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With the exorbitant cost of rackspace/bandwidth in SA one shouldn't consider hosting here if one wants to serve any serious traffic, especially to an internatio
by blackswan 19y ago
With the exorbitant cost of rackspace/bandwidth in SA one shouldn't consider hosting here if one wants to serve any serious traffic, especially to an international audience. Thus Eskom's inability to realise that planning for a 2% p.a. increase in electricity consumption when GDP growth runs at +- 5% is a bad idea shouldn't really be a consideration before getting to work on a startup in SA, although having a laptop with enough battery to get through the load shedding might be a good idea :)
- daveungerer 19y agoAgreed. Hosting a site locally when your target is global would bankrupt you, your grandchildren and everyone your grandchildren will ever meet, so I'm not too stressed about Eskom. And even if you get loadshedded for 4 hours by accident, there's always a mall nearby with power! Currently hosting in the US for the few small projects I'm working on now, pretty fast once you optimise a few things. Good to hear from someone who won't let Eskom get the better of them. Stay in touch.