Hello all,
Looking for a little fatherly (or motherly) advice.
Situation:
8 months out of college working at a non-profit, developing CF for a
year.
Webmaster managing and developing 8 (eight) domains, sole developer.
Currently being compensated at about $12,000 CDN / year no benefits.
Educated employer about market value and what their options were if I
died tomorrow.
(That being a starting salary of about $45k/year for someone straight
out of college or they could hire the only other guy in the 100Km
radius area that is at my developing level (or above) in CF for
$100/hr)
I also looked at public financial statement and deduced that the
average salary for full-time employment in this organization is about
$40K/yr (mostly biologists and administrators).
I made a reasonable request of $35K/yr plus standard benefits.
They're coming back with a one year contract offer of about $25K/yr no
benefits, no negotiation.
The group does good work and I'll always be a member, but this job is
beginning to cost me money.
I'm thinking I should request a two-weeks clause so that I can leave
with 2 weeks notice and inform them that I will be looking for
employment elsewhere. I'd like to know if this would be perceived as
ethical by employers out there. Or any other courses of action that
would be suitable and practical.
Also, what does it take to get a job with a firm that focuses on
CF/Web Development? I really want to grow and learn more.
Please accept my apologies if this sounds like whining, I'm just
running out of ways to deal with this.
Yours In Conservation,
Guy J. McDowell,
Webmaster
The Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (705) 748-6324 ext. 262
P.S.
Check out the ALL NEW www.InvadingSpecies.com site as well as the rest
of our lineup...
www.OFAH.org - The flagship site for the O.F.A.H.
www.AuctionForWildlife.com - Your chance to make your bid for
conservation.
www.EcoEd.org - an online adventure for kids in grades 1 through 8.
www.HuntingDog.org - Celebrating our Hunting Dog Heritage.
www.AHTV.com - Your online companion to the Angler and Hunter
Television show.
www.OHEP.net - Where to find out and learn about the Ontario Hunter
Education Program.
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Subject: CF-Community-List V1 #15
CF-Community-List Fri, 8 Dec 2000 Volume 1 :
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RE: Server for cf?
RE: Server for cf?
RE: Server for cf?
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Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:32:18 -0500
From: "Guy J. McDowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Server for cf?
Message-ID: <000501c0611b$49fe7cc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just wanted to send a quick thanks to all involved in this thread.
I've been wondering the same things as Al Musella as I plan on
starting up a developing/hosting business in the new year.
I found out more from that thread than 3 days of research. Gotta love
the CF community!
Yours In Conservation,
Guy J. McDowell,
Webmaster
The Ontario Federation of Anglers & Hunters
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: (705) 748-6324 ext. 262
P.S.
The ALL NEW www.InvadingSpecies.com site is now available. Ontario's
best site on invading species info and control.
www.OFAH.org - The flagship site for the O.F.A.H.
www.AuctionForWildlife.com - Your chance to make your bid for
conservation.
www.EcoEd.org - an online adventure for kids in grades 1 through 8.
www.HuntingDog.org - Celebrating our Hunting Dog Heritage.
www.AHTV.com - Your online companion to the Angler and Hunter
Television show.
www.OHEP.net - Where to find out and learn about the Ontario Hunter
Education Program.
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:30:12 -0600
From: "Jim Nitterauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Server for cf?
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For what its worth, here is what we use as far as servers and they
work
wonderfully, are reliable and manageable from a single workstation.
Servers: Intel ISP 2150 Server with Single or Dual Channel RAID
Controller,
RAID 5 with 4 IBM 10 KRPM 9 GB drives, Windows 2000 Server (Blows NT
4.0
away), 256 MB RAM (More for shared hosting servers or as needed -
handles up
to 1 GB RAM), Min. single Pentium III 750 MHz Processor (Handles up to
processors), CF4.51 Pro Service Pack 2
Server, hardware and software complete runs about $6500 total or about
$235
per month lease.
Co-location services with SQL connection is around $372.50 per month
for the
first server (each additional server only pays rack space - bandwidth
is
combined and billed only if it exceeds the base 20 Gb for the first
server)
All Web sites connect to SQL Server 7 residing on a separate server.
The other often overlooked source of slow performance is bad network
topology. All servers should be connected to an Ethernet Switch (not a
Hub)
and NICs configured to run Full Duplex if possible. There are other
steps
that can be taken to isolate traffic, etc such as a second NIC to
connect to
a separate switch connected to any database servers.
The Intel server platform is very open and can be configured with any
desired OS.
Jim Nitterauer
http://www.creativedata.net
-----Original Message-----
From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 12:17 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Server for cf?
Thanks for all of the tips.. I think I will go with the Clone...
I went through 3 Dell poweredge servers so far - and was never
really
happy with the service.. whenever I had problems, they would either
blame
Windows NT - telling me to just reformat the drive and reinstall
everything, or to run the diagnostics overnight. Both of which are
impractical on a live server. Also - the processors aren't very
upgradeable - the motherboard only supported the speeds that I
originally
ordered. To upgrade to a faster processor requires replacing the
motherboard - which was about as expensive as buying a new server
anyway.
They also required Dell versions of the processor, which was much more
expensive than any other source.
For my own office, I use a few of these desktop clones that a
local
computer store makes. Their service was fantastic - parts are
available
immediately - and they have been in business longer than Dell:)
I can specify any motherboard / chip set - so which should I ask
for?? My last computer came with the Tyan Tiger motherboards.
Thanks
Al
>Agreed - also if they are "proper" servers, they'll be using server
>m/boards, of which there are a limmited number of manufacturers
anyway, and
>an even smaller no of chipsets, so chances are a lot of the
componentary
>will be identical or similar...
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 10:56:32 -0000
From: "Philip Arnold - ASP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Server for cf?
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> FYI: Last company I worked for, we had 4 compaq servers, and we
never had
> any hardware problems at all with them - very quick, very stable...
We're very happy with our Compaq kit, currently running Compaq 5
servers,
just about to upgrade 4 of them...
I'd definitely recommend them as servers - although they have very
strange
rack mounts, you have to use the Compaq own ones to get them to fit
100%
Philip Arnold
Director
Certified ColdFusion Developer
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
"Websites for the real world"
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