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.
Digital Fitness01 / 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.