On Jul 25, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Charles Wyble wrote:
Yes, thank you - that was the datacenter I had read about in my own
research. What did you think of the height of that building and
its location on reclaimed sea land ? It makes me nervous, but as I
said in a different message in this thread, it looks like ALL of
urban HK is reclaimed so ... who knows.
Well where does the HK govt put there servers? If they outsource
them to a colo, then that might be an interesting place to start.
Sinking into the sea seems a remote possibility.
Hong Kong is considered to be in a low seismic risk area and is not
near a plate boundary. I don't think that there has ever been a major
Earthquake recorded there. Past performance of course is no guarantee
of future results.
See, e.g.,
http://www.cedd.gov.hk/eng/publications/information_notes/doc/in_2007_05e.pdf
Regards
Marshall
I don't know much about Hong Kong. I imagine others on the list
might be able to speak to that better.
I was saying that I did not want the servers _inside of_ China, for
obvious reasons. Although the actual geography of shenzhen makes
it much more appealing, even though we want greater freedom RE:
content/filtering/freedom of speech/etc. (if only for principles
sake).
Something something govt event, something something shutting down/
throttling all connectivity to get there message out.
The point is, that placing servers directly in China presents
significant operational issues, that a business can understand (hey
guess what we can't hit our VPN at random times completely outside
our control). It has nothing to do with free speech, and everything
to do with continuity of operations.
China is.... difficult. I was tangentially related to a China
deployment project for a massive e-commerce company. My manager was
discussing the project, and I told him I wanted nothing to do with it.
Every time my team mate turned around there was another discussion
with legal going on. Not to mention EVERYTHING was 100% outsourced.
It was pure unbridled hell for everyone involved with the project.
