I'm trying to get a feel for how much money it costs to build and maintain various systems in order to better gauge what kind of host to give various businesses and corporations. I'm thinking on the order of Security Rating * Access * Control * Index * Files * Slave * (1 for blue, 2 for green, 3 for orange, and 4 for red).
That comes out to 590 k for a typical green easy and 34.5 M for a typical red hard (according to the random tables in SR3). Then maybe 5% annual maintenance costs on top of that. Is that too expensive? Too cheap? Of course the size and memory etc will play a role, but I'm looking for guidelines based on security.