Hi Ken,
Op 18-10-2013 22:05, Ken Snider schreef:
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.
You have stated some technical requirements, but not
the availability
you would like to have. You probably want to include that you're looking
for a tier-4 data center
(
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_4_data_center#Data_center_tiers). Is
this one going to replace the Florida data center? Where are you keeping
documentation these days? The information on wikitech seems to be very
incomplete and outdated.
Something related: While travelling in China I noticed the bad
performance of our sites. Would it be a good idea to investigate this
(lack of) performance and maybe consider a caching site somewhere in
Asia? The latency should be much better than getting is all the way from
the USA.
http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/GLIF_5-11_World_4k.jpg
(from
http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/) gives a good idea of
connectivity by the way.
Maarten