More damage to liberty than I expected.

[Ken Brown]

An Metet wrote:
 
> >Havenco's talked for a while about metastasizing,
> >putting servers in a bunch of places for reliable fast performance
> >for non-critical data and mainly keeping the critical database parts
> 
> There are persistent rumors that Havenco does not really host anything on the platform, all bits are on dry land with VPN pipes to the platform, so that it looks off-shore hosted.
> 
> In other words, the platform is a decoy, storage-wise.

Server hosting is now a boring, commodity business.   You needs some
marketing ploy to get mindshare from potential customers.

The kind of people who decide where their company's servers are to be
hosted are often the kind of people who used to make plastic models of
military hardware when they were kids. Who have coffee-table books about
planes with lots of pointy bits. Maybe even ones who read Bruce Sterling
novels. They also like to think that their data is Really Important.

Sealand or the Bunker (http://www.thebunker.net/) are good PR,
regardless of the technical merits of their locations.

Ken Brown