Hi, Thorsten Behrens wrote on 2013-01-29 18:25:
We looked into some offers, and it seems e.g. Hetzner's EX4 is economical in terms of spec/price ratio http://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex4 , and goes for 49.00 € / month including VAT.
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In total, the request would be, for 2013, a budget of ** 8.000,00 € ** for this setup (plan is to start with one EX4 and then ramp it up, thus we don't incur the full cost in the first months).
Is a Gigabit connection required for the machines? I doubt, but wanted to clarify, since that would add 39 € per month per machine.
Plus, dues the above sum take into account the fee of a Windows Server license for those machines? Since we cannot bootstrap this on our own (i.e. cannot install a separatedly bought Windows license), and virtualization is not desired, we need to take Hetzner's offer here, which costs 15 € per month for web edition and 25 € per month for standard edition.
Florian
