While physical location of the hosting is of little relevance to
the hosting customers, it is important to the hosting services
themselves. Microsoft and Google are both buying land to build
data centers in the Columbia River valley up near Portland because
of the availability of cheap, dependable hydro power.
Access to cheap power is another thing that improves with scale
and is a barrier to local/co-op hosting businesses.
Rene
Dan Coutu wrote:
To make Mike's idea work you'd need to secure hundreds of customers (or
more) and have a significant sized facility with generator backup,
redundant high bandwidth connections, and a crew of at least 9
operations personnel to provide round the clock monitoring and support.
That's a very significant investment. I don't know if it could be made
to work since, as Mike points out, there is strong competition from
non-local providers and to a large extent the physical location of
hosting servers is becoming less relevant as time goes on.
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