[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-20 Thread Nathan de Vries
On 20/01/2009, at 5:24 PM, Mike Nicholls wrote: > As a start up I believe its a false economy to run your own servers > with the Cloud Computing Options available... Speaking of false economies, I think the same can be applied to "cloud computing" solutions like EC2. Remember we're talking ab

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-20 Thread Mick Liubinskas
We might be able to slot those servers into the new coworking space. Let me see. On Jan 21, 9:15 am, Andrew Rogers wrote: > Hi, > > > We're still keen on having our own boxes purely for accessibility & > > security reasons and ease of splitting the power + Internet bill b/w > > the 3 of us. So i

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-20 Thread Andrew Rogers
Hi, > We're still keen on having our own boxes purely for accessibility & > security reasons and ease of splitting the power + Internet bill b/w > the 3 of us. So if anyone knows of a corporate that chucks them in the > tip - please let us know :-) I'm new to this group but I know Geoff and he m

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-20 Thread Sam Lai
Ah, Compaq/HP Proliant servers. If you have a little to spend, http://www.graysonline.com.au might have something available. Mike is right about the noise though, so much so we've named them jumpjet and scramjet :) 2009/1/20 Shaon Diwakar : > WOW, thanks for the detailed explanation Mike! We wil

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread Geoff McQueen - Hiive Systems
ralia@googlegroups.com Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home WOW, thanks for the detailed explanation Mike! We will definitely be considering EC2 and have already looked at Google's AppEngine (our only concern is being locked into Google's offerin

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread Shaon Diwakar
WOW, thanks for the detailed explanation Mike! We will definitely be considering EC2 and have already looked at Google's AppEngine (our only concern is being locked into Google's offering). As for the loan of old servers and equipment for the Silicon Beach community - that's an excellent ide

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread Mike Nicholls
Hi Shaon I had this approach when I started out, I purchased two dedicated servers thinking I would put them into a data centre here in AU. It was way too expensive just to get rack space, took too long and the 1 & 2 year contracts made you think twice. I ended up getting a dedicated hosted serve

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread Shaon Diwakar
Yup, the plan is to use the pre-prod box to host our VMs. Currently we've got an Linux VM Image with 256MB RAM running on our desktops but now we're thinking of having something running 24/7 that we can all have our git repositories on, run tests, login remotely,etc. All our code is writte

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread silky
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Chris Miles wrote: > > > We're thinking about running Ubuntu Linux on a VPS in the USA with > > > 294MB RAM - I doubt we'd get more than 100+ users/day for the first > > > few months and we'd be doing well to get 1000+ users/day. > > > > > > Any thoughts on rampin

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread Chris Miles
On 20/01/2009, at 4:46 PM, silky wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shaon Diwakar > wrote: >> We're thinking about running Ubuntu Linux on a VPS in the USA with >> 294MB RAM - I doubt we'd get more than 100+ users/day for the first >> few months and we'd be doing well to get 1000+ user

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Williams
Unfortuately - All depends on how much resource your application needs. What technologies / platform / framework are you using? In term of a VPS. We use slicehost in the US -- linode also have a great reputation. We get by with ~256Mb with a low load - however, our app is mostly c/c++ and quite f

[SiliconBeach] Re: Looking for $0 server/desktop hardware for a good home

2009-01-19 Thread silky
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Shaon Diwakar wrote: > > Hi, sorry to spam, but as a group of starving startup peeps, I thought > I'd ask if anyone has any old desktop/servers which they are planning > to throw out? The only proviso is that it has to be in working order > and in Sydney so that w