[cfaussie] RE: [OT] ADSL Q

[Steve Onnis]

Title: Message

1. Expense  
   Too much?  
   Don't look at this as a dollar expense, although that does come into it.  You need to look at your time aswell.  Your time is money and your time is an expense.  You spend time sorting out server issues then you start to loose.
2. Power blackout  
   UPS?  Find me a UPS that lasts for more  than 20 minutes
3. ADSL server falls over  
   I assume you mean the company providing the ADSL? If so, can't a normal line fall over too? I had a 128Kbps frame-relay line and it was sometimes out for days.  
   When you look at a data center you looking at atleast 3 differnt trunks going into the data center.  I doubt very much that if you had a server in a data center that you would have an outage longer then a couple of minutes, max
4. Software requirements 
   ?  
   Ok.  Taking into account that your going to be running Linux and mySQL or some other free database, the only software that you would be looking at for your server would be coldfusion it self.  Now if your going to be providing hosting to multiple clients, you seriously need to look at getting Enterprise which is going to set you back $6,000.00 at least.
   
   Now although the other software is free, you better be a guru at running them cause support for linux product aint cheap.
   
   Then look at what your doing to use for FTP and such
   Mail server
   Antivirus
5. Hardware requirements 
   ? 
   Hardware.
   - Server
   - Firewalls
   - Backup devices
   - Spare bits like cables and NICs
   - Hard Drives
   - UPS (or petrol generator out the back)

Who or what is going to monitor the server?  The last thing you need (and it used to happen for me with the guys I used to work for) is that you find out the server is down cause you have all your clients calling you to ask whats going on.

 

Are you going to be sitting next to the server all day?  If not then you will need someway to remotely administer it aswell

 

 

As for the constructive criticism, I am just talking from experience.  Its just so much of a headache.  The only thing I would ever consider running from ADSL or any other ISP service is a mail server.  Its something thats not mission critical to be up 24/7.

 

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Taco Fleur
Sent: Monday, 7 July 2003 8:58 PM
To: CFAussie Mailing List
Subject: [cfaussie] RE: [OT] ADSL Q

Steve, I knew I could count on some of your constructive criticism (no offence intended)..

 

 

Couple reasons why

1. Expense  
   Too much? 
2. Power blackout  
   UPS? 
3. ADSL server falls over  
   I assume you mean the company providing the ADSL? If so, can't a normal line fall over too? I had a 128Kbps frame-relay line and it was sometimes out for days. 
4. Software requirements 
   ? 
5. Hardware requirements 
   ? 

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