hort.net moving?

Hi guys,

   I think I'm going to move hort.net to an offsite ISP in the coming months.  

   As you know, I lost Heronswood as a customer this spring, so that took
   away about $3500 in income.  I now have another customer that pays 
   $2400/year that I have good reason to believe will go away, so that's
   going to leave me in a big financial hole.  As it is, I've paid $2000
   out-of-pocket this year to keep the site running, but with a monthly
   bill of $600 for the Internet connection it's going to keep getting
   worse.

   I've been looking at colocation options where I can host a server on 
   another network for about $200/month.  They'll manage the hardware for
   me, but I'll be responsible for my own software installation and 
   stuff.  I'll also probably drop many of the sites that I've been 
   hosting, so the main server use will just be for hort.net.  Google
   ads will pay for most of the cost and I've been doing some freelance
   programming for the American Iris Society that will hopefully cover
   the rest.

   There shouldn't be anything different service-wise and hopefully
   the site will be a lot faster.  The downside is that I lose a lot of
   control over the network and system configurations and we're limited
   to only one server, so if the processing speed isn't enough we're 
   out of luck.  It may also turn out that this isn't feasible because
   our site uses to much bandwidth and disk space.

   If anyone has any ideas or comments, please let me know or share them
   with the list.

Thanks,

Chris

P.S.  I don't want to hear talk of donations and stuff.  :)  Although
      appreciated, it would just be a temporary fix.  We either need 
      more (self-sufficient) customers, a sponsor to pay for the site,
      or some other plan.

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