[AktiviX] Colo server for AktiviX?

[cc at riseup.net]

Hi

I think that having a dedicated AktiviX server on a decent
connection would be a very good thing (the existing
hosting arangements are long terms ones) -- the following
is a great offer, shall we take it up? Does anyone have
any dosh to put towards getting a 1U box?

Chris

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> (apologies for the english)
>
> dear fellow autonomous revolutionary tech collectives,
>
> We are starting up a colocation collective in Seattle.
> We plan on starting by leasing a full rack from a
> commercial colocation provider in early July. Our total
> costs will be US$500 per rack (40U 20Amps) plus
> US$110/mbps (billed 95th percentile). The facility is
> pretty nice, redundant power and bandwidth, burstable to
> some crazy high speed, etc.
>
> We still have space left, and we need people to fill
> that space. Our preference is to work with other radical
> tech groups.
>
> The first rack will probably have a bunch of riseup.net
> servers, a resist.ca server, the indymedia list server,
> and several servers from other local projects.
>
> We estimate the costs to be about US$50 for a typical
> box. If some boxes were drawing a ton of bandwidth, we
> would find some way to account for the addition costs.
>
> The actual costs (with 75% full rack) will probably be
> around US$33 per box plus US$1.76 per Kilobyte/second
> monthly traffic average. That may be totally off: i am
> making up those numbers based on the rule of thumb that
> i heard that 95th percentile bandwidth for the month
> often is around double your traffic average for the
> month. It might be a lot lower when we throw a bunch of
> boxes together, and it would be lower if we filled the
> rack to capacity.
>
> We have yet to decide how we want to split the costs, it
> may be that we all just pay a fixed amount and maybe cap
> the bandwidth so that there are no surprises. riseup.net
> will probably loan to the colo collective the money it
> needs to become self sufficient, including startup
> costs.
>
> Anyway, if you are interested, let us know soon! We want
> to move quickly.
>
> You can get pretty good deals on ebay for a proliant
> server with full remote administration (remote reboot,
> remote bios, remote console). For those collectives
> outside the US, it might be cheaper to buy a used box on
> ebay and have it shipped directly to seattle. server
> size will not matter so much: the power is more of a
> limitation than the space (although the boxes do need to
> be rack mountable).
>
> riseup.net is currently converting many boxes over to
> rackmounts, so if you have any advice, or if you want
> any advice, let us know.
>
> in solidarity,
> -elijah

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