You are privileged! It is a daily part of life in South Africa -- around 200ms to the EU and more for anywhere else. That kind of delay becomes extremely jarring when you are working on a VPS or doing anything, really. Local VPSs are expensive and just not on par with something like DO. I believe there's a great opportunity for opening up a DO-like service in JHB with VPS @ R70/mo.

We also never have enough players for the latest FPS games that require low latency :(