On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten(a)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incomplete and outdated.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
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