Re: Recommendations for Hong Kong datacenter, and a sanity check for my geopolitical conclusions ?

[Benjamin Billon <bbillon-ml () splio fr>]

The process is good, I did the same excepted I also potentially needed 
good Mainland China connectivity (what are the obvious reasons?), 
otherway I think would have take the Singapore option. Getting things 
done there is not a problem either.

I choose the Mega iAdvantage datacenters in HK.


Benjamin

George Sanders a écrit :
> 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.
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