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On the plus side building something like this establishes a capability and track record, and could be of future benefit for contracts abroad. In a similar sens
by throwawayaway 12y ago
On the plus side building something like this establishes a capability and track record, and could be of future benefit for contracts abroad.
In a similar sense a push to getting more than 20% of your local startups on local hosting - which is already quite a good number - might attract foreign customers.
Long term the economic impact might be worth talking about but in the immediate term I agree that it is just noise.
- malvim 12y agoMain problem with local hosting solutions is pricing, I think. I can get a DO VPS machine with a reasonable performance for US$ 5/mo, while most known Brazilian providers would set me back about US$ 20/mo for a similar machine. If latency is not a big issue for you, it just doesn't make sense to host it here, unfortunately.
- throwawayaway 12y agoWith AWS having brazillian hosting and established firms already there operating at a high price, it does seem like the skillset is in place for someone in brazil to do something entrepreneurial.
- marcosdumay 12y agoWhat exactly do you mean? Are you talking about undercutting Amazon's price? The prices are that hight because of taxes, nobody can undercut them on Brazil.
- throwawayaway 12y agoNo I am talking about undercutting the other local Brazillian businesses.
- kuschku 12y agoAnd DO is still more than 2 times as expensive as OVH is. Which is why I host in the EU, getting more security for less money. TL;DR: OVH provides more “fuck murica”[1] on the euro than DO. — [1]: This is not meant against the people of the US, but its government and secret agencies.