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I find it sad that a company based in Rwanda, primarily targeting East Africa, decided to use infrastructure owned by an American company and operating in the U
by mwcampbell 13y ago
I find it sad that a company based in Rwanda, primarily targeting East Africa, decided to use infrastructure owned by an American company and operating in the US. Did you look for an infrastructure provider that's more local? Maybe one of the European hosting providers, if there isn't a good one in Africa?
(Note: I happen to be American. But that doesn't mean I automatically think that the whole world should use our products and services.)
- nicpottier 13y agoI'm ex-Amazon and believe they provide an awesome service, so no, I don't see any problem or sadness in that in the least. The last thing the world needs is propping up inferior systems for the sake of Nationalism, much less in the software sector. Amazon provides a great product and has never let us down, if an East African competitor pops up and does the same, I'll move in a heartbeat.
- mwcampbell 13y agoFor me it's not about nationalism as much as avoiding excessive centralization. I find it appalling that so many services are concentrated in a few buildings in northern Virginia. (Or is it one building?) Did you at least use a region other than us-east-1? I can't tell from reverse DNS lookups or traceroute.
- nicpottier 13y agoI'm ok with centralization. Again if a better provider pops up, I'll move there, but until then I'm fine with commodities going to the best providers.
- redmattred 13y agoWhy is that sad exactly? They want working, reliable software for their users and Amazon can help them provide that. Some decisions are practical not political.
- sorich87 13y agoWhat's the difference between an american provider and an european one from an african perspective? Neither is local. You seems to be putting all non-american countries in the same basket.