[Hcoop-discuss] Next steps for HCoop

[Justin Hart]

It sounds silly, but flyering isn't such a bad idea, or just telling friends.

Justin

On 11/26/05, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Justin W. Hart