[Theforum] evolt.org revamp comment period open

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sat Feb 1 19:18:32 CST 2003


On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, .jeff wrote:

> rough estimate based on my knowledge of hosting costs though would be
> anywhere from $30ish/month to maybe $100ish/month.

Sources? A box dedicated to us, or shared? And if shared, shared how?

A point of comparison:
http://www.rackshack.net/english/all.asp

What deouk (and css-d plus a couple of low-traffic personal sites)
is on:
http://www.rackshack.net/english/cobalt.asp (the 256MB RAM version)

> again, my estimates could be way off if the bandwidth used specifically
> by weo is off.

Waiting on the breakdown by protocol. And somewhere (Dean/William - help
me?)  there's the weo & beo log analyses.

> hosting where we just put the code and db on someone else's hardware is
> certainly far more flexible than trying to ask around for someone with
> floorspace for a box

Yep. Cheaper too. Which is actually the key point.

Cheers
Martin

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