On Nov 17, 1:15 am, Bodaniel Jeanes <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah I completely agree. This seems like a security thing not a "omg all the > money is going outside australia" thing. I'd rather my important and private > information with big Australian corporations weren't hosted in Singapore or > elsewhere, to be honest...
Been gone too long to be able to comment on local regulations, but I'm working for an online gaming company based in London/Malta/ Gibraltar/"Who knows where else" and so can comment on that. Given the volume of transaction we process we fall under a pretty stringent level of PCI compliance from the card issuers, and failure to meet it means we can't take card payments (and would ultimately go out of business as a result). One of those requirements is that we must be able to provide full details on all software running on the "hardware", that is the physical machine. That completely rules out any possibility of running any servers on a shared VPS, cloud, or any other virtualised service. Our own hardware, sitting in our own rack somewhere is the only option. And to a large extent I can understand the rationale behind it. That doesn't mean we can't run core parts of gaming in the cloud, just that the financial stuff needs to be completely isolated. If we had to put card processing into the cloud for scalability reasons it would be a very, very, very good problem to have ;) I'm not entirely surprised by this, just hope that it's more than a boozy lunch and a secret handshake followed by a cursory tick from a regulatory body that stops my bank handing over all my details to Amazon. -- Glenn Gillen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
