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As someone who operates a fairly large datacenter in Iceland, I'm open to suggestions on how to cater to the "datahaven" crowd. Of all of the datacenters in Ic
by s_henry_paulson 14y ago
As someone who operates a fairly large datacenter in Iceland, I'm open to suggestions on how to cater to the "datahaven" crowd.
Of all of the datacenters in Iceland, the majority of it is all local business, and although there always seems to be chat of how perfect it would be (cheap power, better laws, strong fiber infrastructure, etc.), the reality is much different.
So, where to start? More specific specialized services? Advertising?
- rdl 14y agoI'd probably focus on disaster diversity and "able to serve US-East and EU from a single datacenter". US-West (OR) + Iceland + Asia potentially better than US-West + US-East + EU + Asia. or US-East + EU + Asia. The other thing would be having very clear and pro user terms of service, and whatever changes in national law are needed. Maybe some tech changes (DDoS protection?) + specific marketing to vertical markets (casinos, vpn providers, usenet, torrent sites, ...), but I'm not sure what the current state is in Iceland. If you're doing colo, it's more knowing people and maybe having a few case studies. For some kind of virtualized/managed/etc. offering, then I'd personally judge based on terms of service, measured service quality, and how secure the administrative procedures are (i.e. no rackspace/linode style administrative override...)