Quoting andy at theasis.com (andy at theasis.com): > But did you ever say how many people you needed to commit to $50/month in > order to make that a viable option? No, I did not say how many people, because I did not know what it would cost for a S/390. Carl did some GREAT research on pricing on an S/390. Carl, can you share the results with the LUG? > Really, a colo without bandwidth limitions couldn't really do that low a > rate. Especially in a crowd (us) who's likely to use it if they have it. > There were vendors at Annual Linux Showcase last fall who were offering > something really cheap, like $25/month plus something per 1K/s avg > bandwidth. I'd bet that even with the S390 you'd have to charge for > differential usage, unless you can also shape/cap bandwidth per virtual > computer. You can track everything from context switches to memory utilization on a 390. So, there would probably have to some sort of caps on things. -- Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (952)943-8500 Key fingerprint = 02E0 2734 A1A1 DBA1 0E15 623D 0036 7327 93D9 7DA3 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010427/36f46115/attachment.pgp