[rescue] Being jobless

[mfree80286 at adelphia.net]

Simple fix; just don't mention that they're 85Mhz processors. Your average
user will
take "20 processor Sun S2000" at face value without knowing or caring, as
long as it's
responsive. The above-average user will already know that 85Mhz doesn't
matter, it's
still responsive.

Some of the cheapest colo I found around here when I was looking ~ a year
ago for a
systems analysis class project was in chattanooga.... can't remember the
exact
company but it was pretty lonely, should be easy to google it.

Mike Free


Original Message:
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From: Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:36:06 +0200
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [rescue] Being jobless


On Monday 28 July 2003 11:25, Michael Schiller wrote:
> With as many  of us on this list that are jobless, and approaching flat
> broke, it's too bad we can't band together and start a company that can
> be staffed by mostly telecommuters (as we're spread out quite a bit).
>
> I wonder how much of a market there would be for web hosting, and/or
> unix shell hosting on a 20 processor Sun SC2000? (I'm still trying to
> figure out some way of making money with this machine, but as time goes
> on I'm afraid that the fact that there are 20 CPUs in the machine isn't
> going to matter to *normal* folks as much as the fact that they're only
> running at 85mhz each.

Hey, not a bad idea actually. You got knowledge, you got hardware [1],
ambition, no money, no suits, it can work :-)


[1] 85 MHz? I heard for databases it's better to have lots of processors
then
fast ones :) )

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