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[Bryan Blackwell]

A couple of points:

 - Unless you get a hosting plan with root access, no, Bryan can't do what he does.  So you're not getting it for $10 a month.
 - Other than the large staff (of questionable skill level), we already have those things.  In fact, I'd put what you can actually recover from my backups up against most of the hosting plans.  Ever ask your provider for one file?  The plan that will get you that is again, not $10 a month.

I do IT for a living, I'm quite familiar with requirements and cost analysis.  You may decide you don't need these things, so a better question is what does CORSA need?  How much does *that* cost?

BTW, if any of the projects in the pipeline come to fruition, we'll need a fair amount of storage.  I'd round it off to 100 GB, just to not have to worry about it.

--Bryan

On Mar 10, 2010, at 5:56 AM, Tim Verthein wrote:

> ALSO, I'm sure Bryan is doing a wonderful job, things work nicely and I have no beef with him, or with him getting paid to do the work.  BUT the financials make it appear that just the simple cost of HOSTING is costing $900 a year when it could be costing much less. Bryan can still do what he does, we just put the physical data on a server at a company that charges far less.  It seems there's some confusion between hosting, administering, and building a web site.   If Bryan is hosting this all on his own server, going with a world wide hosting service with a large staff, and 24-7 monitoring, built in backups, etc.. etc... would be far better than a one man operation, and cost less. Bryan can still be what he is, and do what he does.