Thanks for the clarification Erik.
Hello Paul, You may not get the best "shared" deal out there but it's much less headache than with a true co-op system anyways. Would you actually go out and sue the guy with only 1U server just because he bailed out? I guess you never filed in courts to know what the costs are to sue people for every single little thing out there. A co-op system like this would never have the money to come up with the paralegal fees even. So, you are not much more secured anyways with such a system; anyhow, by picking one person I meant just a rep to grab good prices like Erik said. For a co-op system once you calculate the administration cost, insurance cost for bail outs, etc...you are already loosing whatever you thought you might have saved in the first place. What I purposed was a separate contract btw the individual and co-lo provider for every single member so issues like what you mentioned never happen and still you get a better rate than going in individually. Again, just a thought. -Bruce > Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:34:23 -0400 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [biz] Idea about Shared Co-Location > > On Wed, 6 May 2009, Erik Turk wrote: > > > I think the co-op is one method of providing the desired service. Another > > way is for us to > > say to existing providers - hey, we have 40 people who want this type of > > service - what > > Then you are just 40 individuals. With your own bandwidth constrains, without > being > able to combine the traffic into a good deal with 95 percentile. If that was > a good > option, we'd all already be hosting our 1U server. > > > can you do for us, and then each of us makes an individual decision whether > > or not to > > enter a business relationship with that provider. My understanding is that > > Bruce was > > mentioning the latter as an option. > > Neither of the 40 people would likely be able to get 24/7 access, since > you're only a 1U > customer. No aggregate bandwidth to allow us to peak etc. etc. > > Paul > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > _________________________________________________________________ Find info faster and easier with Internet Explorer 8. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9655583
