[NCUC E-team] Hosting the NCUC E-Platform

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Feb 28 09:55, Brenden Kuerbis (bkuerbis at internetgovernance.org) wrote:

> I'm looking at this now, and it appears you either purchase share(s) at
> $16/per share/per month, with one share containing *processor power *(one
> core for 1 to 4 shares, 2 cores for 5 to 8 shares...), RAM (512 dedicated
> MB), disk quota (12GB), and bandwidth quota (10Mbps),
> 
> OR
> 
> you individually configure the server to desired levels, which would be
> approximately $400.

The $400 figure is based on two shares plus 26GB disk space,
adding to to the desired 50GB, at yearly rate.

> Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems to me that we should just
> purchase e.g., 2 shares on a monthly basis and ramp up as needed?

Shares cost $16/month or $168/year, similar ratio for extra disk
space, so it saves some money upfront. We could start with one share
but since we'd almost certainly need more anyway, the question is
whether fine-tuning on that range is worth the time it takes,
especially in the purchasing process. Two shares plus the extra
disk space is of course not exact but an educated guess of what
might be enough for a year, and close enough that possible savings
from going below wouldn't be worth the trouble.
(There's discussion about this on the archives, probably on
the EC or finance team lists.)

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Tapani Tarvainen