[lugm.org] Announcing a Mauritian tech forum

Tue Dec 17 20:01:59 UTC 2013

I'm curious.

What local hosting provider has decent prices AND IPv6?

Another question : given that most Mauritians access the Internet using an
IPv4 address assigned by their ISP, what does IPv6 bring for them?

Thanks,
Avinash
On Dec 17, 2013 10:28 PM, "Keshwarsingh Nadan" <
keshwarsingh.nadan at servihoo.net> wrote:

> fck you are damn right. +101 _)))
>
> K
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>> On 17 Dec 2013, at 5:05 PM, Vy-Shane Sin Fat <shane at node.mu> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Nishal Goburdhan <ndg at ieee.org>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > The site is hosted on Amazon's EC2. I picked EC2 simply because...
>>
>> full disclosure:  i'm neither mauritian, nor based in MU anymore.  i
>> monitor this list out of curiosity mostly.  which also means i have zero
>> commercial interest in this.
>>
>> from my days in MU, there seems to be a large culture of "not caring
>> where we host".
>> (actually, it was worse that that;  it was also a "not caring how we're
>> addressed";  i have strong issues with companies that have mail addresses
>> ending in @gmail.com / intnet.mu because, it tells me that they lack
>> their own online business identity, which i think is important.)
>>
>> i've always believed that the goal to success is to lead by example;  the
>> organisation that i did have ties to while i was in MU, made a point of
>> keeping, and hosting, the mauritian facing part of their infrastructure in
>> MU, even though it was more expensive.  i know that some people on this
>> list share that mentality.  i think that's an important part of growing the
>> local market.
>>
>> my point about "not hosting in MU" was really, to kickstart some local
>> organisation into seeing that this is actually something useful, and
>> perhaps gearing them to work with you, and vice-versa.  after all, if you
>> don't start investing in your own local environment, don't expect others
>> to... !
>>
>>
>> >> ** makes access to this slower for MU users, which in turn would make
>> them less likely to want to contribute
>> >
>> > The box is hosted in Singapore, which among EC2's regions, is I think
>> > the best the region for Mauritian users. I've kept graphics to a
>> > minimum on the site. Hopefully load times shouldn't be too much of a
>> > problem.
>>
>> from what i remember of the way that MT and Emtel do their routing,
>> that's probably not going to be the case.
>> they both breakout for IP transit in europe primarily, although MT does
>> have a branch to malaysia telecom.
>> that used to be used for backup mostly, but that might have changed;  i
>> see a traceroute from MU does indeed go MY->SG, so that's good for now!
>>
>> anyway..that's not necessarily relevant :-)
>>
>>
>> >> * as a sometimes techie, i'd say:   "what, no IPv6?"     ;-)
>> >
>> > IPv6 isn't a priority at the moment.
>>
>> nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.....don't say it like that  :-(
>>
>>
>> > I won't rule it out, but I think
>> > that the biggest challenge for the site is not technical at all. The
>> > question is: does Mauritius even need a tech forum? Will people be
>> > interested enough to join and use it? If no one uses the site, it'll
>> > just quietly fade away.
>>
>> in south africa, there's a local end-user/tech forum called mybroadband(.
>> co.za).
>> i forget the history (it's been a while) but it started as just a way for
>> people to write about/discuss their online experiences.  at the time, this
>> was limited to just the DSL offering from the incumbent, but over time,
>> this has grown, and become the de-facto go-to site for most home networking
>> / general simple tech issues.  analogous to the whirlpool forums that you'd
>> find in australia.
>> one thing that spawned from these forums, was some sort of tech
>> journalism - see http://mybroadband.co.za/news/
>> they've gown - so much so, that they now have an annual large meeting
>> that attracts *lots* of folks.
>> that's *one* possible growth path for you...iirc, there's just the orange
>> tech fair that happens once a year in MU as a generic "tech" show, and
>> that's just around stuff that they sell.
>>
>> let me be clear;  i support the idea of a tech-forum.  but, as you
>> rightfully said, it should be something that the locals want, and that they
>> support.  props to you for setting this up - and double props for using a
>> .mu domain as i know it's hideously expensive.   a good thing to use this
>> forum for, is to show best practices - two of which i outlined earlier -
>> local hosting (the need for it), and IPv6 - and that's why i mentioned them
>> ;-)
>>
>> i'm guessing you have a strategy to market this inside MU, or is that
>> what this post is - to ask for marketing strategies - and bring awareness -
>> to/from the list inhabitants?
>>
>>
>> >> as a more networking related geek, i'd bemoan that there isn't a
>> "networking" section, but i guess that this is aimed at home users, so the
>> routing protocol market is small here ;-)
>> >>
>> >> --n.
>> >
>> > I've renamed the forum "The Server Room" to "Servers and Networking" :-)
>>
>>
>> heh.  thanks  ;-)
>>
>> --n.
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