Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 14:33:00 UTC 2019

Hi Folks,

I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP
in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you
could help guide me in the right direction for research?

The challenges:

   1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as opposed
   to serving smaller numbers of larger files).
   2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full
   capacity of each server, all the time.
   3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa
   4. We can initially only have one POP

This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old
provider", the requirements are very different.

Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers
(something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa
that can serve most of the region?

"Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal
restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the
rest of Africa.

Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like
something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle
East will be deployed after Africa.

I hope this is the right place to ask.

Thanks!

Ken
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