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November 8th, 2007 — Hosting, MobMe
I started thinking about hosting in india when we started the Mobshare project. 99% of the users in mobshare are from India, so performance for Indian users is very much important. If we host in India the latency can be reduced to 50ms from 300ms. Also we need not pay for the international bandwidth.
The first hurdle is Bandwidth itself. Its very costly and its not affordable right now to host the entire systems in India. A 3 Mbps line costs 13 lakhs per year right now.
The next thing is to get all the peering agreements in place. If Nixi becomes successful, we need not worry about that.
If the bandwidth costs comes down Ill definitely host mobshare in India.
The only advantage right now in India is the abundance of engineers here. There are soo many of them available. Mention the technology and you have got 100s of them here. Linux, windows, Cpanel, Plesk… name it and you have it.
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November 6th, 2007 — Hosting
Today I saw an interview with the CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos.
Internet companies have made money quite easily, and they have been spending it quite lavishly also. The business for them is simple compared to traditional business. And thats where Amazon has got an advantage.
Amazon is an online retailer whose business has got online and offline sections. The online part is easy, but the offline part, managing the inventory and the sales and the shipping etc is the hard part. Things become harder when the margins are low in their business.
But the difficult business has helped amazon, it pushed them to be efficient at what they do, and here they are, one amazing company with some amazing set of cheap services.
Their developer services are really cool. We use their S3 storage service for our multimedia blogging and social networking platform Mobshare. They are able to provide all their services so cheap only because of the efficiency they got from their online business.
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