Users - Hosting Requirements

[cjhowe]

I would think for most Small to Medium sized business
running a service every 15 minutes to an hour to
update zoneedit.com or another dynamic dns would be
sufficient.  I haven't taken notice to how often my ip
lease expires with cable or dsl, it might be once a
month at the most.

In regards to support, there are, for the time being
anyway, only the people who frequent this list.  And
almost all of them are finding it more profitable,
again for the time being, to be developing as opposed
to maintaining.  So, an SLA doesn't seem to hold too
much value.

There are a number of monitoring tools available
(especially for Linux distros) that can notify you by
any number of ways when something seems a bit off.

Thanks for the reply, keep 'em coming.

===============David Kunkel wrote:
It seems to me the biggest issues are:

Reliable Bandwidth
Reliable Power
Reliable Security
Monitoring and Support
Static IP

Many broadband users will have trouble getting a truly
Static IP,
although it doesn't sound like this will be an issue
for you.

It probably would pay to try to host the box yourself
for a while,
especially while you are getting everything started.
You can always move
at some point in the future after it is setup and
running smoothly.



On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:16 -0800, Chris Howe wrote:
> With the better ISP offerings (Verizon FIOS 2 and 5
> MBit Upload, barring any server restrictions), does
> the small to medium size business who isn't strictly
> an ebusiness have a reasonable option of hosting
their
> deployment from their residence?  Given the
following
> "average SMB" spare parts lying around, what are the
> advantages to still using data centers, etc?  Also,
at

> what point (how many average ofbiz page views) does
> that upload capacity begin to noticably degrade
> noticable the end user experience?
>
> 1.5 GHZ processor computer
> 1 GB RAM
> 40 GB HD
> DVD Burner for Backups
> Windows XP or a Easy Linux Distro
>
> The obvious advantages are:
> Redundant Power Supply
> Redundant Internet connections
> physically secure hardware (flood, fire, etc as well
> as from disgruntaled employees)
>
> what else?
>  
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[BJ Freeman]

Most DSL and Cable have a business Class.
they provide single or blocks of IP's
it usually runs about $100 per month.

DSL is 1.5mb
CAble boasts 3gb or better. I belive as more usage happens this will
degrade.
I have clients get a UPS. radio shack has one for about $70.00.
I also put them behind a router for the personal workstations.


Chris Howe sent the following on 1/5/06 9:58 PM:

> I would think for most Small to Medium sized business
> running a service every 15 minutes to an hour to
> update zoneedit.com or another dynamic dns would be
> sufficient.  I haven't taken notice to how often my ip
> lease expires with cable or dsl, it might be once a
> month at the most.
>
> In regards to support, there are, for the time being
> anyway, only the people who frequent this list.  And
> almost all of them are finding it more profitable,
> again for the time being, to be developing as opposed
> to maintaining.  So, an SLA doesn't seem to hold too
> much value.
>
> There are a number of monitoring tools available
> (especially for Linux distros) that can notify you by
> any number of ways when something seems a bit off.
>
> Thanks for the reply, keep 'em coming.
>
> ===============David Kunkel wrote:
> It seems to me the biggest issues are:
>
> Reliable Bandwidth
> Reliable Power
> Reliable Security
> Monitoring and Support
> Static IP
>
> Many broadband users will have trouble getting a truly
> Static IP,
> although it doesn't sound like this will be an issue
> for you.
>
> It probably would pay to try to host the box yourself
> for a while,
> especially while you are getting everything started.
> You can always move
> at some point in the future after it is setup and
> running smoothly.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:16 -0800, Chris Howe wrote:
>
>>With the better ISP offerings (Verizon FIOS 2 and 5
>>MBit Upload, barring any server restrictions), does
>>the small to medium size business who isn't strictly
>>an ebusiness have a reasonable option of hosting
>
> their
>
>>deployment from their residence?  Given the
>
> following
>
>>"average SMB" spare parts lying around, what are the
>>advantages to still using data centers, etc?  Also,
>
> at
>
>>what point (how many average ofbiz page views) does
>>that upload capacity begin to noticably degrade
>>noticable the end user experience?
>>
>>1.5 GHZ processor computer
>>1 GB RAM
>>40 GB HD
>>DVD Burner for Backups
>>Windows XP or a Easy Linux Distro
>>
>>The obvious advantages are:
>>Redundant Power Supply
>>Redundant Internet connections
>>physically secure hardware (flood, fire, etc as well
>>as from disgruntaled employees)
>>
>>what else?
>>
>>_______________________________________________
>>Users mailing list
>>Users at lists.ofbiz.org
>>http://lists.ofbiz.org/mailman/listinfo/users

 
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