[HCoop-Discuss] On organizing people to get work done

[David Snider]

I'm not sure how to estimate the number of 'instance hours' we have on
HCOOP. I'd be curious to know what the cost of running HCOOP would be if we
were running a similar usage pattern on Amazon EC3.

http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html

Anybody know how to do this?

On Thu, 07 May 2009 15:21:45 -0400, Adam Chlipala <adamc at hcoop.net> wrote:
> David Snider wrote:
>> What are people's feelings about buying into a few Virtual Private
> Servers
>> rather than having our own dedicated hardware? You'd think the more
>> fine-grained scalability of this type of setup along with not having to
>> worry about 'one-time-costs' that we've had in the past would benefit an
>> organization like ours.
>>
> 
> I see that as a short-term solution only.  In the long run, it will cost
> more to use VPSes than our own servers, if we manage to grow the
> membership base as I hope we do.  It's been suggested many times that we
> offer our own VPS service, and I think that's a great idea, once we get
> our staffing and physical hosting situations into shape to implement it.
> 
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