[Board] Invite from our web host to Guinea Pig

[john guest]

FWIW, I think Ron has a good opportunity here, and we should take
advantage of this.

So, what thinks the board?  Bueller?  Anyone?  :-)

--John

On 6/5/07, Ron Blanchett <rrcb21 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Board, I need a decision on this ASAP.
> I would hate for us to miss this opportunity.
> And it is the best deal I have seen for this level of hosting anywhere on
> the net.
>
> -Ron
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ron Blanchett
> To: board at penguicon.org
> Sent: Monday, June 4, 2007 9:33:37 PM
> Subject: [Board] Invite from our web host to Guinea Pig
>
>
> All Board Folk,
>
> During the last few days I have been in discussion with our web host about
> an exciting new hosting platform that they are preparing.
> This discussion came about after I requested some changes to our current
> hosting environment, further discussion about those changes is not relevant
> to this email though.
>
> Our current web host has extended an invite to us to guinea pig there new
> Virtual Hosting environment (Xen Based). This environment will give us
> greater control over our own hosting environment (root access) and will
> allow us to make changes to said environment in a faster manner. Currently
> to make major changes to our hosting environment I have to get our web host
> involved, this will be a thing of the past with the new environment.
>
> The reason for this email is that our web host is going to be phasing out
> the hosting platform that we are currently on in the next one - two months.
> After they phase out our current environment they are going to give all of
> there customers that are on the same platform three options. Option one will
> be to move to their Plesk hosting environment, this environment does not
> suit our hosting needs as it does not contain some of the software that we
> require to run our hosting. Option two will be to move to their Virtual
> Server environment, the one that they are willing to let us guinea pig.
> Option three will be to find a different web host.
>
> Our web host has given me the rough specifications for the Virtual Hosting
> environment and what they are offering at the different tiers of this new
> service.
>
> Xen Hosting Packages:
> Basic = 256 MB RAM, 10GB disk space, 5 Databases = $40
> Intermediate = 512 MB RAM, 20GB disk space, 10 Databases = $75
> Advanced = 1024 MB RAM, 40 GB disk space, 20 Databases = $100
> Each comes with it's own IP address
> Optionally available (no charge option) is a squid caching server
> Free Bandwidth each month will be at least what we are getting now, they
> don't have bandwidth quotas worked out yet though.
> They are also offering us a 15% discount if we pay for a hole year at once.
> At the Basic level that would get us in at what works out to be $34 a month,
> $1 less than we are paying now.
>
> For comparison we are currently getting  128MB RAM, 3GB disk space, 2
> databases, and 20GB data transfer for $35/month. We do exceed the 20GB data
> transfer/month but we have never been billed for out overages so far.
>
>
> What I would like to ask is for the Board to Vote on two things.
> 1) Approval to take the Guinea Pig offer which comes at no extra cost to us
> and lasts until one month after our web host announces End of Life of the
> hosting platform we are currently on.
> 2) Approval to move us to this platform after the Guinea Pig period is over.
>
> I would like to get approval for the first ASAP so we can use this system as
> much as possible before our web host forces us off of our current platform.
> Approval for the other item can wait a little bit while we look around to
> see if there is a better deal out in the world, I have yet to find or
> receive one.
>
> -Ron
> Web Dude.
>
>
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