[kictanet] Mpesa Migration

[Ahmed Mohamed Maawy]

I think the broader issue here is Safaricom is a Kenyan company - based in
Kenya. And the servers were in the UK. That is what all this is about.

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:28 AM, simiyu mse via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Is this to say the system is not being future proofed with the intent
> to go global, since in this case the physical location of said servers
> should not be an issue.
>
> When it comes to cost, i believe any internet traffic cost savings
> will be translated to the maintainance and running of the local tier 2
> data centers set up for this infrastructure. Am sure they are running
> more than one for this.
>
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> ./ken
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