[Hcoop-discuss] Server pricing

[Adam Chlipala]

Justin S. Leitgeb wrote:

>Based on our discussions, and from looking at our utilization of fyodor, 
>buying two of these (one for login and user files, the other hcoop 
>administration and services, including IMAP) should keep us going for a 
>while quite comfortably.  So, a starting hardware package, in my 
>estimate, would cost $4224, with basic redundancy and room to grow.
>
So you don't think it's appropriate to have a dedicated file server?  I 
thought that we had definitely agreed on using a shared filesystem in a 
previous thread.  Are you proposing that the "hcoop administration and 
services" server be the one with the terabytes of storage attached to 
it?  (I have no doubt that even the current membership size could 
gainfully use a terabyte of disk space if we announced that we could 
support arbitrary amounts of it.)