Recent content by jdm71488

Great. So EC2 would be my 1U poweredge and S3 would take the place of my MD1000 cluster, essentially. Also, I wouldn't have to worry about backups and fooling with tapes since Amazon "should" be backing everything up, correct? Let's say I go with the above, which I'm cool with, I think the...

Help on services like S3 and EC2 is much appreciated. I looked into them initially, as well as Mosso when speaking with a Rackspace engineer, but found it to be proprietaty and somewhat expensive. Mosso, however, doesn't charge for incoming data. Example pricing for Amazon S3 just to handle...

I'd love to not have to have my tape backup in the same location as the servers themselves. However, I don't have a better idea that is as cost-effective. There are no other colocation sites local. The TL2000 was going to offer encrypted backups, but the data itself was not going to be...

I am colocating. I'm sorry if I didn't mention that. However, GridSouth (http://www.gridsouth.com/) is local, too. They're right downtown.

The only unique benefit I can offer my customers is that I am local. My hardware is local and my services are local. I'm not really out to get any customer in the US/world. I want to setup a great foundation that local businesses can utilize and benefit from. With that, I will be able to...

After more research on hardware, I have decided to consider tape backup to allow me to keep tapes of my disk array in times of emergency since I live in FL. I figure, all racked tape drives are pretty expensive from Dell, so I might as well invest in the TL2000 automated library. An...

I have a friend who needs to store 2TB worth of data. It is all simple storage and will be somewhat of an archive that she can SFTP into at will. That is, of course, until I can get a more sophisticated Web-based interface or automated client-based solution in-place. I've looked at...

Thanks for the well-rounded thought out answers everyone. I had to get these two Web sites on board so I am going to pay monthly for a reseller account and sell portions of that account to myself. I will look further into this now that I have a good understanding of hardware and network...

how about microsoft sql server express manager?

In all honesty, I will have eventually around 20 Web sites that will have at max 3 users on each at a time. 512 up should be plenty. If I ever get into hosting Web sites that are dugg I will worry about bandwidth.

Ugh. :) I completely understand. I have nothing to base my needs on. I think 512 up will be fine. I currently have 512 up with a dynamic IP. I will setup the server and test it out before I move to the static IP. I will go with the following unless someone suggests otherwise. A 2.4+...

Dang. I don't know how to gauge the max transfer per day. I would guess if I had eventually 20 Web sites, maybe 50mb-100mb per day? Is that about right? We could take 2.0Mbs/sec and run that at max for 24 hours and have 2x60x60x12 = 86400Mbs/day. But I know I won't get the full 2 every...

I am getting a business data line from my local ISP. They have options of: 2.0Mbps 384Kbps 4.0Mbps 512Kbps 7.0Mbps 768Kbps 10.0Mbps 1.0Mbps 12.0Mbps 1.5Mbps 15.0Mbps 2.0Mbps Home Office Preferred 7.0Mbps 512Kbps Home...

I think it would be cost effective to start hosting only php templated Web sites. If you are running a dual 1.0, I should be able to survive with a single 1.8, correct? Of course your U320's help out a lot and I'm assuming you have a scsi card that brings out their full potential. I do want to...

Thank you all very much!