Irish Politics and Hosting

That's a good find, but i will bet you they haven't got a clue about where abouts their website is hosted.

ya I posted on this a while back. pretty poor.
http://www.irishelection.com/05/sinn-fein-not-supporting-irish-indigenous-enterprise/

McSandwich wrote:

I think that the important issue isn't where the site is hosted, but who developed the site and where they are based. If I contracted an Irish web design company, I might assume that it would be hosted in Ireland. As we know, this isn't always the case.

On a purely technical basis, it's usually better to have the server close to your primary audience. Why do you think companies like Google and Microsoft have clusters all over the world and not just in the US?

On todays internet it isn't as big an issue as people can easily get sub 200ms pings to the most of the world. However if the site is hosted on an Irish Host that's peered with INEX, they are that much closer to their primary audience.

damien.m wrote:

If they can find a better or equally priced Irish webhost who can also provide the same level of support then they should but I don't see a reason why they should pay out more for something that's the same or inferior to what they are getting. It is why I buy stuff online from non-EU countries. I'd expect a party I vote for to run their party efficiently.

Em - shouldn't they be running the country efficiently ? If prices and costs are so high in Ireland, isn't it at least partially their fault for having business, transport, etc costs so high and for not promoting competition and for not giving us a decent, competitive economy ?

Some factors (e.g. greed) might be beyond the Government's control, but the transport infrastructure (either traditional road/rail or broadband) is a farce and the cost of houses, etc makes sure that Irish staff have to be paid more than staff elsewhere.

Maybe we should do like the Government and look abroad for people to vote for on May 24th ? Maybe there are people there who would to the job better and/or cheaper ?

Hairy Marney told us to "shop around" - why doesn't the Government do the same ? If they have to look outside the country to get cheaper prices, shouldn't that tell them that the country is screwed and doesn't it make them completely po-faced when they tell the rest of us that the economy is booming and jobs are safe ?

louie wrote:

They do pay 200 euro for a poster in your garden if you are lucky to live in a visible area.

Don't even get me started on that one, louie; how they reckon that a picture of people will make you vote for them is beyond me.

If you remember someone because of coverage of what they've achieved, you vote for them.

I can't see how those litter-inducing posters are of benefit, unless we're all so fickle that we blank out the achivements, failures and corruption - we just see a poster and say - he'll get my vote :rolleyes:

Then again, if the posters had no photos and only had meaningful lists of improvements and achievements, there's no way you'd see Fianna Fail's postage-stamp sized posters - unless they fancied including their achievements and success at corruption ?

I also love Bertie's Photoshopped posters - they are so ironic that they're true, showing how "in touch" he is with real people. The fact that he has the same photo superimposed on billboards with old people, young people, etc sums it up so much that it should be a campaign slogan:

"Fianna Fail do their best to make it look like we're in touch with people, but we couldn't be arsed doing it for real because it'd take too much effort"

Well, we have 24/7 support, 7 days a week, and our own datacentre, networks, servers, infrastructure, and a head count of over 50 staff. All based in Dublin, yet we still offer highly competetive packages, which we're also just about to review and re-launch as even more competetive packages

Offshore hosting is over-rated

Stephen

In my experience, Irish hosting companies are very competitive as regards pricing. Tech support is also excellent, just this week I sent a query to my host just before midnight in expectation of a reply the following morning. It arrived before I had a chance to shut down my PC.

My only critisisms of Irish hosts is that they tend to lag when it comes to implementing new technologies, e.g. virtualised hosting and Java based hosting can be hard to come by.

Now, back to the politicians. As I said earlier, most parties (and individual canditates) do not develop their own sites, but use a web design service. I'm more surprised that they (web designers) do not host their sites in Ireland when practical. Do hosting companies not talk to design companies?? Though I might have been tempted to host certain party sites abroad just to be a **** stirrer

Not sure what you mean by 'stack up' - but outside the hosting 'giants' in the US, we probably have more support staff than most hosts, both in ireland and outside. We have reams of glowing testimonials from customers who experience rapid response and resolution at odd hours of the day

As for getting ripped off in Ireland, SLA's here are market leading, as is the technology and infrastructure - show me an 'apples with apples' comparison and I'll show you how Ireland is competetive.

Our main competitors are the 'big boys' in the UK and USA - if we werent competetive we wouldnt be here

Did a site for a politician lately - won't even say what party, but it was hosted with an Irish company. I always recommend Irish hosting.

Having said that I host some personally owned sites on a US managed VPS. I couldn't find any Irish companies who could approach the US price/specs, so I had to go international. Uptime and support has actually been top-notch too, I must say.