[HCoop-Discuss] VPS hosting for HCoop

[Daniel Margolis]

Are the recurring costs with our current setup cheaper? We still pay for 
bandwidth and rack space. In the prior thread, the numbers I dug up 
seemed to indicate that the recurring costs with VPS were lower. I 
didn't even factor in the capital costs of buying hardware.

On 5/17/2009 4:01 PM, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> Shaun Empie wrote:
>    
>> The only reason I was saying it wasn't a great idea is that it will cost
>> more in the long run.  The setup we have now has fixed recurring monthly
>> costs and fixed hw upgrade costs to expand.  A VPS has recurring monthly
>> costs that go up once we start to expand.
>>
>>      
>
> Right, but a lot of those costs cover staff who keep the hardware in
> order, replacements for broken machines, etc..  To get similar coverage
> on our own, we would need to always have spares of every kind of
> hardware on hand, which is a non-trivial new cost; _and_ we would need
> to have admins who are willing to go to the data center at all hours of
> the day, which is another non-trivial cost, since no volunteer is going
> to commit to that.  We would also need folks willing to go to the data
> center to set up new hardware as we expand.  We've seen how slow that's
> been with some of our recent hardware tweaks.
>
> Once we have enough members that it's no big deal to pay admins to be on
> physical call 24/7, then it makes sense to own and maintain all of our
> own hardware, cost-wise, but I don't think it makes sense before that point.
>
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