On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Agreed. What did the capacity limit catch them by surprise? Couldn't they > see they were approaching capacity, and start the buildout sooner? >
My guess would be that they are a smaller company and they choose not to have any capital outlays for new hardware until they have a demand in place. It would be nice if they predicted this, but they might be in a place where they don't want to / can't finance the business with loans, and so it's much safer and conservative to only buy hardware when they have business booked (not to mention easier to get financing when they can show an increasing number of users to pay back the bank). This could be especially true when they hit significant incremental charges when they expend to a new rack, new data center, etc. and need to purchase more expensive items in addition to servers (routers, switches, floor space, more bandwidth, etc.). My favorite provider is slicehost, http://www.slicehost.com/. They have much the same mentality, but have grown significantly and I don't think people have to wait in line anymore. They used to have a setup where they ordered hardware every (or every other) Tuesday or so and new people had to wait a few days to be provisioned if demand was greater than their current hardware. They are a bit more expensive ($20/month), but certainly don't oversell their stuff and performance has been great even at the $20 price point. I have not tried prgmr.com, but if I were in your position (looking for some personal space), I'd certainly give them a try. Nick _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
