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In article <jhBCdTBeadS8EwOz@atomor.demon.co.uk>, Tony Morgan wrote:
> In article <mQHfAKC1eYS8EwdB@xerez.nospam.co.uk>, Shez 
> <news@xerez.demon.co.uk> writes
>>Actually I think I got my costings a little off - that was the cost for
>>10 MB. If you're buying decent quality IBM 60GXP disks then 20MB could
>>cost as much as 4p. Alternatively you could get Maxtor disks at about 3p
>>for 20MB. If extra speed or reliability is needed, a RAID configuration
>>will do it.
>>
>>As for the cost of extra machines or racks, an alternative is to replace
>>older smaller disks with large ones, e.g. put a 120GB drive in to
>>replace an old 20GB one. This pushes up the effective price per MB a bit
>>but will probably be cheaper than adding more hardware.
> 
> This is getting OT, but I'm afraid Shez that there are many, many issues 
> other than the actual cost of the disk array that you (and most) are 
> unaware of.
> 
> To start from the outside in, a single permanent feed into the Internet 
> with an adequate bandwidth for a modest customer base will cost about 
> �2K to setup, with an annual fee of about �5K. And you need to provide 
> fail-over. Then of course you need nameservers. 
[snip a whole load more stuff]

it may well be that the estimate that Shez made isn't accurate... but you
seem to be adding in a whole bunch of other stuff... the cost that was
being discussed was the cost to Demon of increasing the disk allocation
for homepage customers. assuming the same bandwidth limits, i don't see
that would have a huge impact on routing, name servers and all the rest
of that stuff...

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michael