Iceland is cool (in just about every sense of the word!), but I'm not sure it does a lot of good for our users in the most difficult-to-serve areas: Asia, Africa, South America. (Notice the parallels with the "global south" areas.) It might be helpful for the Middle East.
I think it is easy to forget how well-serviced we are in North America and Europe; however, being in Hong Kong this year reinforced to me that even very good service there is not much better than "Western" dial-up. That becomes increasingly challenging as we add more and more "mandatory" javascript to every page that is opened.
Risker
On 21 October 2013 08:32, Dan Garry dgarry@wikimedia.org wrote:
I may just be spouting nonsense, but I've heard a few separate people mention to me that Iceland is an increasingly attractive place for hosting, as they're in the Schengen area (making it easy to get to) but *not* in the European Union (so not subject to EU laws on hosting data), it's got a lot of green energy, and cooling is cheaper because it's cold there.
If this is actually just hyperbole, I'd appreciate if someone told me why that is so, so that I can tell my friends why they're wrong! :-)
Dan
On 18 October 2013 21:05, Ken Snider ksnider@wikimedia.org wrote:
The Wikimedia Foundation's Technical Operations team is seeking proposals on the provisioning of a new data-centre facility.
After working through the specifics internally, we now have a public RFP posted[1] and ready for proposals. We invite any organization meeting the requirements outlined to submit a proposal for review.
Most of the relevant details are in the document itself, but feel free to reach out to myself or the list should anyone have any questions.
Please, feel free to forward this link far and wide - have colleagues, contacts or friends in the data-centre sector? Then please, forward it
on!
:)
Thanks!
--Ken.
[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/RFP/2013_Datacenter
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