X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

[Jeremy White]

Keith Packard wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:54:56 +0100, Matthias Hopf <mhopf at suse.de> wrote:
> 
>> But something like $100 / month sounds like a reasonable upper limit for
>> me, and you should actually get by for half of it.
> 
> We've got three servers and a switch; the 3U servers are $1200/year, and
> the 2U server + switch is $600.

For the record, I think the assertion that getting rackspace and bandwidth
for 3 dedicated servers in a facility that's reliable, convenient, 
and likely to be around in 6 months for $50/month is a fantasy.

$250/month strikes me as quite reasonable, and very much in line
with what I find in the market right now.

Of course, shifting away from dedicated servers to an alternate
strategy is certainly something that may well be worth exploring,
for reasons beyond cost.

But I just wanted to say that the current spending looks quite
reasonable to me.  And I also know how thankless a task it is to run
a server such as x.org, so let me officially say - 'thanks!' to the
folks that are doing it... :-)

Cheers,

Jeremy