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Very cool! I work with the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika. We host out of the U.S., and they are always complaining of page load time issues.

Do you know of/recommend any local hosts?

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Hi! I've heard good things about Habari Node[1], and Angania[2] is a startup working on Nairobi-based hosting. That said, I and most developers I know in the region host internationally. As others have mentioned latency is usually a bigger problem than bandwidth. Happy to take a look at your site if helpful (just add it to the form).

[1] (http://www.habari.co.tz/) [2] (https://angani.co/)

Depends on where your clients are in Africa -- if in the South then for example http://www.rsaweb.co.za/ could be a good choice. Have had some VMs with them, no issues.

Also Hetzner has servers in South Africa: http://www.hetzner.co.za/webhosting/buyersguide/hosting-loca...

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