Re: hosting & money

[Antenore Gatta]

I like this proposal!!! Horizontal architecture :-) All the customers
where I work they use the same. Great! Yes, load balanced FE and
Postgres as BE clustered horizontally as well.

On 9/6/07, Davi Leal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > I propose we try to get a 'community' hosting.
> >
> > I don't think that will be simple to obtain support from them, they
> > have already problem with resources.
>
> > I just think that will be really hard to have support from other
> > project that they are already looking for new additional sponsor.
>
>
>
> > The best should be housing, in such situation we will manage our host...
> > But without a proper sponsor it's not applicable, too much expensive.
>
> Maybe we could use a scalable architecture.  Starting with one PC and one ADSL
> connection, (exactly what we have now), and grow up according to the needs:
>
>    1 PC   the first year
>    4 PCs  the second year
>   10 PCs  the thirst year
>
>
>   The original hardware (ca. 1998) that was used by Google
>
>       Sun Ultra II
>       dual 200MHz processors
>       256MB of RAM
>
>   Ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform
>
>
>
> You are right, the project will need money. It is already spending money from
> Neal and me.
>
> Let's wait to the final RMS decision, and then we can update the project
> roadmap.
>
> Davi
>