I suggest starting by reselling 1U spaces at a slight premium for the Debian support, and making an agreement with the ISP that you can convert your customers into a rack at some point. It doesn't hurt an ISP to offer it if they have the capability. I know a debian friendly ISP that I can pitch this to if there is a very experienced Debian sysadmin that would like to put up a website offering it at his colo. It's not hard to find the ISP's that use free software, and a phone call to the head of sales should not be hard to manage. If you have the numbers all worked out, I think you stand a decent chance of convincing one or more of them to post it as a product. It just doesn't cost them much to add something to the website and sell it in addition to other things, particularly if they are not supporting it. What kind of returns could you show an ISP? I would be glad to help with advice or phone calls, etc.
-Rich On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Russell Coker wrote: > The economy is not particularly good right now and many Debian developers > don't have as much work as they would like. > > Maybe this is a good business opportunity for a group of Debian developers in > a place such as the Netherlands, Germany, or the US. There is reasonable > profit in hiring hosting space by the rack and renting it out by the 1U. > > I'm sure that there are some companies who want Debian servers hosted and will > be prepared to pay a little extra to have Debian developers run them. > > -- Rich Bodo | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650-964-4678 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]