Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2002 14:31:29 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: Would anyone be willing to host a second kernel.org site? |
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On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, Larry McVoy wrote: >> Anyone have any ideas of some organization who would be willing to >> host a second kernel.org server? Such an organization should expect >> around 25 Mbit/s sustained traffic, and up to 40-100 Mbit/s peak >> traffic (this one can be adjusted to fit the available resources.) > >We've priced this lately and I think the cheapest you are looking at is >around $6500/month for a 25Mbit connection. That's not a huge amount of >money but it's enough that it shows up on people's radar screens as a line >item, it's $80K/year, so there would have to be some justification.
Yep. I still laugh at those who say "bandwidth is free." They've obviously never bought anything from UUNet. At any rate, a full DS3 (45mbps) will run between 7k and 20k USD per _month_. Last time I checked, kernel.org didn't have the funds for 7k/year much less per month.
Server colocation is a far cheaper solution, but then they have the same problems they have now... limited access to the hardware when something goes wrong (and it always does.)
--Ricky
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