| | 1 | This page intends to provide us with enough elements to evaluate whether is convenient to install a server (or several servers) in a co-location in Mexico City. |
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| | 3 | The initial general goals are: |
| | 4 | 1) to address the need to increase MFPL backup capabilities, |
| | 5 | 2) to have part of our infrastructure located in a different set of legal conditions, those ruling telecommunications in México, which eventually bring progressive lawyer(s) close to our work to back us up. |
| | 6 | 3) to give a concrete initiative for the local support team to engage in MFPL development and to start collaborate locally, |
| | 7 | 4) to create conditions to share technical skills in a process what will benefit mexican counterparts by providing us guidance and the experience and background from the US tech-team, |
| | 8 | 5) to share responsibilities with local techies in the maintenance and development of MFPL infrastructure. |
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| | 11 | Three aspects of this proposal are: |
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| | 13 | * Co-location costs (budget). Providers: |
| | 14 | [http://www.metrored.com/ Metro Red] |
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| | 16 | * Server (and rack) prices (budget) |
| | 17 | A recent server installation experience in the Heirich Boell Found give us a sense of what are the prices of a Dell PowerEdge R310 server, bought and delivered in México City. Specifications as reported by the BIOS attached here: |
| | 18 | The cost offered by Dell without the Embedded Management Card:iDRAC6 Enterprise was close to MXN $61,000 |
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| | 20 | * Local organizing of the mexican support team. |
| | 21 | People interested in joining: Jesús Franco (individual MFPL member), Iván Carrasco (member through Comité Cerezo), Enrique Rosas (MFPL co-director) |
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