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Are the recurring costs with our current setup cheaper? We still pay
for bandwidth and rack space. In the prior thread, the numbers I dug up
seemed to indicate that the recurring costs with VPS were lower. I
didn't even factor in the capital costs of buying hardware. <br>
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On 5/17/2009 4:01 PM, Adam Chlipala wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The only reason I was saying it wasn't a great idea is that it will cost
more in the long run. The setup we have now has fixed recurring monthly
costs and fixed hw upgrade costs to expand. A VPS has recurring monthly
costs that go up once we start to expand.
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Right, but a lot of those costs cover staff who keep the hardware in
order, replacements for broken machines, etc.. To get similar coverage
on our own, we would need to always have spares of every kind of
hardware on hand, which is a non-trivial new cost; _and_ we would need
to have admins who are willing to go to the data center at all hours of
the day, which is another non-trivial cost, since no volunteer is going
to commit to that. We would also need folks willing to go to the data
center to set up new hardware as we expand. We've seen how slow that's
been with some of our recent hardware tweaks.
Once we have enough members that it's no big deal to pay admins to be on
physical call 24/7, then it makes sense to own and maintain all of our
own hardware, cost-wise, but I don't think it makes sense before that point.
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