[Atlas-anchors-pilot] RIPE Atlas Anchors to be Single-Service System

[Aleksi Suhonen]

Hello,

On 08/23/2013 01:17 PM, Sascha E. Pollok wrote:
>> But let's talk about this with the rest of the group:
>> what do you guys prefer?
>>
>> The actual contract expiration date, or the cut-off date from NCC side?
>> (if former, we will rermind you a year before, and then 6 months & 3
>> months before it expires...)

> I would prefer keeping this expensive server running until the end of
> the service contract to at least justify buying an expensive hardware (a
> type of hardware I would normally not buy and can not use right now
> elsewhere in the network or datacenter). If I replace it earlier, I
> would have to justify why. Any decommissioning of the existing hardware
> before that date is mostly a waste of money.

All of the above goes for us as well. The only reason we bought the 
expensive server was the hope that we'd eventually get other services on 
it as well. We made a loss last year, because it was an unbudgeted 
expense and now I have some more explaining to do to the board.

If someone bought the expensive machine off our hands, we might be able 
to replace it with the cheaper model.

Yours,

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