Here's a question that I have no idea to answer.

Most of you know me for my DNS services. Over time I've come to see the problems a lot of people have and for some people I know when they go down and all of their routing problems. (and I could get this info for any of my users if I really wanted stats)

There are solutions to almost all of the problems I see. Some are easy to implement and some are hard.

I've developed a few solutions of which some are completely done and some are just tested/toyed with. The problem is that the ones which are REALLY killer, I can't afford to release them. The bottom line is that I have some really awesome network tools to insure uptimes/data integrity/speed/security/etc but I just don't have the resources to release them or for some of the complicated ones, even test their scalability.

So the question is, what would you do:
1) Release them as ghetto_service which defeats the purpose of these services which are meant to be FAULT TOLERANT and a BENEFIT to any server which uses them.

2) Sell the code to someone else.

3) Just sit on it until I can afford to buy some more mailserver/dns servers/file servers.

It's quite frustrating.

-davidu

If you can't afford it, don't provide it.

I think you can either sit on it untill you have the money, or find a partner with money :) Or if you plan on making money with these tools you can always get a loan from a bank.

Originally posted by mlip129
I think you can either sit on it untill you have the money, or find a partner with money :) Or if you plan on making money with these tools you can always get a loan from a bank.

Yeah, I think those are the only options.

I will probably avoid a loan from a bank simply because I don't like the idea of being indebted to someone for a long period of time.

Selling it is also kinda lame for me because I lose the possibility of recurring income from montly supscriptions and whatnot.

I probably should have kept that email that said: "MAKE MONEY FAST $$$"

:D

-davidu