[Hcoop-discuss] Next steps for HCoop

[Adam Chlipala]

I think we've reached a good point where we're stable at our current 
level of services, so what better time to start planning for expanding 
services and reducing stability? :-)

I've edited this page with some ideas:
    http://wiki.hcoop.net/wiki/ColocationPlans
about what we should aim for during our next server expansion.  Would 
anyone like to share any other wishes for improvements to our services, 
alternate suggestions for what our next hosting set-up should look like, 
or anything in that vein?

Naturally, more stuff means more money, so it's important for us to find 
more members to lower the cost per person.  If future members have the 
same average resource usage of current members, then it looks like we 
can support about 3 times more, which would be an increase to about 200 
members from 50.  If we only consider our current set-up, disk space 
seems to be the limiting factor.  Both CPU load and bandwidth usage seem 
to be low enough now that we could definitely take a factor-of-four 
increase in both.

That leaves the question of how we are going to find these new members.  
It's always seemed to me that HCoop is something that huge numbers of 
geeks would find very attractive, and it's just a matter of tipping them 
off to its existence.  Does anyone have suggestions for lucrative ways 
to spread the word?

It also seems important to figure out how much we expect our next 
hosting set-up to cost, as well as how many members we want to have 
before switching to it.  Thoughts?

We had an above-average amount of participation from members in the 
logo/site design activity recently, but I still feel like I'm doing too 
much of the work here.  I hope that other people can step up and take 
charge of some of the issues that I've raised here.