On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Florian Effenberger <flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2013-01-29 18:25: > > >> We looked into some offers, and it seems e.g. Hetzner's EX4 is >> economical in terms of spec/price ratio >> >> http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4 >> >> , and goes for 49.00 € / month including VAT. > > > [..] > > >> In total, the request would be, for 2013, a budget of >> >> ** 8.000,00 € ** >> >> for this setup (plan is to start with one EX4 and then ramp it up, >> thus we don't incur the full cost in the first months). > > > Is a Gigabit connection required for the machines? I doubt, but wanted to > clarify, since that would add 39 € per month per machine.
No > > Plus, dues the above sum take into account the fee of a Windows Server > license for those machines? Since we cannot bootstrap this on our own (i.e. > cannot install a separatedly bought Windows license), and virtualization is > not desired, we need to take Hetzner's offer here, which costs 15 € per > month for web edition and 25 € per month for standard edition. Then we need to find another provider. Norbert
