Re: DATACENTER: Caribbean

["José" "Domínguez" <jad@network-services.uoregon.edu>]

On 05/03/2001 16:44 EDT, Nathan Stratton wrote:
 
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, José Domínguez wrote:
> 
> > When you say the Caribbean, what do you really mean? Which island?
> > Every island will handle things very differently.
> >
> > Shipping will be the easiest part since most countries will have
> > have UPS/DHL/Fedex.
> 
> I have built a small data center in Dominican Republic and Jamaica. They
> each have different issues. Shipping should not be that hard, but be
> prepared to pay off the locals to get your stuff safe and sounds to your
> building. The biggest issues I found had to do with getting reliable
> power. In the DR your best bet it to just generate it on site.
> 

Didn't you do some consulting for CODETEL? I seem to remember your 
name being mentioned by some of the guys there.

If equipment is sent via global carrier they will usually take car of 
the paperwork and charge you for it. 

As you mention, power will be a major issue in DR since they've been 
having serious power problems for several years. They claim to be 
working towards solving that but I doubts that would happen any time 
soon. Your best bet is to plan for a good generator. Do not think of 
it as an emergency generator since it'll probably be on a good part 
of every day.

José.