[175719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Seeking VPS providers for low volume network probe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Thu Oct 30 01:35:55 2014
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From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 07:35:40 +0200
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On Thursday, October 30, 2014 12:41:55 AM Jim Popovitch=20
wrote:
> As for Africa... I use the RamNode Netherlands to provide
> coverage to Africa. I spent the past year and half
> trolling the African VPS marketplace, and while there
> are excellent providers, the peering SUCKS. I'm not
> going to get into why the peering sucks... let's just
> say that one or two strategic providers seem to like for
> everything to route through London. Anyhoo... In South
> Africa you can get solid VPS'es from domains.co.za, and
> vps.co.za. Their network peerings will also allow you
> to adequately cover 75% of Nambia, Botswana, Zambia,
> Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, and Mozambique. On the
> Eastern side of the continent there is kilihost.com
> (formerly aptus.co.tz), however they are still working
> with TIX and KIXP (and have been for years) to establish
> better regional peering (the whole of East Africa seems
> to route 95% of traffic through London... someone on
> this list provides that transit.... hopefully at
> cost....).
=46or eastern and southern Africa, there are reasonable=20
peering locations that could help fix these problems.
But the issue is not that a handful of providers prefer to=20
route everything through London, but that the majority of=20
service providers and mobile networks in Africa prefer to=20
buy capacity into Europe, than from local service providers=20
selling IP in Africa.
The reasons for this are legacy. While those reasons are=20
falling away and we are seeing more and more uptake for=20
service in-continent, it's not coming fast enough.
Mark.
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