[Chester LUG] LUG social reminder and t-shirts

Thu Jul 26 12:40:55 UTC 2012

Judging by my last VPS with RS £400 would get me 50 emails a month telling
me the host server had failed so my VPS(s) had to be rebooted :-p

Now you're there Mike I know that will all be sorted!

On 26 July 2012 12:49, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ha ha. I was actually referring to what 400 quid would get you in RS
> world, not how VMs work :)
>
> You could run a few "interesting" websites on it perhaps ;)
>
>
>
>
> On 26 July 2012 12:46, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well they're VMs, so "what you get" depends on the VM size. If you like,
>> we can sit down and I can go over the basics of Virtualisation with you? ;-)
>>
>> If I go for the smallest 256MB VM, that costs about £8/month including
>> VAT, but excluding traffic (£0.02/GB). So I can get £400 / £8 worth of VMS,
>> give or take a bit for bandwidth.
>>
>> At the minute I haven't set any up, but I will be playing around with
>> high availability and MySQL clustering etc :)
>>
>> - MTC
>>
>> On 26 Jul 2012, at 12:22, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> In that case, tell us, what do you get for £400 and what do you put on em
>> lol
>>
>> On 26 July 2012 12:13, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Rackspace are awesome, Stuart. The perks are great (like £400/month a
>>> month of free VMs on the Cloud infrastructure) and there's loads to learn.
>>> I'll be doing the quality checks on new solutions, which will generally be
>>> big-arse clusters etc :-)
>>>
>>> - MTC
>>>
>>> On 26 Jul 2012, at 12:01, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I see.
>>>
>>> Maybe we should put tour dates on the back, but we would have to do a
>>> tour then, with much beer!
>>>
>>> I will take a shirt too btw.
>>>
>>> So Mike, hows the new job working out. They working you hard and have
>>> you grown the Linux guru beard yet ;)
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Stuart
>>>
>>>
>>> On 26 July 2012 11:41, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> He's just referring to the large print on the back, but they'll still
>>>> have the Tux logo and Chester LUG name on the front. To be honest, I'm
>>>> probably going to go for that too.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Mike for being the first customer!
>>>>
>>>> Les
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 26 July 2012 11:37, Stuart Burns <stuart.james.burns at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Err Mike, without the text, its not a LUG shirt is it ;)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 26 July 2012 11:31, Michael Crilly <mrcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'll take a white one, as described, but without the text on the
>>>>>> back. Large in size please. I will PayPal cash :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - MTC
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 Jul 2012, at 11:15, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Hi,
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Firstly a quick reminder that the next social meet is tonight at
>>>>>> the Falcon Pub, Lower Bridge Street. I will be there for about 7.30, so see
>>>>>> you later.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > On the t-shirts front, I've been chatting to the clothing company
>>>>>> about the options. Now we could get basic t-shirts made up with prints, but
>>>>>> we could also have nicer polo shirts with an embroidered logo. These would
>>>>>> last longer and be more suitable for everyday wear, rather than a t-shirt
>>>>>> for the event.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > My idea is to have the Tux logo on the front with "Chester LUG"
>>>>>> underneath. If any of you remember seeing my company polo shirts or the Red
>>>>>> Hat one, these would be the same make and similar logo size.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > I was thinking about having "Chester LUG" printed in large letters
>>>>>> on the back, but if you want one to wear outside of the event you may not
>>>>>> want this!
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > For a polo shirt with embroidered logo on the front and optional
>>>>>> text on the back it will be £15. You can choose from a variety of colours.
>>>>>> If you are interested please let me know ASAP. I'd like to collect money
>>>>>> tonight from anyone interested so we can get them done in time, or if you
>>>>>> can't make it you can always Paypal it over. For those of you who are
>>>>>> further away, I'm happy to discuss popping them in the post.
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Thanks
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> > Les
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> >
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