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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">When I was doing contract sysadmin
stuff (and as a disclaimer, it's been a while...), I was charging
between $50 and $75 per hour.<br>
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Personally, I don't think I'd be comfortable with any kind of
flat, per server (or per network) fee, unless the needs of the
client were very light. If you're dealing with a large customer,
and a production server goes down that they really, really need
you to work on basically 24/7 until it's fixed because they're
dead in the water until then, and you're only making $50 total for
all that work.... That's kind of an untenable position to put
yourself into....<br>
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--Pat.<br>
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On 1/6/2013 12:10 PM, Anon Adminer wrote:<br>
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new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">I have done a
bit of googling about system administration rates and I found
that they vary a great deal, from $50/month to $300/month,
attributable probably in part to differing geograpic areas and
OSs.<br>
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What are the going rates in the Pittsburgh area? For example,
what is the reasonable monthly maintenance rate for a small
network, 1 Linux/BSD server running Samba, mail, Apache + 5-6
Win XP/Win 7 machines?<br>
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Thanks for your insights.<br>
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