D&C Lug - Home Page
Devon & Cornwall Linux Users' Group

[ Date Index ][ Thread Index ]
[ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]

[LUG] Rough estimate of costs of setting up a webserver



Warning: wildly naive question!

Can anyone summon up the patience to suggest ballpark figures for setting up a 
webserver running some specific GPL software.

I want to set up a GNU / Linux webserver running R software 
(www.r-project.org) according to either of the web-interfaces:

http://stats.mth.uea.ac.uk/Rcgi/
http://www.math.montana.edu/Rweb/

I don't see this as being much harder to set up MySQL, or more demanding on 
the server.

i.e. I asked my main employer (I'm only at this address for part time study) 
and got one of the mechanics from the fast show tutting his head and giving 
rather wild estimates of the sort that I reckon ought to pay out enough to (a) 
pay off my mortgage and (b) still leave enough left over for a website 
(admittedly amongst other things he wanted to set up two servers so that one 
backed up the other in the event of breakdown but at the moment I would just 
like a proof of concept at work and don't need that, although if the concept 
is proved......)

Thanks for forebearance.

Paul

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Paul Hewson, Postgraduate Statistics Student (part-time)
School of Mathematical Sciences, Laver Building,
University of Exeter, North Park Road, EXETER  EX4 4QE, U.K.

tel:   +44 1392 382773 fax: +44 1392 382135
email: P.J.Hewson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-


--
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the
message body to unsubscribe.


Lynx friendly