[kictanet] Local hosting - reiterated

[Dennis Kioko]

Developers and Local Hosting providers have for long been involved in the
"chicken before the egg" situation where hosting firms say that demand has
to increase for prices to come down, they have to justify investment.
Developers meanwhile want prices to come down before they host locally,
with some of them barely having budgets.

At the same time, local hosting firms have to learn to offer world class
cutting edge platforms and interfaces to their users if they are going to
adopt them.

At the same time, it aids when those providing this services go into
technical details, like the type of databases offered, supported scripting
languages rather than just tell us 2 databases, developers need that
information.

Rememeber there is tough competition from the likes of Amazon who have a
robust cloud infrastructure which is free for low usage (
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/)

As a case study, a local developer has done a popular application , AroundMe
(Nokia Ovi store -
http://store.ovi.com/content/103911#/content/103911/reviews) which has been
downloaded more than 10,000 times and with 30,000 searches. The app uses the
Google App Engine (https://appengine.google.com/) cloud platform, also free
to a certain usage . To now the app is still operating on the free limit (
http://aroundmenow.appspot.com/).
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