Jake Nelson wrote:

The thought's crossed my mind a few times as well- they've got very good connectivity, and IIRC, it's about $5k for a colo rack slot, which isn't unreasonable for being outside of national jurisdictions.

It might not be unreasonable if we were doing anything illegal or controversial. But we aren't. If anything, I'm going to be struggling with my own moral reservations about government funding rather than worrying about governments shutting us down. We're just the sort of feel-good project that politicians love to take credit for.

Because of our license, copies of Wikipedia's database are already on probably thousands of machines all over the world. The servers are based in the U.S., where the First Amendment as well as the general culture give us broad protection and political support.

I think Havenco is neat, but for us, it's really not desirable.

--Jimbo