even out of your office
>>> for
>>> that matter) and you need to replace/edit  particular content on your
>>> site; you will be in for big trouble!  You will need to supply Access
>>> Kenya’s technical team with static IP address! I highly appreciate that
>>> this makes my website more secure but in the world where IP addresses
>>> are
>>> dynamic, you can as well forget about updating your website.
>>>
>>> I recently traveled to Cape Town; while there, I urgently needed to
>>> update
>>> a home page of one of the sites I have hosted with Access Kenya.  Your
>>> guess is right; I could not and the client (the owner of the website)
>>> felt
>>> like ‘killing’ me.    Writing emails to the technical team yielded no
>>> response and I had to wait to be back in Kenya to update the site;
>>> hence
>>> my conclusion that the slogan for Access Kenya is ‘Access Kenya ONLY
>>> from
>>> Kenya/office’.
>>>
>>> I apologize to Access Kenya for bringing this up to the ‘public’; I
>>> have
>>> tried to get help from within the organization’s customer care
>>> department
>>> for over a year in vain.  My take is that more frustrated clients (like
>>> me), will opt to host websites out there (in US, UK etc) hence denying
>>> our
>>> ISP business.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Muthoni Masinde,
>>> Lecturer,
>>> School of Computing and Informatics, UoN
>>>
>>>
>>>
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