From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 29 09:52:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86B816A4BF for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out004.verizon.net (out004pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BDE43FCB for ; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:52:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.237.14.199]) by out004.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.33 201-253-122-126-133-20030313) with ESMTP id <20030829165228.HVWO25700.out004.verizon.net@mac.com>; Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:52:28 -0500 Message-ID: <3F4F84C8.4020303@mac.com> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 12:52:24 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jastonephd@aol.com References: <120.24ba178e.2c80ccd2@aol.com> In-Reply-To: <120.24ba178e.2c80ccd2@aol.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out004.verizon.net from [68.237.14.199] at Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:52:27 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:52:30 -0000 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