[HCoop-Discuss] Ideas for new physical hosting and personnel arrangements

[Davor Ocelic]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:26:49AM -0400, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> At the last HCoop board meeting, the board seemed overall enthusiastic 
> about the idea of redoing our physical arrangements from the ground up.  
> The basic idea is to identify a locale with all of these properties:
> 1) Low cost of living
> 2) At least one quality colocation site (hopefully with relatively low cost)
> 3) A good supply of qualified people who would be interested in working 
> as HCoop sysadmins part-time for pay

I'd like to clarify the reasons for this intiative, in case some of our
members did not actively track our past discussions on the subject:

- We need more space in our hardware cabinet
- We need more processing power than we currently have
- We need to improve situation regarding the reliability of our hardware
- We need more admins, primarily in critical situations & in case of
unexpected failures which first and foremost require timely intervention

There is a realistic possibility that we could achieve that by
moving to a different colocation facility, where we could get the
Internet link and lease new hardware (which includes support contract)
for a price greater but comparable to what we are paying now.

We would also like to have a capable student or students as our on-site
sysadmins, so we are also looking for a city with both good internet
colocation facilities and IT-related universities, and relatively low
cost of living.

Everyone is welcome to both give ideas about such locations, and/or
discuss Adam's thread about which direction HCoop members want
HCoop to go.

Thanks,
-doc