[dba-Tech] Administrivia - DBA List Holiday Party (Fund Drive) Invitation

Bryan Carbonnell carbonnb at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 13:37:06 CST 2014


My feeling is leave well enough alone.

At this point, I don't know enough about AWS to make any sort of
educated comment. I don't think there is a huge CPU or memory demand,
maybe some spikes when OT gets flowing :) but it's not very taxing.
The biggest usage issue is the disc space for the archives.

B

On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Mark Breen <marklbreen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bryan
>
> just curious, is the pricing on http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ any
> better?
>
> The new variable ECU machines are interesting.  Any idea what kind of ram /
> cpu we use?
>
> A T2 micro instance for three years up front would cost us approx $150 plus
> bandwidth usage and a little storage.  However our current €29 is not
> expensive.
>
> The tough question for us windows guys is to identify how much power we
> need.
>
> Any thoughts?  Perhaps we just leave well enough alone
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 22 December 2014 at 19:29, Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Correct John.
>>
>> Its a Linux VPS with full root access. Around 40 GB of storage and it
>> runs Mailman to run our mailing lists.
>>
>> B
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:44 PM, John R Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Mark,
>> > Thanks Mark.
>> >
>> > There's a number of different things we have going but the only thing we
>> pay
>> > for is the hosting and archives storage. That's through Rosehosting. IIRC
>> > its  virtual Linux server running mailman. Bryan could give you the
>> > technical details.
>> > John B
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
>> > Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 5:51 PM
>> > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
>> > Cc: administrivia at databaseadvisors.com
>> > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Administrivia - DBA List Holiday Party (Fund
>> Drive)
>> > Invitation
>> >
>> > Hello John,
>> >
>> > Paid a month, hope that is ok, thank you for everything you have done.
>> >
>> > When you say "keep everything going", what is that exactly, is it a
>> windows
>> > server? or a hosted service?
>> >
>> > I ask because I use Amazon to host some sites and I am curious what sort
>> of
>> > processing power / bandwidth / storage we need / use.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 15 December 2014 at 18:06, John R Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hi All!
>> >>
>> >> You're all invited to a Holiday Party!
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> We're having a funding drive to keep these lists running. For the last
>> >> year we've been running due to one person paying for the list costs.
>> >> This has to end. If we get enough, they'll keep going. If we don't
>> >> they'll just shut down some day and eventually you'll wonder why
>> >> you're "not getting any email from the list lately".
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> So pretend you're out at a holiday party with DBA and buy it a couple
>> >> of craft brews or snifters, as that's all it'll take if everyone joins
>> >> the party. Rest assured, DBA can handle as many drinks as it gets. And
>> >> in any case, it'll take a taxi home.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> You can donate at:
>> >>
>> >> http://www.databaseadvisors.com/donations/donor.asp
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >>
>> >> Your DBA Holiday Party Committee
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well
preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out,
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