On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Jonathan Blackburn wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > (**please excuse the cross-posting**) > > I am looking for help on coming up with the most optimal > "configuration" of > server hardware for our library. I'd recommend hosting offsite unless: * You have really private stuff, that you really need to stay private. * You can afford to have people on-call whenever you care about being online. * You can afford redundancy for a lot of gear, and the skill and planning to test the redundancy on a recurring basis. For normal web hosting, though, you just can't beat the commercial guys. Even cheap, cheap, cheap hosting (Dreamhost, for example) is really good -- uptime is constant, backups are automatic, restores are trivial, and you really have a lot of freedom in what you can install and run. -Nate Wendt Library