[HCoop-Discuss] Looking for new colo providers

[Clinton Ebadi]

Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> writes:

> Richard Darst wrote:
>> - HE.net 
>>   - could give us the remote hands service we would like, at the price
>>     we want (free for basic things, $125/hour for more advanced
>>     things, 24/7, and so on)
>>   - $300/month 1Mbps, $500/month 5Mbps.  It sounds like this includes
>>     7U of rack space (does it?
>
> 7U is way more space than we need.  We are using too much space now 
> because we're only deploying relatively underpowered servers.

Are you sure?

2U for a KVM
1U for a switch + IPKVM
1U for at least one server

So there is a *minimal* 4U in use, and I imagine we'll want at least two
physical machines. And one of them will probably be 2U if we want
anything deleuze-class as far as reliability is concerned (I think dual
power supplies and actual proper harder RAID5 instead of RAID1 is
essential for our central file server).

This puts up at 5-6U which is not particularly far from 7U... and then
what happens when we decide we need a third machine?

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