Rick Faircloth wrote:
> Off the top of my head, I would calculate the costs as follows
> (where I can give a reasonable estimate):
> 
> A)  Windows Solution
>
>       - Windows Box:  $1000 (with RAID / hardware only including monitor)
>       - Windows Server 2003 Web Edition:  $300

You want to run CF on a box with 2 GB max?


>       - Additional Trimmings:  $0 (Already have network AV and hardware
> firewall)

Accounting doesn't work that way.


>       - Time for setup:  8 hours max
>       - Total Windows Solution:  $2600
>
> B)  Linux Solution
>
>       - Windows Box:  $1000 (with RAID / hardware only including monitor)
>       - Linux OS:  $0
>       - CF Standard:  $1300
>       - Apache:  $0
>       - MySQL:  $0
>       - Additional Trimmings: $0 (Same as above)
>       - Time for setup:  20 hours (estimate, could be more or less, but
> seems reasonable)

Why so much more then Windows? What is so hard about typing:
apt-get upgrade
apt-get install apache
apt-get install mysql
apt-get update


>       - Total Linux Solution:  $2300
>
> So:   - Windows Solution:  $2600 + 8 hours setup
>       - Linux Solution:  $2300 + 20 hours setup
> 
> Both time estimates on setup of every are probably high

I think they are both very low, unless you already have a considerable 
investment in automation of certain tasks. For instance hardware acceptance 
tests (memtest > 24 hours but unattended, pulling plugs on harddisks while the 
system is running to check if the alarm goes etc.) and backup configuration 
(including test of full backup / restore cycle) take me way longer then that. 
And the only reason things like  hardening the MS TCP/IP stack & configuring 
the Windows firewall and configuring the second, third etc. CF instane take me 
much less time is that I have done it so many times that I have the scripts 
ready for that (but then I have to count the time to create the scripts towards 
the task).

Jochem

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