From: Gilad Ben-Yossef (gilad_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Fri 21 May 2004 - 15:07:47 IDT
Oron Peled wrote:
> On Thursday 20 May 2004 12:22, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>
>>Dedicatde Server: - I get a full server which I supply myself, manages
>>myself with full access to hardware resources, including backups.
>>Provider supplies connectivity, UPS, IPs and rack space. Price point: 100$.
>>Single user on one server.
>
>
> If all else fails, how about spliting the cost of a dedicated server among,
> say, 4-5 people that run their VPS on it? It should be roughly equivalent
> to what you look for, with the disatvantage that physical server management
> isn't done by the ISP.
>
> Let's augment this... the one who manage the physical server, gets his
> share for free :-) This can be round robin for a specified term, of course.
>
> Just my ~20$
>
I am right now a part of Fiasco, which does something very similar minus
the VPS part. That is, we sinmply share one server and manage it as a co-op.
This solution has worked great for me for several years now. It stopped
being efficient, however, when I started relying on Fiasco resources
(such as email) for conducting business and my response to Fiasco
downtime or configuration problems have gone from: "oh well..." to "Oh
Shit"...
It is very possible that a VPS arrangement can mitigate some of the
issues involved, but from experience it requires very strictly defined
conditions.
If I can't find somewhen to rent a VPS from I prefer to buy the server
and rent the connectivity myself and sell VPS hosts to other people to
cover some of the costs instead of a co-op solution which works very
well for non critical stuff but becomes unmanagble over a certain
complexity of setup.
If anyone is interested, drop me a *private* email, please.
Gilad
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