Aaron Hsu wrote: > Would it perhaps make sense to charge people as soon as they have been > migrated over?
This would make book-keeping more complicated, so I'd rather not do it. Not to mention that it might encourage people not to migrate, which causes _more_ work for us, not less, after a while, because it forces us to maintain two "worlds" of servers! I should probably explain my original thinking behind holding back charges. The last time we migrated (from Xiolink to InterServer), docelic and I did all the set-up work, and we kicked some serious ass, if I may say so. ;-) We worked on it full-time over weekends and finished everything in about a month. I foolishly expected things to take about that long this time, with twice as many people signed on as admins. I should have remembered my Mythical Man Month and predicted that things would actually probably take longer with more people involved. ;-) My decision to delay splitting of costs was based on the assumption that the lead-up configuration time would be very close to the resolution of our billing cycles, anyway. This has turned out to be very wrong. However, I hope that such decisions will be right in the future. I want our next upgrade to be performed by paid staff with set hours. We're a few rungs down the efficiency ladder from that now, combining a number of serious disadvantages: 1) No in-person meetings or similar coordination of admins 2) Everyone volunteering is a full-time student! 3) No one is being paid, so other priorities come first. _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
