CVRPG is Down

[Mao]

What's twisted about it?

You're involved. 

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

What's twisted about it?

You're involved. 

Oh, come on. I'm not twisted, I'm perverted. One would think you, of all people, would get this right...

[Mao]

What?  You can't be both?  I know that to me, you'll always be both.    That's worthy of praise in my books.

[Destina Faroda]

For your first five questions: We're still looking. Likely OS would be linux, but the distribution would depend on the hosting company; many of them have specific builds they supply, so depending on who we chose, the OS may be chosen for us. The connect is a minimum 100Mb, from what we've looked at, with something on the order of a terabyte of bandwidth per month. And, obviously, it depends.

For your last: I work for a web development company. We host websites for approximately 30-50 % of the top 1000 publicly traded companies in the UK. And I'm responsible for something on the order of 120 Slackware, Debian, Solaris, and Windows servers.

Not counting the servers I run for myself, at home, and in colo, with additional work I've done for others, I've been running servers since 1995.

Is that sufficient of a pedigree for you, or should I fish out my CV?

Thank you for the information.  But is that 100 megabytes per second or 100 megabits per second...?

...just kidding. 

I'm a computer idiot, thankfully, but I do know people (online, not in RL) who work with dedicated servers for a very prestigious hosting company.  However, they have to literally babysit these servers.  Doing something unmanaged would be murder if you didn't know what you were doing, but since you do, I have no reason to doubt.

[llearch n'n'daCorna]

If they have to babysit the servers, either they don't have enough server, or they have some stupid developer coding stupid things on them.


Or they're running windows - I personally look after approx 80-100 of those servers running linux/solaris. We have a team of three doing the managing of the 4-5 windows servers, and if one of them goes on holiday, we're generally in trouble.

*cough*