Monday, August 25, 2008

Drafted email to Ray andJohn

Please check if it looks alright, and if I have missed anything.

Dear Ray and John,
We have spoken to Tania this morning and learned about the project's environment. They are in the process of setting the servers up. The servers should be up and running within next week, and access will be granted to us.
However, there is a problem with the limitation of webspace allocated to MarineCare.org.au. We were told that only 50MB is available for the whole website. That will leave VERY little space to store photos in the photo gallery. Considering each photo can take up to MBs, solutions to that can be:
- increase webspace to at least 300MB
- reduce photos size to (under) a MB
It is very likely that we will put our website up directly through Vicnet since access to the servers will be granted to us. In regards to the installation CD that you have asked for, after carefully analysing, it will be very hard to install the completed website and database with just a CD. Instead, we can provide a backup of the website, documentations and configurations on the CD for others to look at, in case of something happens to the server. Would you be happy with that?
We are in the process of producing an acceptance criteria document base on the requirements that you have stated. I will email it to you on Wednesday and get you to sign it on Thursday afternoon if it is ok for you.
Best Regards,
Kevin Chan

2 comments:

John Lam said...

that should be nice, but 300MB is still small i think.

Kevin Chan said...

yea i know... but that's already a 6 times increase to what they have right now! XD