Six months in, an African startup story

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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