Long time back, i proposed a system, but that time it was shot down because we were small. But as we grow we will have to implement it here it goes Lets say that we pay 150$/month for the BW and misc charges to the pipe owners apart from the server costs which we own Lets say the cost of the server is 500$/year(long term estimate) no lets say we have 1000GB BW usage. Use use 200GB/month we pay .15$/GB of bandwidth 800*0.15 = cost borne by members equally rest of the 200GB each member will pay as much has he uses
Now lets come to cost of the disk usage Lets say we have 160GB HDD. Cost is 50$/160 per GB for one month(it could be anything, costs here are immaterial) Now lets say 60GB is unused. All members pay an equal share for that i.e (50/160)*60 for the used HDD, each member pays his/her own share This kind of system will not create hierarcies. Everybody still has one vote Even the members who use 100MB disk and 100MB BW. Until our resourse utilizaition is close to 70-805 all members will pay approx similar, only when utilization goes up, the cost per member will get proportional to usage. Till then it will remain what it is not. As the unused part gets shared equally and its the unused part which is being the major chunk of billing. So fellas What do you think I know i have thrown some random numbers We really need to sit down and think things like lets say life of 160GB storage is 2 years, and how much will it cost for replacement etc., etc., This system will enable us to take really heavy users also, and the small users wont feel that they are paying for somebody else. thanks Tanveer _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
