Six months in, an African startup story

Posted by bw255 on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:06AM
from the medium.com dept.

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Re:Six months in, an African startup story by eps on Saturday July 23, 2016 @02:33AM (#12148607)

Could've been a far more interesting writeup if it was something more than a list of employees, partners and sponsors.

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Re:Six months in, an African startup story by alexdowad on Saturday July 23, 2016 @03:43AM (#12148736)

What do they do? Since Node Africa isn't (yet) a household name, they could have included at least a paragraph explaining their business.

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Re:Six months in, an African startup story by jtchang on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:44PM (#12148111)

I am confused what nodeafrica does. I assume there are specific challenges to hosting in Africa? Why can't you just host in another country?

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Re:Six months in, an African startup story by kaboro on Saturday July 23, 2016 @12:33AM (#12148358)

Local hosting - latency and data residency are the biggest issues. Some apps just need to be in Africa

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Re:Six months in, an African startup story by skc on Saturday July 23, 2016 @03:08AM (#12148671)

I'm curious about data residency in African countries. It's very hard to find any information on what restrictions are there.

I'm from Zambia and we simply can't host locally (cloud services) because it's a) too expensive and b) too unreliable.

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