Launch of local hosting, amazing speed and bigger file sizes
15 Sep 2008 
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When Vodacom invested in Zoopy just over two months ago, we hinted at the great opportunities that lay ahead. Today, we’re introducing two of the large scale community improvements that mark the beginning of many more good things to come for our users.
Until now, visitors from South Africa have been viewing and contributing to Zoopy using international bandwidth to connect to Zoopy’s overseas servers. This is pretty much standard practice for most medium to large online businesses in SA, who are often left with little option but to host internationally when faced with much higher local hosting fees.
The downside to hosting outside of the country, however, is reduced loading speed of websites and, in Zoopy’s case, media files like videos and photos.
Local hosting. Amazing speed.
We’re happy to say that this is now a thing of the past for Zoopy visitors. As of today, we have servers in South Africa that will deliver Zoopy content using local bandwidth for South Africans. The significantly slower international speeds and low bandwidth caps in SA (many users only budget for the 3gb they receive per month) have left us as frustrated as any other internet user in the country. So
we’re prepared to do what it takes to deliver our media at amazing speeds, whether viewed on Zoopy.com or embedded on other sites or blogs. And for our members, an increase in upload speeds when adding media to your Zoopy profile will make things quicker and more
convenient too.
Bigger file sizes. More expression.
We’ve also now increased our upload file size limit from 100mb to 200mb. If we’re giving visitors a quicker and more comfortable experience over local bandwidth, we wanted to add to the enjoyment by giving them more space to express themselves as well.
Members now have 200mb to play with and can upload longer or better quality versions of your videos, for example. As always, this service remains completely free.
These improvements are part of a determined plan to bring the Zoopy community everything you need to manage, view and share your media in all the ways you’ve hoped for, and more.
If there’s something you think we should be doing but aren’t, or are doing but shouldn’t, please let us know. We read every mail and always reply.
We hope that you enjoy the bigger, faster Zoopy and that you keep coming back for more 
It is a crucial move for video. I’ve had a little taste of it over at Speakerbox and it sure works great.
But local on a big scale is gonna cost you. Maybe more than it’s worth in the end.
@Foxinni The biggest question here for us was: how could we afford NOT to move in this direction for the South African online community at Zoopy? Our users deserve more, and we’re happy to deliver.
Great one guys! This is what I (and I’m sure lots of other South Africans) have been waiting for. We really need to maximise our local bandwidth and this is definitely a step in the right direction.