[Babase] Hosting v.s. buying
Susan Alberts
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:45:33 -0500
OK thanks, this was helpful. We will go with a purchase.
Susan
>On 01/31/2005 01:31:19 PM, Susan Alberts wrote:
>>Thanks for the info on hosting vs buying (Susan and Hunter, see
>>info below). I didn't get a chance to talk to Hunter about this yet
>>but did talk to Susan Gerbeth Jones, head of computer team here.
>>Here are some thoughts.
>>
>>First, there is no model here in Bio for how this would work, and
>>for this reason the computer team is somewhat reluctant to go this
>>route at the moment.
>
>I imagine that they are reluctant because they would be called in
>to pick up the pieces should I get hit by a beer truck. Aside from
>that they'd be pretty much out of the picture were babase to
>pay the hosting company directly. Otherwise I image that Hunter would
>be the guy with root access and he would grant access to everybody
>else, just like he does now with albertslab.biology.duke.edu. The
>big differences for Hunter would be that he would not be responsible
>for fixing hardware problems or restoring the box if it breaks,
>but he would be responsible for maintaining a separate set of
>usernames unless he can figure out some way to
>hook into Duke's usernames.
>
>There's also Hunter's marvelous daily backup system, but I think we can
>forgo that as I plan for a permanent change log in a revision
>control system. (Database too.)
>
>I don't think it makes sense to go to a hosted hardware server, just
>a hosted software server. Until we're running 'live' we won't know
>just how much oomph we need and the software servers are right around
>what I estimate we'll need. Whereas Hunter's box is much more than
>we'll need but would be great to have to run the conversion
>and the conversion tests. It'd be nice to be able to use Hunter's
>spec-ed out box and then sell it back to Duke if we don't want it
>later, which is kind of what we'd be doing if we hosted a
>hardware server for a while and then abandoned it. But the
>hosted hardware servers don't have as much oomph as "Hunter's box"
>either.
>
>I think the thing to do is go with what Duke recommends. They are
>your "safety belt".
>
>Karl <kop@meme.com>
>Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
> -- Robert A. Heinlein
>
>
>
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