[Babase] Hosting v.s. buying

Karl O. Pinc babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:30:33 +0000


Hi,

I've looked into it a bit, and forgot to mention
what I found in our last phone call.

Before we'd go live we'd need a dedicated hardware server.
These are $136/month.
http://www.rimuhosting.com/order/startorder.jsp#karaka
We might want to pay a bit more to get more RAM.

The conversion just puts too much of a beating on the
computer to be able to have anybody sharing with us.

However, once we go live I'm sure we can get away
with a dedicated server that's pure software.
(Virtualization, it's the new hot thing.  IBM is
making lots of bucks on virtualization these days.)
We get the total control of having our own box
but the lower cost of sharing the underlying hardware.
(Too bad Hunter's not doing this.  It'd be the
perfect solution for us.  Susan, could you
mention "user mode Linux" to Hunter and see if
he just happens to jump up and down with desire
to do this?)

For our own software server, we'd pay between $40
and $65/month.
http://www.rimuhosting.com/order/startorder.jsp#tawa

The committments are month-by-month, unless you want
to pay for a year in which case you get one month
free.

It will be nice to have (even the lesser) of Hunter's
spec-ed out boxes to run the conversion.  After that
I think it'd be quite a lot more than we need.
I do have plans for recording all the changes ever
made to the data in the database, but that will run at night
and we don't really care if it takes hours.

Decisions, decisions.

How does Hunter feel about out-sourceing the hosting?

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein