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If you target mobile and your app/site can work on slow connections then the market is huge. For example South Africa has about 20 million users(out of 50 milli
by gerdusvz 10y ago
If you target mobile and your app/site can work on slow connections then the market is huge.
For example South Africa has about 20 million users(out of 50 million) with some internet access but only about 5-10 million has broadband.
South Africa and Kenya has good and fast internet in the cities and large towns.
Don't expect to use AWS or Azure because none of the mayor cloud providers has a DC in Africa. So hosting local is advisable otherwise you incur latency of at best 180ms.
- seany 10y agoEven if they did, depending on what countries you were aiming for your network route might take you to Europe first :-p
- ajpgrealish 10y agoWhat hosting services would you recommend when targeting users in East Africa? Currently I use AWS's European regions but the latency to these is high.
- nroets 10y agoThe audience is used to longer load times. www.facebook.com does not have a server in Africa (I live in South Africa and my ping time to FB is 200 ms more than my ping time to Google.)
- okal 10y agoPretty sure Akamai has a presence in Kenya that FB uses.