Tim Starling wrote:
It accomplishes the acquisition of hardware that we
wouldn't have had
otherwise. The hardware/hosting donations were contingent on their
location.
In the case of the two largest donations, Yahoo and Big Company X (to be
announced later), the donation could easily flow directly into our
existing Florida facility. I proposed Asia to Yahoo and they liked the
idea, but it wasn't a deal-breaker. They want to help us in a way that
we find useful.
Similarly Big Company X is basically giving us a very flexible offer.
Come up with what we want, they will supply it.
Now, Belnet and the Dutch organization (to be announced at the end of
this month) *were* geography specific, as were the Paris squids.
But we can do anything anywhere, including a massive upgrade of our
florida facility.
One possibility would be an architecture with:
1. Squids everywhere, i.e. anywhere we can get a set of 4-6 squid-class
machines hosted for free, we accept it.
2. Everything else is in Florida
3. Except for a site geographically remote with all the databases in
place and joyfully doing remote backup.
This is probably the easiest to administer (but am I wrong?) but would
leave us the "Hurricane single point of failure".
--Jimbo