Even State House is Hosted in the UK.

No wonder we need to make local hosting a priority on vision 2030:

C:\Users\KALA>tracert www.statehousekenya.go.ke
Tracing route to www.statehousekenya.go.ke [207.228.227.143] over a maximum of 30 hops:

 

  1   633 ms  1094 ms  2837 ms  172.16.5.3

  2  2377 ms  2538 ms     *           172.16.5.1

  3  1009 ms   645 ms   644 ms  172.16.15.4

  4  3231 ms  1717 ms  1101 ms  172.16.12.2

  5     *     1830 ms  2361 ms  41.223.57.225

  6  2571 ms  2657 ms  2039 ms  41.223.59.129

  7     *      813 ms  1172 ms  london.intersatafrica.level3.net [212.113.15.97]

 

  8   955 ms   761 ms  1745 ms  ae-34-52.ebr2.London1.Level3.net [4.69.139.97]

  9  1499 ms  1333 ms  2621 ms  ae-41-41.ebr1.NewYork1.Level3.net [4.69.137.66]

 

 10  1552 ms  1199 ms  1840 ms  ae-3-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.132.93]

 

 11  1113 ms  1114 ms  2699 ms  ae-84-84.csw3.Washington1.Level3.net [4.69.134.1

86]

 12   616 ms   479 ms   644 ms  ae-41-99.car1.Washington1.Level3.net [4.68.17.19

5]

 13   502 ms  1112 ms  1181 ms  ge6-2.core1.dca2.hopone.net [66.36.224.66]

 14   693 ms  2200 ms  1157 ms  vl2.distb4.dca2.hopone.net [66.36.224.231]

 15  1058 ms  1898 ms  2278 ms  clients.superb.net [207.228.227.143]





2009/8/11 Job Njogu <jnjogu@gmail.com>
Companies like safcom and orange have sites hosted locally and they
are very fast and i have neva seen it down especially one the one for
safcom. So there is on excuse for having them in the states.

On 8/11/09, Ochieng Maxwell <maxwell@barua.co.ke> wrote:
> Okechukwu wrote:
>
>> So you want them to host locally and then make noise at them when its
>> down due to power issue - I personally wouldn't want that for any
>> website, leave alone government ones.
>
> Think this is the biggest problem ailing our country we even giving
> excuses for the govt which spends almost a billion on hospitality, the
> govt can host their data centre even in NE run it on windmills or solar.
> power outage is the lamest excuse even for security they can afford the
> best brains in the market..probably poach the guys in the security forum
> and we will move many steps ahead.......
>
> Anyway let them enjoy cheap hosting + 99.999% uptime
>
>> ./Ok3ch
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ochieng Maxwell <maxwell@barua.co.ke
>> <mailto:maxwell@barua.co.ke>> wrote:
>>
>>     Okechukwu wrote:
>>
>>         Having a million dollars in the bank doesn't mean you can
>>         misuse it, you still spend prudently. hosting your website in
>>         the US will save you more money to put to good use elsewhere.
>>         - cost is always an issue especially if the cheaper option
>>         gives you better service and uptime.
>>
>>
>>     CCK is parastatal or is it govt, you will realise the much they
>>     spend on tea alone is something else. CCK site is meant to be
>>     accessed i believe by mostly Kenyan's based in the country which
>>     means if we have unstable infrustructure even if it's up we won't
>>     have power in the country and therefore it will still be down to us.
>>
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