Tuesday May 04 2021
Kenya Revenue Authority headquarters at the Times Tower in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG
Bulgarian web-hosting firm, SiteGround, has stopped signing up new clients in Kenya, citing high compliance costs.
The firm blames costly tax-related rules for its exit, shutting the door on start-ups looking to set up online services on a low budget.
“Due to new local regulations (mostly tax-related), we have recently…
Epik, a Washington State-based internet web-hosting safe haven for far-right websites, has given refuge to Parler after it was banned by several major tech companies. Parler also announced that it will sue Amazon, for antitrust violations for scouring the site from the web overnight.
With users as wide-ranging as Texas Senator Ted Cruz and neo-Nazi terror groups, Parler was recently booted from Amazon’s Webhosting service, Google Play, and the Apple Store, after it was accused of hosting content from certain controversial online organizations preceding the violence on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, January 6. Amazon said it axed Parler because it was not confident in its ability to monitor content on its platform promoting or inciting violence.
So, Parler in return is suing…
After seven years in existence, miniNodes, a Phoenix-based provider of bare-metal Raspberry Pi hosting services, has grown out of its first data center — also known as founder David Tischler’s home office.
Tischler says he now has 40 to 50 customers, which he serves from a small rack of Raspberry Pis in his home, networked using Cisco routing, firewall, and switching, with a dedicated internet connection, “so it’s not sharing with my kids streaming YouTube or something.”
“It started here,” Tischler told DCK, “but I now have underway an expansion to a data center with a partner of mine in Texas.”
The new home of miniNodes will be a colocation data center in Austin, where Tischler and his new partner have already installed some…
After seven years in existence, miniNodes, a Phoenix-based provider of bare-metal Raspberry Pi hosting services, has grown out of its first data center — also known as founder David Tischler’s home office.
Tischler says he now has 40 to 50 customers, which he serves from a small rack of Raspberry Pis in his home, networked using Cisco routing, firewall, and switching, with a dedicated internet connection, “so it’s not sharing with my kids streaming YouTube or something.”
“It started here,” Tischler told DCK, “but I now have underway an expansion to a data center with a partner of mine in Texas.”
The new home of miniNodes will be a colocation data center in Austin, where Tischler and his new partner have already installed some…
From the November 2020 Issue.
“If you say it really fast, it sounds easy.” I smile when I think about this phrase because I know where I learned it and why. It pairs up with another favorite saying of mine, “the difference between a professional and an amateur is knowledge of, and practice of, the little things.” Within the past week, I learned a quote that is useful for this column on hosting. “Amateurs practice until they get it right; professionals practice until they can’t get it wrong.” One last phrase that applies, “An amateur can be satisfied with knowing a fact; a professional must know the reason why.”
I have the utmost respect for teams that make data centers and hosting facilities work. The less you know about the mechanics of making a large-scale application or hosting…