<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Yeah you're right, KDN's virtual server costs are close to overseas costs.<br><br>(Open question)<br>In Kenya, what would be the monthly price range for the following <span style="font-weight: bold;">dedicated </span>(<span style="font-weight: bold;">not virtual/shared</span>) server (no setup costs, no service charge, no bandwidth, no taxes, etc) If the price is at least 3 times compared to what I listed below, what factors lead to the price (high energy costs, ...)?:<br><br style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;">8 Core Processor, 6GB RAM, 500GB disk space.</span><br><br>Crucual Paradigm: About $470 including 3000GB bandwidth<br>Alentus: About $450 including 1000GB monthly bandwidth<br>Lunar Pages Dedicated; Rough estimate of $350<br>Mocha Host: Rough estimate of $300 including 'Unlimited'
bandwidth.<br><br>o_O?<br><br><br><div> </div><br><br>--- On <b>Sat, 2/6/10, Kai Wulff <i><kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Kai Wulff <kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke><br>Subject: AW: [kictanet] Local Content: Cost of Local Hosting<br>To: "'wesley kirinya'" <kiriinya2000@yahoo.com><br>Date: Saturday, February 6, 2010, 6:21 AM<br><br><div id="yiv777834291">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">I guess you have never asked us …</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: blue;">Kai</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" lang="DE">Von:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Tahoma","sans-serif";" lang="DE">
kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke
[mailto:kictanet-bounces+kai.wulff=kdn.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke] <b>Im
Auftrag von </b>wesley kirinya<br>
<b>Gesendet:</b> Friday, February 05, 2010 23:31<br>
<b>An:</b> kai.wulff@kdn.co.ke<br>
<b>Cc:</b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<br>
<b>Betreff:</b> [kictanet] Local Content: Cost of Local Hosting</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">Bandwidth costs seem to be
coming down and that's welcome news. However an important area seems to be
largely ignored and that's the cost of hosting locally.<br>
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A <b>Dedicated </b>server in the U.S/Europe (8 Core Processor, 6GB RAM,
3,000GB Bandwidth, 500GB disk space, ...) costs about $500/month. I believe
in Kenya that would cost about 8-10 times more and that's without the 3,000GB
bandwidth. With bandwidth becoming cheaper and better quality, it's far cheaper
to host the local content internationally, and end-users might not feel a big
difference in speed and quality.<br>
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Factors leading to high hosting cost might be cost of physical space and
electricity (highly priced and unstable). If these are the major reasons why
hosting costs are high, then we cannot expect the cost to come down any
sooner no matter how many fibres are coming to Kenya. <br>
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Local companies (e.g. BPOs dealing with large volumes of data) and local
branches of international companies looking for secure off-site back up might
also do it from internationally located servers, where the companies running
those servers not only offer lower cost but also more experience which leads
to better service. As one of such companies puts it ,"98% of replies within
30 mintues, 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee, ...".<br>
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Therefore we are looking at a situation where local content might be hosted
internationally.<br>
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