As one option...
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> So second
thing we need to work out what our next stage of evolution
> is (the 8GB Linode for $200/mo more? [2] or multiple servers?
Not really knowledgeable in this area but
200/month does seem a tad
expensive, Have you looked elsewhere apart from linnode?
Trent looked into the question on behalf of the RationalWiki
Foundation (501(c)3 and all) and decent hosting was on that order. And
Linode have been very good. (We were with a cheap host a while ago and
they were so great that the hosting moved to Trent's house over his
DSL for a time.) The joys of finding funding will doubtless keep the
question near the top of his mind, however.
I assume you're on the Linode 4 GB for about $1,900 / yr?
A reserved high-usage Amazon EC2 Large node is going to run $780 / yr
commitment charge and about $600/yr for hourly usage fees, at 7.5 GB
RAM, 840 GB local storage, etc. And scaling out some more nodes there
is easier and faster. It's also $0.12 / GB for data transfer out, so
if you're doing more than $500 / $0.12/gb = 4,000 GB / year or more
traffic you would be paying ultimately more, but I somehow doubt that.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance
Alternately - actual hosting space is around $50/U/month for
noncommercial friend rates in the SF Bay Area (and $100/U for anyone);
Go to somewhere like server monkey and get a lightly used Dell or HP
or IBM rackmount, load up on RAM, install in datacenter, zoom. You
now own the hardware problem that way, though...
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-george william herbert
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