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Anyone know of good CDNs or at least good dedicated hosts with servers located in the Middle-East and Africa? I need something within KSA, UAE, Jordan, Egypt a
by mahmud 17y ago
Anyone know of good CDNs or at least good dedicated hosts with servers located in the Middle-East and Africa?
I need something within KSA, UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Kenya.
Also, pointers on how to evaluate CDNs and hosts; performance snooping on other people's networks is a blackbox to me, no idea how, other than ping times and traceroute.
- dnsworks 17y agoYou might ask around on webhostingtalk.com, probably the largest single forum for people in the hosting industry. I do know that Africa, India, & the Middle East are still somewhat of a no man's land in terms of hosting & dedicated servers.
- mahmud 17y agoThey are not a no man's land, it's that the ME is a government monopoly. I lost good money setting up a SIP termination/trunking service there, and officials from a certain government told me I was competing with the government telco; it was nice while it lasted, doing corporate VOIP, but people started printing cheap phone cards using my lines and we came to the feds attention in less than 3 months. I still wanna go back there and setup a regional presence, perhaps leasing bandwidth and storage to CDNs.
- dnsworks 17y agoForgive me. They're not a no-man's land, just a no-competition land .. Which is even worse.
- wmf 17y agohttp://www.keynote.com/products/web_performance/index.html http://www.keynote.com/products/web_performance/index.html is the big name in performance evaluation; has anyone tried them? I get the impression it's expensive.
- dnsworks 17y agoGomez might also be interesting to talk to. They have hundreds of browsers with their performance plugin that does remote end-user equivalent testing .. Of course having used Gomez's monitoring services, I'm unimpressed with their understanding of "Software As A Service" and their aggressive sales representatives.