Making every effort to not pimp my employer (pccw), I would say that the Equinix in HK is good and they have a decent equinix direct product (one bill to pay). If you're looking more for a "managed colo", pccw owns powerbase which does that sort of thing. HKCOLO is good but space is hard to come by.
On 7/24/09, George Sanders <gosand1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I will be expanding a small network infrastructure service (read: DNS and > mail ... a few 1u and 2u servers) to Hong Kong next year. > > We don't have any particular customer base in Hong Kong - rather, we have > customers all over southeast asia and would like to serve them better, as > well as attract more SE Asia customers. > > I chose Hong Kong for the following reasons: > > - South Korea is alternately happy with / upset with Japan, and I don't want > to deal with that > > - Japan is is alternately happy with / upset with South Korea, and I don't > want to deal with that > > - Mainland China is out of the question, for obvious reasons > > - The smaller (Thailand, Vietnamese, Phillipines, etc.) countries all have > their own particular issues (recent coup in Thailand, etc.) > > So the choice came down to Hong Kong or Singapore, and I chose Hong Kong > because it seems easier to "just get things done" there. I realize that in > the long term there is a greater risk of social paradigm shift in Hong Kong > because of mainland China, but in the short run it seems that Hong Kong is > more "functional" than Singapore. > > Any comments on the above thought process ? > > > The obvious follow-up is, which datacenter ? > > I need a full service center that will give me rackspace and let me just > plug ethernet into their switch. I am not interested in brokering my own > connectivity, nor am I interested in running my own routers. I want to pay > one bill to one organization and get one cable. The end. > > I think there are further considerations though ... I read details of one > very modern, very sexy datacenter housed in a skyscraper, but my research > showed me that this building has been built on land reclaimed from the sea, > and there is reasonable concern that the sand underpinnings could liquify, > to a degree, in a seismic event. I'd also like to be more than a few feet > above sea level. Honestly, as sexy as it would be to be in a slick tower > right on the bay in Central Hong Kong, I would much rather find some > nondescript, one story building, miles from the coast and a few hundred feet > above sea level. > > What recommendations might someone have ? > > Thank you very much for any comments or suggestions you may have. > > > > -- Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com
