[Box-Admins] re: Squeak's hosting provider(s), bills

[Ken Causey]

OK, I'm certainly glad we have a cushion and time to think.

What I'm really interested in now is opinions on my idea to distribute
things among virtual private servers among say 2-3 companies, probably
on multiple continents (US and Europe probably).

What sort of budget on monthly server costs does everyone think is
reasonable?

Would it be better to buy hardware and find people willing to host it
for us at little or minimal cost?  (higher upfront costs with lower
recurring costs)  Jecel has contacted Merik Voswinkel of Morphle about
this and I understand Merik has some interest although I know little
detail.

Ken

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:37 -0800, Craig Latta wrote:
> > Any response?  My situation is rather fluid right now (in terms of how
>  > much time I have available) but I think this is a topic worth
>  > discussion and planning.  The sooner we start, and all that jazz...
> 
>       Yes, sorry, busy busy. :)
> 
>       It turns out that Marcus Denker has volunteered to deal with 
> Hetzner for the next year, and pass the bills on to us (see below). So 
> this buys us some time (always a dangerous thing ;) to discuss what we 
> "really" want to do in the long term.
> 
>       Personally, I'd still prefer to get stuff moved to an 
> English-speaking company, where we can respond faster to problems. I'd 
> like to start by mirroring the Squeak site at one of my idle domains on 
> 1and1.com's machines. I'll bug Janko for help, I'm sure.
> 
> 
>       thanks again,
> 
> -C
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Squeak.org server
> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:15:47 +0100
> From: Rita Freudenberg <rita at isg.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
> To: craig at netjam.org
> 
> Hi Craig,
> 
> we just had a discussion about the future of the squeak.org-server,
> based on your mail conversation with Ken. Marcus Denker finally agreed
> to take on the responsibility further on for the communication with
> Hetzner, at least for the next 12 months. And we, Squeak Germany, will
> bill you for the server costs, but surely not every month, but once or
> twice a year. Works that ok for you?
> 
> Rita
> 
> 
> [I answered yes and thanks]
> 
> --
> Craig Latta
> www.netjam.org
> 
> 
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