Comments on: How “sorted” is the SA blogosphere? http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/ Ideas are bulletproof.. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:07:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Global Voices Online » Amatomu: The South African blogosphere, sorted http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Global Voices Online » Amatomu: The South African blogosphere, sorted Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:46:30 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-835 [...] Swimgeek compares watching Top 100 blogs in South Africa to stock trading: I’ve been looking at the Amatomu Top 100 blogs in SA list a few times over the last week. It’s a bit like day-trading.. watching your blog stock move. I’m in the top 40 today. Top 100 blogs in South Africa, really nice to see. [...] [...] Swimgeek compares watching Top 100 blogs in South Africa to stock trading: I’ve been looking at the Amatomu Top 100 blogs in SA list a few times over the last week. It’s a bit like day-trading.. watching your blog stock move. I’m in the top 40 today. Top 100 blogs in South Africa, really nice to see. [...]

]]> By: Jacques Marneweck http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-654 Jacques Marneweck Mon, 02 Apr 2007 17:39:11 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-654 @joe: broke. What I'm hosting by Joyent, would cost and arm and a leg to host locally! @joe: broke. What I’m hosting by Joyent, would cost and arm and a leg to host locally!

]]> By: Neil Blakey-Milner http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-617 Neil Blakey-Milner Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:53:35 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-617 (Actually, come to think of it, Ian can probably tell a lot more about the international hosting/traffic debate at IOL...) (Actually, come to think of it, Ian can probably tell a lot more about the international hosting/traffic debate at IOL…)

]]> By: Ian http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-612 Ian Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:57:32 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-612 <em>wow, do you move that much traffic?</em> Keeping my spam empire running doesn't come light :) Actually, I don't regularly move that much traffic, but all it takes is <a href="http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/20/1337227" rel="nofollow">a bit of slashdotting</a> wow, do you move that much traffic?

Keeping my spam empire running doesn’t come light :)

Actually, I don’t regularly move that much traffic, but all it takes is a bit of slashdotting

]]> By: Neil Blakey-Milner http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-610 Neil Blakey-Milner Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:25:21 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-610 Vincent: When I was at IOL, we had the same thing - it cost insane amounts of money to host locally, and the only reason to stay local was that international access then was so much slower (it's less slow now, but probably still quite noticeable). Just after I left, they finally split international traffic to an international site, which cost a lot less (for beefier hardware too) and saved some money. Neil Vincent:

When I was at IOL, we had the same thing – it cost insane amounts of money to host locally, and the only reason to stay local was that international access then was so much slower (it’s less slow now, but probably still quite noticeable).

Just after I left, they finally split international traffic to an international site, which cost a lot less (for beefier hardware too) and saved some money.

Neil

]]> By: Vincent Maher http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Vincent Maher Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:58:51 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-609 Guys, to put this in perspective, the M&G site serves over 2Tb a month, we host locally and it costs a fortune with no added advantage. Our new server (for things like Amatomu and News in Photos) is at Rackspace in the UK, gives us tons of bandwidth and a great server for R3300 per month (we could get it cheaper but Rackspace give us phenomenal service) Guys, to put this in perspective, the M&G site serves over 2Tb a month, we host locally and it costs a fortune with no added advantage.

Our new server (for things like Amatomu and News in Photos) is at Rackspace in the UK, gives us tons of bandwidth and a great server for R3300 per month (we could get it cheaper but Rackspace give us phenomenal service)

]]> By: joe http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-608 joe Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:50:17 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-608 Ian, wow, do you move that much traffic? Ian,
wow, do you move that much traffic?

]]> By: Ian http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Ian Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:01:30 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-607 1GB is not nearly enough - the scenario assumed 20GB (not unrealistic), which is what blows the local option out of the water. 1GB is not nearly enough – the scenario assumed 20GB (not unrealistic), which is what blows the local option out of the water.

]]> By: joe http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-600 joe Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:16:07 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-600 Ian, hmm.. I'm guessing you picked one of the high-end options. How did you work that out? I would guess the following would work.. Xen128 (with 256MB swap) and 1GB traffic.. R257 (incl VAT) ..this is pretty much exactly what the geekdinner and wapa sites run on. Ian, hmm..

I’m guessing you picked one of the high-end options.
How did you work that out?

I would guess the following would work..
Xen128 (with 256MB swap) and 1GB traffic..
R257 (incl VAT)

..this is pretty much exactly what the geekdinner and wapa sites run on.

]]> By: Neil Blakey-Milner http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-599 Neil Blakey-Milner Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:11:40 +0000 http://www.swimgeek.com/blog/2007/03/26/how-sorted-is-the-sa-blogosphere/#comment-599 I was going to reply here, but it got too long, so I posted a reply here: http://nxsy.org/blog/archives/2007/03/27/joes-true-blogs Basically, "true blogs" is a hard-to-handle concept, and at best we can categorise more. "Local traffic patterns" is less hard-to-handle as a concept, but managing it in a way that adds value might be a challenge. And, finally, "locally-hosted content" is a great cause, but it's not something that should be used to "sort" the South African blogosphere. I was going to reply here, but it got too long, so I posted a reply here: http://nxsy.org/blog/archives/2007/03/27/joes-true-blogs

Basically, “true blogs” is a hard-to-handle concept, and at best we can categorise more. “Local traffic patterns” is less hard-to-handle as a concept, but managing it in a way that adds value might be a challenge. And, finally, “locally-hosted content” is a great cause, but it’s not something that should be used to “sort” the South African blogosphere.

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