Iceland is cool (in just about every sense of the word!), but I'm not sure it does a lot of good for our users in the most difficult-to-serve areas: Asia, Africa, South America. (Notice the parallels with the "global south" areas.) It might be helpful for the Middle East.
I think it is easy to forget how well-serviced we are in North America and Europe; however, being in Hong Kong this year reinforced to me that even very good service there is not much better than "Western" dial-up. That becomes increasingly challenging as we add more and more "mandatory" javascript to every page that is opened. Risker On 21 October 2013 08:32, Dan Garry <dga...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > I may just be spouting nonsense, but I've heard a few separate people > mention to me that Iceland is an increasingly attractive place for hosting, > as they're in the Schengen area (making it easy to get to) but *not* in the > European Union (so not subject to EU laws on hosting data), it's got a lot > of green energy, and cooling is cheaper because it's cold there. > > If this is actually just hyperbole, I'd appreciate if someone told me why > that is so, so that I can tell my friends why they're wrong! :-) > > Dan > > > On 18 October 2013 21:05, Ken Snider <ksni...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Most of the relevant details are in the document itself, but feel free to > > reach out to myself or the list should anyone have any questions. > > > > Please, feel free to forward this link far and wide - have colleagues, > > contacts or friends in the data-centre sector? Then please, forward it > on! > > :) > > > > Thanks! > > > > --Ken. > > > > [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/RFP/2013_Datacenter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > -- > Dan Garry > Associate Product Manager for Platform > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
