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Paul Hewson wrote:
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/
Well the software all appears to be free. Although the authors might have been wiser just to use GPL as a licence, rather than muttering about the public domain.
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......)
You have three real external costs. Price of hardware - presumably it is running statistics which are more demanding than web pages. Price of hosting the hardware. Support arrangements. If you need a dedicated server, and some power, it could be as much as 2,300 GBP for a suitable rack mounted box from DELL. Hosting of such a box probably of the order of 1000 GBP per annum. Support depends how much you can do yourself. If you can find a hosting provider prepared to let you do a fair bit with shell access and the like, you may find you don't need a dedicated server at all. Comes down to how busy such a server would be, which depends what it is doing, and for whom. Which also determines if you need a backup server. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.