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Yeah, right, and how exactly are they planning to enforce that on all those international customers? Seems like wishful thinking on the part of the tax departme
by swombat 16y ago
Yeah, right, and how exactly are they planning to enforce that on all those international customers? Seems like wishful thinking on the part of the tax department - and wishful thinking that isn't likely to last long, because if they do somehow try to enforce this, they'll just drive all their hosting businesses out of Texas.
- jackowayed 16y agoWell, driving all their hosting businesses would be a very slow process if it happened at all. First, the hosting companies would have to find/build enough datacenter space for all their servers that are currently in TX. This includes abandoning large investments into their TX datacenters, which will lose value if this exodus really occurs. Once they've done that, they have to move the stuff. VPSes and shared hosting are probably fairly easy to move with minimal downtime (as long as you have enough extra hardware), but Rackspace would have one hell of a time getting all of their customers to move their colo-ed servers to another state. Also, there are reasons that TX has so many datacenters. Land is pretty cheap, as is power thanks to all their wind energy. It's in the middle of the country, helping you have low latency to both coasts. It's a great place to put a datacenter.