RE: Hosting allowances economies of scale

I could put our ISP's whole e-mail operations with a service like
that...only thing I would need is LDAP and RADIUS support, and I could front
end that with the backend being their MySQL server.

I'm now struggling to justify spending $50K on new servers and the like.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jon Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:35 AM
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Subject: Re: Hosting allowances economies of scale

On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 [email protected] wrote:

> As I'm sure most people are aware, as has been the case for some time,
many
> large hosting companies, including now NetSol, are giving gargantuan
> allowances for disk space, bandwidth, DNS services and mailboxes for
paltry
> sums.  It's gotten obscene as of late.   See:
>
> https://www.networksolutions.com/web-hosting/package-comparison.jsp

Wow.  Forget the Advanced package.  Look at the Pro one.  Unlimited disk
space.  Unlimited monthly data xfer.  Unlimited mailboxes, all for
$35/month?!?  That's nuts.

I'm actually on hold with them now trying to get clarification on the
"E-mailbox Storage" limit of 500MB.  Is that per mailbox or aggregate?  If
it's per mailbox, we could buy a Pro web hosting account and host all our
customer email there.

> For my part, I've not seen anything remotely resembling these economies in
> terms of my costs.  Am I a sucker for using 10k and 15k RPM SCSI/SAS RAID
> level 1 disk subsystems?  They don't even make SAS drives with more than
> 300MB, and they're not cheap.  Colo fees are going up, not down and even
> bandwidth pricing at the colos haven't gone down significantly.

300GB I think you meant.  But anyway, yeah, I'd say you're blowing money
if you're using 15k RPM SCSI/SAS drives.  SATA/SATA-II is sufficient for
most thigns and way cheaper.

I'm still on hold (7 minutes and counting).

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