And no, I don't work for Digital Ocean, i just think that the value for money you get from them is way higher than any of the local hosting providers.

But I am sure @Adam and the good folks at angani are close to figuring out a way of getting the cost way way down, so its a matter of time.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Peter Karunyu <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

@Dennis, I thought corporates care about the bottom line?

With a few clever tweaks at all layers of a web application, the latency bit ceases to be a deal breaker. Especially given an SSD HDD. Remember, disk IO is almost always the slowest bit.

Therefore, only one argument stands; paying KES 1224 per month to have my services under Kenya's jurisdiction :-)

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, at least you can call the Kili.io and Angani guys or have physical meetings with them. You also get better latency and have your services under Kenya's jurisdiction, basically, stuff that corporates care about.

On 15 Jul 2014 17:20, "Peter Karunyu" <pkarunyu@gmail.com> wrote:

Assuming USD$ 1 = KES 85

Digital Ocean = USD$ 5 per month (KES 425)

Kili.io = about USD$ 14.4 per month (i.e. assuming a 30 day month, at USD$0.02 per hour, 30*24*0.02) (KES 1224)

https://angani.co/#pricing (KES 1481)

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Joseph M. Owino <jpmuga@tespok.co.ke> wrote:

Hi,

what do you mean ridiculous pricing?? How much do you think cloud vms cost?

regards
Muga

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On Jul 15, 2014 3:00 PM, "James Gutu" < jmgutu@gmail.com > wrote:



Check out https:// angani .co



On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:34 PM, David Njuguna < dnjuguna@gmail.com > wrote:



Which companies are these? Other than Kili.io I am unaware of any other capable of delivering PAAS.


David



On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Joseph M. Owino < jpmuga@tespok.co.ke > wrote:


Hi,

As a kenyan do you think its okay that the Nairobi County Government website is being hosted by Amazon? There are many companies in Kenya who can manage a simple county government website or what is not right about hosting it here?


nairobi.go.ke (IP: 205.251.232.38)


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JP

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