hi, There are certain things we need to understand. The title was County websites being hosted abroad . Firstly, I am of the opinion that for a country to succeed it must invest in itself. We cant have a county government quote hundreds of thousands as budget for a website when its some simple wordpress page hosted by Amazon. We all know that all county governments can pay 7k a month to angani or kilio or safaricom but instead its amazon a company worth 354 Billion USD (NSE Total market cap it 25 Billion USD). Secondly, if this was about latency of course it will not make sense because end users hardly notice anything different. Thirdly, what happens if e.g. international fiber cuts happen? Will we lose access to online services offered by the Nairobi county government? Do we get delays? Fourthly, I think its irresponsible for any government website to be hosted abroad its just wrong. (My 2 cents) regards JP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Wangila" <brian@bwangila.com> To: "Skunkworks Mailing List" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 9:27:23 AM Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Nairobi County Website @Dennis For the normal user to notice the difference in latency, you will require a web application that needs to perform lots of near real time queries and load a large number of assets. If it's the usual website, blog, e-commerce, email, CMSs, then almost no one will notice the latency difference. I'm willing to bet that if we loaded one site on both servers, all factors constant, and told people in this thread to pick the "faster one", ie the locally hosted one, most of us wouldn't tell the difference. __ Kind regards, Brian Wangila Web developer | UI Designer Lead Developer - Skyline Design Ltd From: Dennis Kioko Sent: 7/16/2014 9:17 AM To: Skunkworks Mailing List Subject: Re: [Skunkworks] Nairobi County Website We are assuming that these are simple websites, while over time we are looking at email systems, payment systems for some counties and more. It stops being just an email system. _______________________________________________ skunkworks mailing list skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke ------------ List info, subscribe/unsubscribe http://lists.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/skunkworks ------------ Skunkworks Rules http://my.co.ke/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=94 ------------ Other services @ http://my.co.ke