redeploying server farms

Matt Cramer cramer at unix01.voicenet.com
Mon Apr 9 13:55:07 PDT 2001


On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Jordan Hayes wrote:


> I saw a proposal once for special connection-only airports to be built
> way out in the middle of nowhere so that they wouldn't bother the
> people in the population centers, and the real estate was cheap (the
> new Denver airport is almost like this). Telemarketing is sorta like
> that (Omaha and Sioux City; whoda thunk it?).
>
> I hope server farms are next.

They go where the bandwidth goes. Office space in Manhattan's Silicon Alley may be expensive as all hell, but getting large pipes from multiple Tier-1 providers to your site in Outer Wookatong, North Dakota isn't very cheap either.

Matt

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