November 7th, 2013 at 6:58 PM
So, to compliment the release of ShadowPost (my social network software) in March, I had an idea (soon to be project if funding is secured) to start up a small cloud host with affordable prices. It will mainly host ShadowPost communities but can aim at sponsoring established open source projects.
The three locations I had in mind for servers were:
Chicago Area (Continuum DC in Lombard, IL)
Dallas (CoreXchange in Dallas, TX)
Denver (Handy Networks in Denver, CO - COMING SOON)
Here is a map of the locations also:
http://nshadowcode.net/serverloc.png
It will be a KVM/CloudStack powered cloud with a custom panel (though with Solus at the start possibly?), and price at a flat rate instead of per hour, and have fair overages if needed, such as $2.50 monthly for 10GB of space, etc.
All bandwidth would be unlimited on a shared 100Mbps line, in which the user can upgrade to 1Gbps for $25/mo. Hard drive space is RAID 5 protected with SSD caching coming soon.
Open source project sponsoring would equal free or low-price hosting for mid-to-large sized open source projects, that may have outgrown SourceForge or GitHub for example. It would all depend on what the project managers need, for example, we could offer a site for free, and a mirror for software downloads possibly for $5-20/mo.
What do you think?
The three locations I had in mind for servers were:
Chicago Area (Continuum DC in Lombard, IL)
Dallas (CoreXchange in Dallas, TX)
Denver (Handy Networks in Denver, CO - COMING SOON)
Here is a map of the locations also:
http://nshadowcode.net/serverloc.png
It will be a KVM/CloudStack powered cloud with a custom panel (though with Solus at the start possibly?), and price at a flat rate instead of per hour, and have fair overages if needed, such as $2.50 monthly for 10GB of space, etc.
All bandwidth would be unlimited on a shared 100Mbps line, in which the user can upgrade to 1Gbps for $25/mo. Hard drive space is RAID 5 protected with SSD caching coming soon.
Open source project sponsoring would equal free or low-price hosting for mid-to-large sized open source projects, that may have outgrown SourceForge or GitHub for example. It would all depend on what the project managers need, for example, we could offer a site for free, and a mirror for software downloads possibly for $5-20/mo.
What do you think?
