[lugm.org] Announcing a Mauritian tech forum

Tue Dec 17 20:31:04 UTC 2013

I provide very decent colo pricing in MU.

/29 ipv4 /64 ipv6 10Mbit dedicated uplink with pccw & singtel as upstreams.
+ i think 25amps of electricity. what does ipv6 brings, i cannot really
answer on this.. ipv6 is just provided as standard + there is plenty of
them.

Contact me off list for more info & for a visit over the facilities.

K

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Avinash Meetoo <avinash at noulakaz.net>wrote:

> 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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