On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote: > Hi Ken, > > Op 18-10-2013 22:05, Ken Snider schreef: > >> 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. > > You have stated some technical requirements, but not the availability you > would like to have. You probably want to include that you're looking for a > tier-4 data center > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_4_data_center#Data_center_tiers). Is > this one going to replace the Florida data center? Where are you keeping > documentation these days? The information on wikitech seems to be very > incomplete and outdated.
Wikitech is our best source of documentation.... > > Something related: While travelling in China I noticed the bad performance > of our sites. Would it be a good idea to investigate this (lack of) > performance and maybe consider a caching site somewhere in Asia? The latency > should be much better than getting is all the way from the USA. > http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/GLIF_5-11_World_4k.jpg (from > http://www.glif.is/publications/maps/) gives a good idea of connectivity by > the way. (Employee hat) - we are starting to move some of the Asian traffic to a new caching center on the US west coast, which has helped latency. (Personal hat) - I would love to get an Asian caching center (Hong Kong or Tokyo would be my top 2 choices), but IMHO the biggest barrier to this the time and availability of people resources. > > Maarten > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
