On 23 April 2013 17:59, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
Hello,
Some of you may know that I'm contemplating the deployment of a cloud services product physically located in Nairobi but using OpenStack so that devops people can use standard APIs. Physically locating the machines in Kenya should improve latency and perceived uptime (due to cable cuts not affecting connectivity) and make life easier for developers, administrators and users ... but I wanted to validate that with people on this list.
Is anybody already using Amazon Web Services or an OpenStack implementation? Is anybody using a VPS or similar solution and paying more than $40USD/month?
Our project does all its hosting on a vps cloud, and we spend more than the amount stated. Yeah having local hosting at a competitive price to Amazon, RackSpace etc. would be great in my opinion. Currently local hosting is not only unreliable (in terms of weak SLAs, unclear redundancy structures in data centers ... ) but also expensive. The other problem with Amazon (which favors local hosting in Kenya) is the license agreement (this is also the case with Google ... ) which gives the US government significant power to restrict (or stop ) services running on their hosting (based on the foreign assets control sanction list ) -- European providers dont have such restrictions. This is particularly important given the political situation ...and also the political situation of neighbouring countries - for instance if you want to host services accessed from Sudan or Somalia (Sudan falls under the sanction list ... ) ... Ashok
Would anybody be interested in a product like this with similar pricing to Amazon's (http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/)? If there were free trials, would people spend the time to learn more about how to leverage OpenStack APIs?
Cheers, Adam