[109574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Dec 1 16:34:40 2008
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:34:26 -0500
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200812011603.39893.lowen@pari.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 16:03:39 -0500
Lamar Owen <lowen@pari.edu> wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008 13:27:30 Danny McPherson wrote:
> > On a related noted, some have professed that adapting old
> > ships into data centers would provide eco-friendly secure
> > data center solutions.
>
> You mean something akin to Sealand's HavenCo? Yes, I know that's an
> old fort, and not a ship, but a similar concept at least.
>
>
HavenCo, which ran a datacenter on the "nation" of Sealand, is
no longer operating there:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/25/havenco/
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
