I second you Joseph on the approach. I believe this will go along way in enlightening all the local Techies and would-be Techies (Sorry if I am offending anyone by referring to them as Techies). Believe me or not but many of our own System Admins in these organizations might not be getting the full concept of all this and the implications.
And more importantly the education of the decision-makers (likes of managers, etc.) since they give the Techies the go-ahead by agreeing to sign the cheques for the second hosting fees. Mark you can surely comeup with a good article spelling out the Technical, Social, etc. and obviously the Financial sides to all this. And New Vision seems to have some page dedicated to such articles every so often! Ronald Bogere Mitti -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Mpora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 8:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: lug_: Members/Site Access Hullo All, It's a shame that ISPs didn't jump at the exchange offer! I think another approach would be to educate the public more, put in newspaper articles and promote those that have joined. A list of all ISPs that have joined up and those that haven't might help. I know this is not a very polite approach but the truth is the customers deserve better! Joseph -----Original Message----- From: "Mark Tinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 08:24:16 +0300 Subject: RE: lug_: Members/Site Access > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hullo Mark, > > > > For a long time I have considered the possibility of mirroring the > > WOUGNET site locally and so it is with great interest that I read > > your mail below. How can we go about doing this? Currently, we are > > hosted by Kabissa.org <http://www.kabissa.org>. > > > > Regards, > > > > Dorothy > > Hi Dorothy. > > This is quite simple really. While there have been several methods and > techniques tabled to make mirroring dynamic and scalabale, the only > method > we can go with in the immediate, is to have a main page on your website > that > provides links to either the Ugandan-hosted copy of your site, or the > Kabissa.org one. > > The links are based on IP addresses, and users in Uganda with limited > capacity would experience faster connections to your website, as it > would be > accessible via the exchange. > > In terms of connectivity, all you need to do is host WOUGNET with one > of the > ISPs that are currently connected to the exchange; which are: > > 1. Africa Online > 2. Wilken Afsat > 3. UTL Online > 4. MTN Uganda > > Once you acquire colo space at any of these ISPs, the WOUGNET site will > be > locally accessible. > > Regards, > > Mark Tinka - CCNA > Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda
