Wejo = Computer Idiot

Hey RighteousJoe,

Do you feel better about yourself now?

Next time do something productive.

Hey Shrink.

Do you feel better about yourself now?

Next time do something more productive

So you're using the running message board programmed by a sixth grader in Wejo's mom's basement to show your disgust about Wejo's opinion on the IT requirements for the Boston Marathon?

So who are you upset with, Wejo or the sixth grader?

You probably should be starting a thread entitled: Wejo=Creator of a running site I can go too and show how much a whiny bitch I am.

You can't be serious. A DS-1 costs about $500/month, and that's a big pipe. Even a cluster of a half dozen high end servers (you can get a helluva lot for $10k in a server), and some pricey ware and you're still way under $100k. It's higly unlikely that the BAA maintains a server farm for ONE day of high traffic. They're probably buying bandwidth and processor speed for that one day, and they're getting ripped.

Yes, I do this for a living.

Computer Geekoid wrote:

You can't be serious. A DS-1 costs about $500/month, and that's a big pipe. Even a cluster of a half dozen high end servers (you can get a helluva lot for $10k in a server), and some pricey ware and you're still way under $100k. It's higly unlikely that the BAA maintains a server farm for ONE day of high traffic. They're probably buying bandwidth and processor speed for that one day, and they're getting ripped.

Yes, I do this for a living.

They better have way more than a DS-1 pipe (1.5 Mb) for a million page views an hour. especially considering the meida's "need to know now" access, I'm guessing they have OC3 (155 Mb) or better which can be $10,000 a month for a small business. And if they're only renting it for a day, then I'll agree, Half Million is excessive.

I do this for a living too.

Computer Geekoid wrote:

You can't be serious. A DS-1 costs about $500/month, and that's a big pipe. Even a cluster of a half dozen high end servers (you can get a helluva lot for $10k in a server), and some pricey ware and you're still way under $100k. It's higly unlikely that the BAA maintains a server farm for ONE day of high traffic. They're probably buying bandwidth and processor speed for that one day, and they're getting ripped.

Yes, I do this for a living.

Then why don't you read the article and tell us where the BAA is getting ripped:

Well, they're not getting ripped if they're getting it all for free (as the article seems to say). So....nevermind.

I'm sure they outsource the developement of the site to a consulting firm which on a site that large might cost around 100k from scratch to design and develop. I.T. costs stack up pretty dang quick.

When putting the price on donated service you quote a high List Price for a writeoff. No one should ever pay List Price for anything they actually buy.

Dem ole boys a BAA aint felled off de turn-up truck.Da be gettin' doughnated.