Mike, I'm not a slicehost reseller if that's what you're asking. If
that's not what you're asking but instead are asking in general about
resellers then I'd be happy to chat offline about what I can provide for
support, service, and pricing based on what you need.
In case it matters to folks as useful background I've been using Linux
since 1994, the very early days. Jon 'Maddog' Hall used to be both a
neighbor and coworker. I worked in Digital's Unix engineering group for
8 years prior to making the switch to Linux. So I've been around and
know a thing or two about Linux.
Dan
Mike Raley wrote:
I'm getting the feeling that the underlying issues around "buy local" are still
at work, but due to the unique nature of hosting, in a different way. To me at least buy
local means support the local economy, and lower externalized and hidden costs.
If you have a remote (say california, texas, etc) colo it's not local, but they
have economy of scale, lower externalized costs than local (say being close to
power, major peering points, etc), and if you go through a local reseller, you
are keeping at least some of your dollars local, plus, it keeps the massive
power generation (and it's associated negatives) centralized.
I've take a few interesting bits from this discussion (some of which I already
knew)
1) localized hosting is a dead end business idea unless you have a unique value
added proposition, or major number of customers! (already knew)
2) There is little to no interest in local hosting in the area. Economies of
scale, and the benefits they bring are just too tantalizing (guessed, but had
no clear data)
3) Using something like slice host through a resller, works fairly well as a
hybrid between buy local and getting the best bang for your buck!
So, who are the local resllers? :)
Mike
--- On Sun, 3/22/09, Rene Churchill <r...@wherezit.com> wrote:
From: Rene Churchill <r...@wherezit.com>
Subject: Re: Vermont Hosting Providers
To: VAGUE@LIST.UVM.EDU
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 5:07 PM
While physical location of the hosting is of little
relevance to
the hosting customers, it is important to the hosting
services
themselves. Microsoft and Google are both buying land to
build
data centers in the Columbia River valley up near Portland
because
of the availability of cheap, dependable hydro power.
Access to cheap power is another thing that improves with
scale
and is a barrier to local/co-op hosting businesses.
Rene
Dan Coutu wrote:
To make Mike's idea work you'd need to secure
hundreds of customers (or more) and have a significant sized
facility with generator backup, redundant high bandwidth
connections, and a crew of at least 9 operations personnel
to provide round the clock monitoring and support.
That's a very significant investment. I don't know
if it could be made to work since, as Mike points out, there
is strong competition from non-local providers and to a
large extent the physical location of hosting servers is
becoming less relevant as time goes on.
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