As one option... On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 4:37 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So second thing we need to work out what our next stage of evolution >>> is (the 8GB Linode for $200/mo more? [2] or multiple servers? > >> Not really knowledgeable in this area but 200/month does seem a tad >> expensive, Have you looked elsewhere apart from linnode? > > > Trent looked into the question on behalf of the RationalWiki > Foundation (501(c)3 and all) and decent hosting was on that order. And > Linode have been very good. (We were with a cheap host a while ago and > they were so great that the hosting moved to Trent's house over his > DSL for a time.) The joys of finding funding will doubtless keep the > question near the top of his mind, however.
I assume you're on the Linode 4 GB for about $1,900 / yr? A reserved high-usage Amazon EC2 Large node is going to run $780 / yr commitment charge and about $600/yr for hourly usage fees, at 7.5 GB RAM, 840 GB local storage, etc. And scaling out some more nodes there is easier and faster. It's also $0.12 / GB for data transfer out, so if you're doing more than $500 / $0.12/gb = 4,000 GB / year or more traffic you would be paying ultimately more, but I somehow doubt that. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#instance Alternately - actual hosting space is around $50/U/month for noncommercial friend rates in the SF Bay Area (and $100/U for anyone); Go to somewhere like server monkey and get a lightly used Dell or HP or IBM rackmount, load up on RAM, install in datacenter, zoom. You now own the hardware problem that way, though... -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
