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