I am interested in getting partners to run some solutions as IAAS and SAAS and being a patriotic Kenyan I first attempted to get quotes for what I wanted. My findings I am sad to say were<div><br></div><div><ol><li>Few providers even understand the concept of SAAS &amp; IAAS. To spare embarrassment to employees who have on their payroll engineers unable to differentiate the cloud from websites, I won&#39;t name names</li>
<li>Those that do have laughable prices. I fiercely love my country and its people but my friends I refuse to pay 10-45 times the prices I am getting at Amazon / Microsoft / Rackspace because the providers are Kenyan. (Yes. That was 45 times)</li>
</ol><div>This is why I am saying i have no problem hosting abroad until local providers get their act together and can have reasonable prices and services.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Remember the Ministry also has a fiscal responsibility to spend our taxes wisely.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If all things are held constant I will pick a local provider any day of the week and twice on sunday but at 45 times the price? And with no redundancy? I am afraid not.</div>