Hardware in a second jurisdiction
Server hardware operated in Japan. The interesting engineering problem is not the machines; it is running them properly while being somewhere else, under a different legal and operational regime.
What this is
Owned hardware in a second country. Like the San Diego rack, it is lab and personal infrastructure rather than a commercial service offering.
The actual lesson
Two sites in two jurisdictions force you to be honest about the things a single-site setup lets you fudge: who has physical access, what happens when a hand is needed and yours is eleven time zones away, whose law applies to the data sitting on the disks, and which local relationship you have to build before you need it rather than during the incident.
Status
Operating as personal and lab infrastructure. No published capacity, performance, or availability figures, because none have been measured in a way that would mean anything to a buyer.