On Feb 24, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Adam Chlipala wrote:
Aaron Hsu wrote:
I think another point that should be added regarding Quality of
Service is the actual service provided. HCoop hosting gives any given
member a degree of flexibility with their service that is (from
what I
can tell) completely unmatched for the price. Basically, as a
member I
am receiving support and development efforts from various
contributers, which means that I am not left maintaining my own
server
and Operating System. The only other service I find that comes close
to this VPS hosting. However, with the more affordable VPS's, I have
to do a large part of the maintenance on my own, and there is very
little help from anyone else. With this coop we are able to help each
other with services and solutions to problems; these are often
problems that would be either expensive or impossible to solve
given a
more traditional hosting company.
I'm not sure exactly how to change what I wrote, but I agree that it
would be useful to make it clear that "quality of service" should be
considered in light of the different services we provide compared to
"the competition."
You might just add a little part or addition somewhere stating that,
for the cost, you provide unmatched flexibility in configuration and
functionality.
1) Emphasize that the >1 pledges are voluntary?
My understanding of American English is such that "sliding scale"
implies "voluntary," but others should correct me if they don't see it
that way.
I would say that sliding scale could also mean that users are charged
on a scale based on usage amounts, almost like grading on a curve.
So, I think it would be better to use something like, "a voluntary
sliding scale."
2) Emphasize more here that, basically, you can get anything you
want for
the price. We should come up with a short and precise way to
describe
this type of service because the need to describe it straight-
to-the-point
has come up a number of times by now.
I think it's fine to describe it in terms that aren't especially
compact, since the article author will be taking pains to avoid
repetition in his compilation process, anyway, and will handle
paraphrasing for us.
This is true, but I don't remember seeing much in your answers that
clearly gave this information. When I signed up, the key selling
point for me was the flexibility of the service, and I don't think
you really inform the reader about this feature very clearly.
Are you saying here that I could arrange with HCoop to buy a disk
for me, which I would pay off, but it would be my disk, for my own
use?
If yes, this isn't clear.
No, the idea is that disk space usage will be billed based on market
rates, not that disk usage must meet the usual increments you'd
encounter buying your own separate disks. I'm not convinced that my
sentence doesn't make this as clear as necessary, so I will only
change
it if someone else seconds your opinion.
Also, the beginning of the paragraph is very confusing. The sentence
"In this new set-up, we expect to charge market rates for
above-average disk and bandwidth usage."
could not possibly send the right message in this context. The first
two things that came to my mind were:
1) Ah ok, so they're bigger now, and they'll start making money
2) They'll charge me extra on basis of arbitrary chosen limit for
'average disk and bandwidth usage'
My impression is that this is an English language understanding issue.
The meanings of the pieces of the sentence you quote have no
connections
to making profits. I agree that "above-average" is a murky
concept, and
so I should probably just strike that word from the sentence and leave
the rest as it is.
I was confused about this wording as well. From what I read it seemed
that you were saying that the average disk-usage of all members will
be checked against each member's disk usage, and if an user's disk
usage is found to exceed this average, that member will be charged
for the above average disk usage based on some "market rate."
To me it was not clear what this means.
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Aaron Hsu
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