Many thanks for your informative response. We shall check out the options with the various providers. I have to say that cost was a major reason we hosted outside Uganda (in addition to many great services that Kabissa provides to African NGOs).
One thing that is not quite clear, and kindly indulge my questions. This would mean for example that we could have our main site accessible as-is and then a link to the Uganda site such as http://xx.xx.xx.xx/...... Would there be any advantages to getting a .or.ug domain name?
Regards,
Dorothy
At 08:24 AM 7/29/03 +0300, Mark Tinka wrote:
[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
