[kictanet] Local hosting - reiterated

[robert yawe]

Hi Listers,

Just felt that this is a topic that needs to be kept alive until we get some 
serious resolutions, it is one thing to scream about local content and another 
providing the enabling environment.

We currently have no reliable application hosting and collection service 
providers I had thought that with the bashing by Safaricom of the incumbent ISPs 
they would have gone off to develop other areas, but from what is happening they 
might also be beaten to this by big green.

It is time those claiming to run incubators for developers realise that without 
reliable and cost effective hosting and collocation facilities the tools they 
are providing shall remain theoretical.  To a web developer hosting space is 
more critical than office space as their work place is virtual, so providing 
office space still leaves 60 - 80% of the recurrent project budget going to 
hosting and collocation.

This is one of the times when I think we are justified in calling on  KICT Board 
and the Ministry for Information to help.  Today the average cost of collocation 
for a 2U rack space is US $ 400/- per month and a server costs about US 1,500/- 
which is the bear minimum for a redundant setup you require at least 6 U space, 
2 servers and a firewall/switch.

If there is someone out there who can provide the service for less and is 
connected to KIXP please stand and be counted.

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


Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696



      
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