Re: Colo in Africa

[Sina Owolabi <notify.sina () gmail com>]

If Nigeria is a possible location, you have a few, off the top of my
head is any telco's colo (MTN, Airtel, Glo, or 9Mobile), and there's
RackCentre, MainOne and I think IPNX for colo (virtual and bare
metal).

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:48 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour () gmail com> wrote:
> What matters is whether or not we can get a facility in Africa to provide service to our customers from Bare Metal 
> Servers :)
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 16:07, C. A. Fillekes <cfillekes () gmail com> wrote:
> > Are they refreshing data they've already got, though?
> > This is the classic use case for client-side caching.
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:56 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour () gmail com> wrote:
> > > We have a different use case to traditional analytics - We're aimed at consumers and small businesses, so instead 
> > > of a SOC with one big screen refreshing 10000 rows of only alert data every 30 seconds, we have thousands of 
> > > individuals refreshing all of their data every 30 seconds because there are comparatively less alerts for 
> > > individuals than enterprises.
> > >
> > > What you "should" do often doesn't translate to what you "do" do.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 11:23, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:39:59 -0600, Ken Gilmour said:
> > > >
> > > > > These are actual real problems we face. thousands of customers load and
> > > > > reload TBs of data every few seconds on their dashboards.
> > > >
> > > > If they're reloading TBs of data every few seconds, you really should have been
> > > > doing summaries during data ingestion and only reloading the summaries.
> > > > (Overlooking the fact that for dashboards, refreshing every few seconds is
> > > > usually pointless because you end up looking at short-term statistical spikes
> > > > rather than anything that you can react to at human speeds.  If you *care* in
> > > > real time that the number of probes on a port spiked to 457% of average for 2
> > > > seconds you need to be doing automated responses....
> > > >
> > > > Custom queries are more painful - but those don't happen "every few seconds".



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Sina Owolabi

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