Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:52:24 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Jastonephd@aol.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD Message-ID: <3F4F84C8.4020303@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <120.24ba178e.2c80ccd2@aol.com> References: <120.24ba178e.2c80ccd2@aol.com>
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Jastonephd@aol.com wrote: > Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still charging us $6,000 > per annum for hosting? $500 per month for rack space, power, a leased Intel box with, say 10 Mbs burstable traffic, nightly backups, and such? Most of these are fixed costs which don't have much to do with which operating system is being used. FreeBSD is going to be significantly less time-consuming to administer than, say, Windows. > What is the viability of this server? You haven't told us what you're doing. I've gotten the impression that FreeBSD isn't particularly viable as a voicemail solution, but it's pretty good at many other things, particularly traditional Unix server stuff. > With the CA economy in dire straits, how secure is your future? An odd question for someone living in NY. Anyway, FreeBSD is an open-source project and the people working on FreeBSD are pretty thoroughly distributed around the world. The local economy isn't especially relevant to the success of the FreeBSD project. -- -Chuck
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