GUIDES / INFRASTRUCTURE
Choose where your core workload runs. Map where the rest of its data travels.
A Kenyan VPS may suit workloads with particular location, control or performance objectives. The decision still depends on architecture, data flow, backup, support and cost — this guide is the set of questions that make it an evidence-based choice.
Check Your Digital Readiness01 / PRINCIPLES
What a location decision can and cannot do.
- Local workload placement can support specific operational goals
- It does not automatically create compliance
- A local server does not prove every dependency stays local
- Responsibility, access, recovery and total cost matter as much as location
- The recommendation must follow the application and data map — not the other way round
02 / THE QUESTIONS
Answer these before choosing.
- What is the workload and who uses it?
- Which data enters, leaves or is replicated?
- Which CDN, DNS, analytics, email, model, storage and backup services remain external?
- What availability and recovery objectives matter?
- Who patches, monitors, backs up and restores?
- What happens when the operator changes?
03 / THE OUTPUT
A good decision process produces these artefacts.
- A workload and dependency map
- A data-journey diagram
- A responsibility matrix — who patches, monitors, backs up, restores
- Stated performance and recovery objectives
- An operating-cost estimate
- A fit / pilot / alternative conclusion
Product supply, billing and support for VPS infrastructure sit with HOSTAFRICA through its official route — see the infrastructure path for the responsibility split and disclosure.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Start with the problem - not the supplier.
Identify the priorities, understand the responsibility and then continue through the route that fits the work.