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.

The initial general goals are:

1. to address the need to increase MFPL backup capabilities,
   
2. to have part of our infrastructure located in a different set of legal conditions, those ruling telecommunications in México, which will eventually bring progressive mexican lawyer(s) close to our work to back us up,
   
3. to give a concrete initiative for the local support team to engage in MFPL development and to start collaborate locally,
   
4. to create conditions to share sysadmin skills in a process what will benefit mexican counterparts by providing us guidance and the experience and background from the US tech-team,
   
5. to share responsibilities with local techies in the maintenance and development of MFPL infrastructure.

Three aspects of this proposal are:

• Co-location costs (budget).
  
  • Criteria:
    
    • Pricing in Mbits/second, not in GB/TB total transfer per month. We should aim for about 5 Mbit/second.
    • Start with 2U (we will need at least two machines connected via serial cables to allow remote restart with passphrase).
    • 24/7 access to the facility without needing advance notice
    • Option to expand
  • Providers:
    
    • ​Metro Red
• Server (and rack) prices (budget)
  
  • Criteria:
    
    • Hot-swap disk drives: disk drives are the most common hardware replacement item
    • Purchase Hard disks separately. Dell hard disks are significantly more expensive then comparable disks bought elsewhere.
  • Options
    • 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. ​The cost offered by Dell without the Embedded Management Card:iDRAC6 Enterprise was close to MXN $61,000 (USD $4,690 by Dec 26th)
• Local organizing of the mexican support team. People interested in joining: Jesús Franco (individual MFPL member), Iván Carrasco (member through Comité Cerezo), Enrique Rosas (MFPL co-director)