Hoi,
Are some of our partners in Wikipedia Zero not caching already ?
Thanks,
GerardM
On 19 October 2013 12:59, Leslie Carr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>
> 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 incomplete and outdated.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
> >
> >
> >
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