RE: Flat or Hourly Billing ??????

awsome

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:[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf
:Of Bill Earl
:Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 9:42 AM
:To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
:Subject: Re: Flat or Hourly Billing ??????
:
:Eric,
:
:Just an fyi, you seem to be broadcasting your plug password in
:the bottom of your message. You may want to change that
:anyplace you've been using it.
:
:Bill Earl
:Network Administrator
:623-516-4700, ext. 113
:623-587-7787, fax
:www.bestbill.com
:
:
:
:evb wrote:
:
:>How do you charge to rebuild a system from scratch? Flat or hourly?
:>
:>The reason I ask is because anyone who has done a rebuild
:knows there's
:>lots of standing around: put the disk in, start the installation
:>process, make a phone call, kick the cat, repeat--for the
:good part of two days.
:>
:>Building a system from scratch can take 12 hours of
:non-continuous time
:>by the time you install and configure and patch the OS, plus maybe
:>10-15 applications and suites to go along with it. Add an
:mail server,
:>RADIUS, and web server and you've got yourself a machine that
:needs an
:>entire weekend of short bursts of time devoted to the rebuild. Your
:>time sheet would look like " .3, .1, .2, .3, .2, .1, .6, .2, .3, .1,
:>.2, .3, .2, .1, .1, .6, .2, ...n".
:>
:>So I don't see how you can very well charge hourly when rebuilding a
:>machine. Wouldn't a flat fee would seem to be more
:reasonable? And if
:>a flat fee IS appropriate, what amount, given that rebuilding
:a system
:>demands so many short periods of time over several days.
:>
:>I am in a pickle here folks; can you help me out?????
:>
:>
:>Eric
:>
:>
:>
:>
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