On 02/08/2012, at 10:50 AM, Joel Wirāmu Pauling
a) The data centre is a very good quality one with lots of power and people who are clueful and sane commercially (ie. don't act like d**ks because your _THE_ site to go). b) It has good onsite services so that my NOC guys can call up and get stuff done 24x7 c) It has *freaking awesome* connectivity to *EVERY* provider in NZ that matters, including TNZ, TC, Vodafone etc so that one deployment can pickup almost all of NZ and that access to the landing stations or connectivity out of NZ is cheap and easy. d) Less importantly it's easy to get to from Auckland airport, it's got a good hotel nearby and some nice food.
As long as a,b and c are met then people will start appearing. Build it and they will come.
MMC
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a) rules out Auckland then. Power situation in Auckland is not good and due simply where the power sources in NZ are is more points for South centre.
And we're back to North vs South. Didn't take long. Let me be blunt: The answer is Auckland because that's the largest centre of population and near the current landing stations. No one who wants to deliver content to you cares about anywhere else. Accept it and make it work. You need to make this EASY for us content people. You're competing with: a) building in Sydney and ignoring these crazy people on these islands to the East b) Other places in the world who have a central location for building, or a much higher return due to population etc. As long as you're spending time and effort making grand plans and having p***ing contests about internal issues then (a) and (b) will win. Currently and historically (a) and (b) continue to win because of these incessant and never ending internal fights which carve up the connectivity into bits that are too hard to deal with. This isn't a dating game. Content is *not* looking for hard to get. Content is looking for a location where everyone is a mere cross connect away and nothing harder. Preferably with a nice IX which everyone is at as well. On one hand you say "we're not big enough" but then you spend all the time making grand plans suitable for countries many, many times bigger and wonder why they don't work. Break that behaviour. Group together, solve THIS problem. MMC