[HCoop-Discuss] Clinton's proposed colo quote request

[Richard Darst]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 07:04:31AM -0400, Adam Chlipala wrote:
> I'd like to comment on the material found here:
>     http://wiki.hcoop.net/ProspectiveHostsQuoteRequest2009
> 
> I prefer Clinton's "alternate draft" to the original.  The meat of it 
> seems good to me, though I think the first paragraph includes too much 
> irrelevant information.  The colo provider doesn't care that we're a 
> non-profit corporation or that we've become dissatisfied with another 
> provider.  I think these messages should focus on making clear what it 

When I was looking through the old quotes, at least one response from
a provider stated that they were offering us a special offer due to
our nonprofit status.

> Do we want to mention the desirability of KVM services?  With that and 
> other pieces of infrastructure (network switch, etc.) provided by the 
> colo company, I really think we could do just fine with only about 4U of 
> space, as long as we only use beefy servers.

Sure, we should see how much they can provide.  But if the price is
really low enough, 4U means we would not have that much room to
expand.

- Richard

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