[lugm.org] Upcoming meetup

[Nishal Goburdhan]

On 29 May 2014, at 11:58 AM, Ish Sookun <ish at hacklog.in> wrote:

> - Are there any web hosting companies in Mauritius?
> 
> 1. Bhumishq
> The last quote (August 2013) I got from them was Rs 16,800 / month for
> a VPS with 2 vCPU, 4Gb RAM, Windows Server 2008 Standard and a Premium
> Internet Bandwidth of 128Kbps.
> 
> 2. Emtel
> Never contacted them for local servers.
> 
> 3. Orange
> They seem to have re-worked their pricing for the "startups" at Ebene
> Accelerator. They're offering so-called cloud servers for something
> like Rs 1000 / month, for 20Gb disk space, 1 vCPU, 1Gb RAM. Aww!
> Although it's a cloud service you do not have much flexibility to
> increase or decrease resources as per your needs and you have to sign
> a minimum contract of 1 year.

that doesn't seem too unreasonable.  sure, it's more expensive than something in a cloud elsewhere, but not by too much.
if you keep thinking it's cheaper to get a $7 VM in $northern_hemisphere country, then there will never be an incentive, and/or business case for these guys to improve.
and there will never be a case for local content.  or local peering.  and in 18years from now, you'll still be paying too much for bandwidth.

i pay about Rs500/month for a small VPS in ZA.  i could get it cheaper in DE/US/UK.  but then the local supplier would never see the benefit of improving his services here.  and, it's through my incessant whining at them for things that they do not necessarily do properly (or, perhaps, to my satisfaction -- and that, to their credit they do spend time  fixing!) that i believe that they - and the market here - is slowly improving... a few years ago, this was more than twice this price


--n.