Business

• 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 in lecture 13).
• AuctionAds.plc (a fake company very similar to
AuctionAds.com, with an identical setup) expects to grow
by a factor of five 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
five times as large, hosted by AuctionAds.plc in their
building*
2 Replace their current system with modern equivalent that’s
five times as large, using a co-location facility*
3 Drop their current system, and purchase an equivalent
amount of processing power from Amazon AWS/EC2*
* Assume they are buying 5 each of an equivalent hardware item, or
one new item with 5x the capability
Your assignment is to write a 3-section paper
Cover sheet is a one-paragraph ExSum, 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.

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