Please take as much TIME as needed and read directions carefully. Try to keep simple, question requires self research.

AuctionAds.com (a real company), had a modest web server setup that took up about a third of a standard 42U rack in 2009 (see slide 12).

AuctionAds.plc (a fake company very similar to AuctionAds.com, with an identical setup) expects to grow by a factor of three this year, and perhaps more later

AuctionAds.plc have hired you to make a cost analysis of three possible options

1.) Replace their current system with a modern equivalent that's three times as large, hosted by AuctionAds.plc in their building*

2.) Replace their current system with modern equivalent that's three times as large, using a co-location facility*

3.) Drop their current system, and purchase the desired amount of processing power from Amazon AWS/EC2*

* Assume they are buying 3 each of an equivalent hardware item, or one new item with 3x the capability

Your assignment is to write a 3-section paper by next Monday Cover sheet is a one-paragraph Executive Summary, including a supporting table that summarizes your findings

1.) First section discusses hardware costs (important for options 1 and 2)

2.) Second section discusses data and processing costs (important for option 3)

3.) Third section discusses costs for which we have no data staff, cabling, backup, insurance, etc

Sections 1 and 2 should have tables that support your findings. You can recycle parts of them for the ExSum There's no set page length, but I'd guess it would be hard to cover all of these topics in less than four or five pages. Include references to where you found the data. I don't need details, NewEgg, or Rackspace website will do

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In 2009, AuctionAds.com used: 2x Coyote Point 450si equalizer 1x Dell Powervault data storage 4x Dell PowerEdge 1950 server 4x Dell PowerEdge 2950 server Total cost (2009) $48,000 to support: 60 million hits per day 750+ hits/sec at peak times 58 gigs of Javascript per day 134 gigs of HTML per day 16 gigs of RAM cache 1.1 gigs of MySQL In 2009, AuctionAds.com used: 2x Coyote Point 450si equalizer 1x Dell Powervault data storage 4x Dell PowerEdge 1950 server 4x Dell PowerEdge 2950 server Total cost (2009) $48,000 to support: 60 million hits per day 750+ hits/sec at peak times 58 gigs of Javascript per day 134 gigs of HTML per day 16 gigs of RAM cache 1.1 gigs of MySQL