On Thu, Jun 28, 2012, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: [OT] Server share opportunity": > > Several friends renting a dedicated server on a server farm are looking > > for more participants to share the cost and resources. > A word to the wise - don't.
I'd like to offer different advice: If you plan to use full virtualization - where each person maintains his own operating system - then don't bother with such a "coop" - you'll probably get the same prices from a commercial host. If you are a highly-paid professional - don't bother with such a "coop" - your time is more valuable than your money. But, if you are the Shachar or Nadav of 1998 - both of us had such a coop at the time (a different one) - i.e., an aspiring computer professional but not yet highly paid or with family and kids (i.e., you still have some control over your time), and if a coop offers you the opportunity to maintain an operating system *together* with other people (not a separate OS for each person), then don't immediately say no. You might learn a lot from this opportunity, and get a lot of experience which isn't easy to get otherwise. > Recently, I broke up a partnership (two people sharing a server), and > went completely solo. At 10???/month > (http://giga-international.com/?show=vserver) I rather doubt you'll > manage to be much cheaper. I agree. > best of me. I would rather pay a couple of dollars extra a month, but > know that I am completely master of my own domain. This is true if you are capable of running the server completely by yourself, and have time to take care of *everything* yourself. Nadav. -- Nadav Har'El | Thursday, Jun 28 2012, 9 Tammuz 5772 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Cats aren't clean, they're just covered http://nadav.harel.org.il |with cat spit. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
