David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:32:25AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > [...] My current pool seem pretty good and also, bytemark's > > virtual machines are cheap enough (just over 100 quid a year) > > IIRC their cheapest is 150 a year, but that's not got much memory at > all. I certainly wouldn't want to run an RDBMS plus mod_perl in that,
Well spotted. It's gone up recently: http://www.bytemark.co.uk/page/Live/hosting/virtualmachine/ I wouldn't want to run mod_perl at all, but that's a different debate. I think one of our members has been using www.contextshift.co.uk which has a bigger spread of capacities, but I've not read their opinions recently enough to know how good it is. [...] > good luck explaining that to the sort of low-end user who doesn't have > his own in-house IT staff. That sort of ongoing maintenance payment on > top of renting the machine is hard for them to justify because they > can't see any immediate benefit. If they're very low-end, I'd say they'll probably be happy sharing hosting with some of our other customers. Above that, I've not had much trouble justifying ongoing contracts but that may be because:- 1. our customers are smarter than average; 2. we bill them on a three-month moving average; and/or 3. the cooperative difference. Do many of the other webmasters here have ongoing contracts? Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef) Webmaster for hire, statistician and online shop builder for a small worker cooperative http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ http://mjr.towers.org.uk/ (Notice http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html) tel:+44-844-4437-237 _______________________________________________ BristolBathPM mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm
