Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm starting a business, and I'd like
to know what you guys think the optimum number of admins to
server ratio is for financial modeling reasons. Or if there's a
better metric to use? I come from an embedded programming
background so this is an area that I'm pretty squishy on
knowledge-wise. : \  Additional Info:  There will be a lot of
servers.  Mainly Linux boxes, with about 10% Windows boxes.
Thanks in advance!  Updates from Comments  All I'm asking for is
a ballpark figure. It needs to be very high availability, but
luckily the system lends itself to spares/replicas.  Three
database clusters (two cassandra, one sql) with around a million
rows each. About 200 Linux boxes running a custom protocol (but
is ultimately just a proxy for the datbases), two SANs with
about a petabyte a piece, about 200 Linux boxes as basically
video encoding appliances, about 50 windows boxes running the
same custom proxy software.  And pay competitively. I'd rather
have a few good admins than a lot of