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Telecommunication companies have been laying submarine cables at the bottom of the ocean floors for decades to connect multinational tele-infrastructures. What if we can "smuggle" an electricity cable inside one of these fibre optic cables. And suddenly, we get the best of both worlds in an underwater
situation, high speed internet hookup and the power supply required to power up water proof web server. How does any individual operate a web server and turn it into an equivalence of a "portable Sealand" or "portable Uotsuri island"? Well, let's see. Go and find a dog house big enough to house your linux server and a thermostat to control condensation, seal it well. Find a yacht owner willing to take you to international water. Before you lay down your dog house down at the bottom of the ocean to be hooked up, utter the command "sink and stay".
a related HB idea
http://www.halfbake...idea/Good-bye_20USA
take a look at the HavenCo link [Laughs Last, Oct 04 2004]
ReefCam
http://www.bonairew.../BonaireReefCam.php
[wagster, Jan 14 2007]
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I thought you were gonna talk about how you wouldn't be subjected to any particular countries' law because the server would be in international water. |
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Price of one i386 based subsea PC running MS-DOS (as of October 2002) ~ $15,000. |
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Cost of installing or repairing said subsea PC ~ $400,000/day (or part thereof). |
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Probability of anyone being able to afford an effective subsea web server ~ 0. |
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Having the only deep-sea webcam ~ priceless. |
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Why smuggle electricity? Power the server with a small nuclear energy system. The ocean provides all the cooling you could need. |
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You'd need a new top level domain for this server. Since you're underwater, how about .wet ? |
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If you seal the linux server in a doghouse underwater, how is the penguin going to breathe? |
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On a serious note, sealing a box against the kind of pressure that you would see at the bottom of the ocean would be very hard. Instead, fill the interior of the dog house with a dielectric liquid. Then there would be no problem with the pressure, the dog house would only need to be liquid tight, which you could do with a giant Ziploc bag. |
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why do you need dielectric fluid. No really, maybe there is a reason, but I'm not familiar with it. I'd go the cheap option and fill it with high performance hydraulic fluid. |
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Interesting idea... and if you need to replace the hard drive or any other component you'll need deep water scuba gear. Have fun with that! |
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