Ask HN: South African Internet Is Disrupted. Please Assist

Hi HN,

The WACS undersea cable is reporting a fault (https://www.businessinsider.co.za/wacs-undersea-internet-cable-is-broken-again-2020-3). My immediate network relies on international bandwidth to participate in meetings and work sessions.

One approach I considered to overcome these limitations was to provision a VPS on a local host through analysis of peering agreements and how they mapped to physical undersea cables --> ZA. Algo server would then get us a route out that has better performance.

Does this sound reasonable? Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks, - nsomaru