[HCoop-Discuss] VPS hosting for HCoop

[Daniel Margolis]

I suspect I'm not the only member who would rather save money. I'm afraid I
don't understand the moral dimension to purchasing web hosting. Maybe I'm
missing something.

Out of curiosity, is the OEM who made our hardware a coop?
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Philip Neustrom <philipn at gmail.com> wrote:

> > There is also the philosophical angle to consider, whether a co-op
> > should move down one tier closer to retail and feed the for-profit
> > world. From running all VPSes, it's only one more step to mass
> > purchasing a web hosting package from a commercial provider with a group
> > discount, and so outsourcing tech support and software configuration. It
> > would be more in keeping with the cooperative approach to move UP a
> > level and provide its own rackspace. This is not exactly trivial though.
>
> Yeah, this is the point I was trying to make about ownership of
> infrastructure.
>
> -philip
>
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> > Adam Chlipala wrote:
> >> This discussion seems to have sputtered out.  Personally, I'm thinking
> >> of 100% VPS hosting (probably spread among multiple providers to some
> >> extent) as the best option for HCoop going forward.  Rob Gubler
> >> mentioned some file system/IO failures he's experienced with
> >> virtualization.  Shaun Empie said he doesn't think moving to 100% VPS is
> >> a good idea, but he didn't give any reasons, and he hasn't responded yet
> >> to a query about what they are.  Nathan Kennedy has been saying for a
> >> while that we should own our own servers.  Besides that, I think we've
> >> only seen positive opinions about the VPS option.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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