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I hope so. Waiting
Today is monday
April, when.
Oh I see, they must used the network here (http://www.nouptime.com/) in Hong Kong.
It's April for another 17 days
We have the last shipment of storage in Customs in HK right now, once it rack's we're good to go.
Wow, Soon(tm) isn't it?
Or am I playing Life is Strange too long, that I have become... have the power?
Humm, what am I exactly looking at?
Or dediserve got the Valve timezone correctly? (oh, is this black mesa?
@dediserve ... ugh been waiting for Monday to try your HK location, so its not happening today huh?
We have the last shipment of storage in Customs in HK right now, once it rack's we're good to go.
Unfortunately, customs and border controls in Asia seem much much more troublesome than our European and US locations... but we're almost done. Clouds like ours are large and complicated beasts and take time to build right.
What customs....? I never had a server go through customs shipped from EU to HK, UPS usually delivered them after ~4days without any checks
Curious.. Wouldn't the size of the package matter? I.E the amount of servers etc... ?
@William We tend to not have issue with single servers / replacements / parts, but our platforms (particularly new builds) are shipped configured from London on Pallets, so the scale and weight is significant. Typically less likely to fly under the radar at customs / border control.
Maybe now, but not in the last years (neither does value matter much, considering HK has no import tax/EU+Tech exceptions).
Largest i had shipped with someone were 4 3U Dell boxes on a pallet 2012 (Declared 20000EUR, Carrier TNT, NL->HK in non-factory sealed original boxes) plus a bunch of single servers/spares over the years from Austria, NL and UK.
One package was opened by customs in NL already and sealed (probably some sort of pre-customs check for countries that trust each other) (traveled ~4 working days, fastest i ever had), the others came unopened to the DC (after 6-14 working days) (Pics the've sent did show the original packaging tape/plastic cover) - I've used TNT, UPS and Fedex, always declared real value, added printed purchase orders/contracts to the papers (if available) and had the shipper obtain and note an EORI number (Found no english page, http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/EORI-Nummer - Sort of an Import/Export ID for a company).
Packages that fit through automated Xray machines should in theory be a bit faster as well.
HK is a fairly easy shipping target, as is SG (English as law language makes things easier), ID no idea - Russia and China are in particular horrible (shady shippers offer fairly good rates for this areas though, mostly picking up from Poland, never used), Israel and the Arabs take forever for customs checks (and they are extremely thorough), South America requires often "payments" to rather strange people locally that can "arrange" things (but you still pay the insane import taxes, Brazil has like 150% on technology, Argentina requires you to pay in local currency (preferably in cash in some shady Buenos Aires gov agency), Chile is fairly ok at ~25%)...
Hello April, ETA HK?
April only 8 days left ...
Hours ago I got it worked.
any new progress? the last day of April
April 2016 dude
Soon™
Unfortunately we've hit delays with HK due to new Export regulations. We ship our clouds 'built' on pallets from the UK and due to the amount of compute power, they are deemed' dual use' and require a special export license to send to China
While we procure the license, we're working ahead on Sydney and Dubai (Jakarta needs the same license as HK).
Once done, we're going to refocus on US and Canada, and another location in Europe!
@dediserve any new ETA for Jakarta? Is this will be a month or two delay or more likely years of delay or not going to happen?
Looks like local companies starts protect local business from western companies trying impact to Asian market That easiest way..
Jakarta (like HK) are already contracted, IPs assigned. We hope to have the hardware there asap in the next couple of weeks. We'll launch Sydney in the mean time and then likely Jak and HK will be at the same time.
You don't say Jakarta Jak, but JKT
or maybe Cibitung
How much BW in Dubai? Price for extra traffic? Sounds interesting, only ISP there is currently charging like 100EUR for 1GB/100GB..
All our locations are the same in terms of terms and price
Just get HP to supply via a local distributor, if you get a global account manager then you can get global pricing. So they'll take care of the whole process of currency management.
You'll get a bill in EUR/GBP and they'll deliver it to the door pre-staged.
We do this all the time even to the craziest of places and whilst you end up paying 5-10% extra on the kit to get it preconfigured/precabled, its easier than shipping it, remote warranty (as you wont have any warranty validity on EU kit in Asia) and its their headache to get it to site.
Vote for Jakarta server location.
How much will it cost for jakarta? $5? @dediserve