On Friday 20 July 2001 09:19, Andrew Hennell wrote:

> The "$100k" to set it up seems, to me, inflated. I co-lo servers on
> much more than 45/8 for only $8k a year... so if the rest is
> hardware, even with two systems and raid5 (where 0+1 would probably
> be better), NR needs to shop around a bit for their hardware.

This isn't a simple single co-lo. There are two systems in two�
different datacentres. One 45/8 the other 100/100. RAID 0+1 is�not a 
preferred solution for reliabilty btw, fast yes high�availability no. 
On top of the infrastrucure of a couple of�servers and storage, there 
is back-up to DLT and off-site�archiving, there is the cost to us of 
the bandwidth, there are�the maitenance agreements on the h/ware/OS 
all either by our�engineers or vendor arrangements. All up $100K is 
about ballpark.

> I offered to host AUNIC for only a small text link on only _some_of 
> the pages, and definately not the lookup pages. I was too late, NR
>�had already closed the deal.

There seems to have been a lot of offers after NR had "closed the�
deal". I wrote the original tender and it was quite a long�process. 
There was registration of expression of interest I�believe about 3 
months prior to auDA releasing the call for�tender. There was then a 
few months of open tender which was�extended. There seems to have 
been to me at least adequate�opportunity for those serious about 
hosting the service to place�submissions to auDA.

Brett Fenton
NetRegistry Pty Ltd