Adam, Having locally available Openstack is a novel idea, I remember whilst I was working with a local developer and our host was Amazon, the moment the Amazon went down we had a nusty experience, as you can imagine trying to call or send emails for tech support, but if the option of having one locally was available, we could have just camped at their offices the whole day until they rectify the problem. It is a nobel idea and personally I think more developers should host their stuff locally for latency. my 2 cents.. Antony.... On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:06 AM, steven maina <ndungustephenm@gmail.com>wrote:
we deployed the Election Observation Group's CMS on AWS too. it was mainly to preempt DDOS attacks over the election period. im sure we would have opted for a local open stack implementation as the SEACOM outage affected us
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Martin Chiteri <martin.chiteri@gmail.com>wrote:
Hello Adam,
There is a site I developed and deployed on the Amazon EC ^2 cluster some time back nairobi.sciencehackday.com. It is a django app. I was and still is mostly concerned with its administration. You can talk to Morris Mwanga (cc'd) for more information on billing, pricing and other interests.
Martin. On Apr 23, 2013 6:08 PM, "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? 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
_______________________________________________ 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
_______________________________________________ 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
_______________________________________________ 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