@rsohan, I agree with you, latency cannot be reduced, but, like I said, it can be *masked* so that the end user does not notice it. Remember, the context here is a website. Lets take the case of a website (Site A) hosted at any of the local data centers, and one hosted abroad (Site B). Latency from me to Site A is 50ms, to Site B is 150ms. These will not change regardless what the developer does. But, the developer can load the resources of a webpage in such a way that the end user *feels * as if the page loaded as if it was hosted locally. This is my first point. Below are two screenshots to illustrate this point. Keep an eye on the *onload* time. https://www.dropbox.com/s/xv9er2ds2njj8jm/DigitalOcean%20-%20Firebug.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/gnk2zxw3vkok9og/Safaricom%20-%20Firebug.png My second point, is the disk IO. It is one of the slowest parts of the stack both for the web server and for the database. If you make this fast, you gain more ability to fool the user into not noticing the greater latency. On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 4:39 AM, Timothy Yegon <tyegon@gmail.com> wrote:
Of course it is not ok. Slightly off topic, but then again, why not, when we drive cars built in Japan, on roads built by Chinese, wear clothes made by Chinese, and use toothpicks after lunch from China. We go home and sit on sofas imported from Turkey or China, and watch news/movies on TVs made in Korea, Japan or China. People even wear 2nd hand underwear every day. So in that context, using Amazon hosting is understandable, not ok but understandable.
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:54 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)
regards JP
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