| I was just thinking that eventually you'll be buying new servers as you expand, so if you bought one of them six months prior to the MySQL 5 switchover, you'd really just be buying it sooner than it would have been needed. You would lose money on depreciation, but just a few months' worth of added subscriptions (ie from people who would already be maintaining their current hosting packages on the MySQL 4 servers) should pay for that, and possibly more.
Of course it would require some number-crunching, and perhaps an email to the customer base to gauge interest.
Anyway, just an idea. |