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

[Tom Sands <tsands () rackspace com>]

Equinix and Mega-iAdvantage are both good choices.  Equinix is just 
standing up their peering exchange in HK, so this is something they have 
over Mega-I, and both can offer connectivity to HKIX.

Outside of the locations above, our HK presence is also a floor in a 
PCCW facility, which has been good so far.  I'm also not a sales person, 
but we could offer the capability you are looking for, though we aren't 
colo if you ever needed physical access to your equipment.



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Tom Sands                                                       
Chief Network Engineer                          
Rackspace Managed Hosting                               
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Chris McDonald wrote:
> Making every effort to not pimp my employer (pccw), I would say that
> the Equinix in HK is good and they have a decent equinix direct
> product (one bill to pay).  If you're looking more for a "managed
> colo", pccw owns powerbase which does that sort of thing.  HKCOLO is
> good but space is hard to come by.
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> On 7/24/09, George Sanders <gosand1982 () yahoo com> wrote:
> > 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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