[NCSG-EC] Primer for tomorrow's meeting

[Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix]

Hi all,

A quick update: the fees for our current contract with Wapix would go from
428/m to 468/m with the addition of hosting to the package. The transition
itself would not cost us dev time, but given the outdated character of it
by now, there would be work to be done on it later on (which means dev
time, but we can discuss that later)

So we would go from 44 EUR/m to 40 USD/m for hosting, or a saving of about
7 EUR/7.5 USD per month at going rates.

I have yet to figure out contractual matters with Robhost, and I'll be back
to you when I do.

Have a nice day,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 2:25 PM Raphael Beauregard-Lacroix <
rbeauregardlacroix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> A short primer for tomorrow, as far as my agenda point is concerned:
>
> Updates which are deemed critical to our data systems cannot be performed
> by Wapix given that we are currently hosted with a different hosting
> provider, Robhost, based in Germany. There are technical reasons for that,
> which can be boiled down to the fact that our hosting provider does not
> want to give the level of access required to Wapix. This is understandable,
> but it comes in the way of doing the updates properly.
>
> I do not know much as to why we came to be hosted by Robhost. In any case,
> it costs us 44 EUR/month for a 12 month period, so over 500 EUR or USD/y.
> Stephanie, I believe you are currently paying for it.
>
> This is probably a matter that should have been discussed this summer in
> Morocco, but to be honest I was not aware that we had a separate hosting
> and who it was. I discovered it along the way.
>
> I would thus suggest that we switch over to Wapix for hosting, in addition
> to management. Given that they already charge us for remote access anyway,
> being hosted by them would not cost us anything more as far as monthly fees
> are concerned, and would save us money during development time as they
> would not need to deal with the remote access part, making their work
> marginally quicker. However I believe it would cost us a few hours in dev
> time.
>
> Also, having things centralized with Wapix is a more sustainable solution
> long term.
>
> If I have your agreement on the principle of this, I will see with Josh
> how much it would cost us as a whole (as I said, probably a few hrs of the
> dev time we have already paid for), and what is the process for terminating
> with Robhost. Once things are set, I would be back to you all with the
> figures for final approval.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
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