[olug] support costs. for Linux

[David Walker]

Is your traffic mostly outgoing?

You might consider getting a cable modem or DSL to handle some or all of
the outgoing traffic and leave the T1 to handle the incoming traffic.

On Thursday 04 October 2001 03:40 pm, Schmeits, Roger wrote:
> What are typical support costs for Linux servers???  I have a quote from
> Caldera for a 5 pack at $1650 or per server is $3130 per year.  SUSE is
> $400 per incident.  This will be for Apache, Squid, content filtering at
> the packet level, MRTG packages running on Redhat, SUSE or Solaris.  We run
> all Compaq machines and I am limited to these three operating systems.
>
> Would anyone like to expand on/share your experiences?  I have strong
> windows background and have been playing with Linux for about one year.  I
> have installed most Linux distros in one degree or another.  Caldera seems
> to work as well as anything for us here.  I don't not feel comfortable just
> throwing a machine without a high degree of success.  I am not the
> brightest bulb in the room but I will not kill my career without some type
> of support system underneath me.  Hopefully within the next two years I can
> wean myself of any support contact but initially it is a necessity.  I
> already threw the idea at my boss and he seemed to be ok with my idea.
>
> Currently we have a T1 that is pretty well soaked during the day and am
> looking a SQUID to allieviate the problem.  Or at least knock the top 20%
> of the traffic through our ISP.  I have one Compq ML370 1G CPU with 500M
> ram. Plenty of disk space to boot.
>
> Any comments?
>
> Roger
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