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Cairo: http://www.citynethost.com/
Budget?
All of this locations run you EASILY 200$+ for a single server colo with a few Mbit BW.
Forget Algeria, the state telco does not offer services outside of banking, Morocco is not that hard but expensive, Tunisia is hard (but cheap BW) - Egypt is easy, for example http://www.eccsolutions.net/
Morocco
Algeria
Tunisia
Egypt
for Libya i used to work in http://www.bsisp.ly/ you can also check http://libyanspider.com/
do expect downtimes since electricity is not stable
Thanks for the awesome info!!
There is no set budget for this but ideally we'd like to keep the cost under $200/mo.
@William do you have experience with eccsolutions? Their contact us form gives me this:
Looks Bandwagonhost wanna to offer North Africa VPS :P
Clarification: $200/mo budget is for 1 dedicated server, not for colo
For how much BW? Outside Egypt 200$ get you like 3Mbit in MA or 10Mbit in TN with an old single CPU Xeon and 2 HDDs.
1TB+ ideally, 500GB might work too.
Then I guess we'd have to stick with Egypt for now.
hetzner.co.za ?
Since when is South Africa in Northern Africa?
Sorry my bad?
Next carefully read before posting your BS.
We actually spoke with Hetzner.co.za a few days ago as their BW deal looked unbelievable. Turned out they do not provide remote hands when you colo with them - they said we must arrange third-party RH services, they will not even rack the equipment, not sure why.
How reliable is city networks?
Not Good
Not to be recommended.
Also if you are offering commercial services in Egypt, you need a license.
Libya
(the only ISP in Libya, also it's 100% government-owned)
http://www.ltt.ly/en/
Not anymore - Multiple small players already popped up in Tripoli and Benghazi, though mainly feed by LTT fiber/transit (but the gov in Benghazi controls the fiber to Italy, which could be leveraged in the future against LTT/gov in Tripoli)
I am honestly surprised by the variety of hosts in northern africa especially the pricing since I would have thought it would have been alot more.
There's a lot more than that, there is also a pile of Wimax backhaul into Egypt via Marsa Matrough. There is also a Qatari based group in Tripoli building infrastructure, I don't remember their name.
Are you doing any hosting in Africa?
as a Libyan living in Libya, I only trust LTT.
the small players can flee out anytime if things got worse, and the LTT datacenter is in Tripoli btw.
also Tripoli controls Italy-Libya submarine cable, the other one is Greece-Libya which is in Darnah (ISIS headquarter in Libya).
things aren't so bright in here, stick with LTT.