Re: hort.net moving?

Chris,
what about the hort.net fund? Could you use that money for some of the bills?
In 2003 you wrote, "I've been doing extra work and have paid about $4000 out of my own pocket for equipment and bandwidth this year...To continue operating, hort.net needs about $2000 per year." And now you say, "I've paid $2000 out-of-pocket this year to keep the site running..." So we can assume that in 2004 and 2005 you shelled out similar amounts of money. I don't know why we can't contribute something to this.

I wish I could offer some suggestions, but I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this technical stuff.

Kitty
neIN, Zone 5
----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" <lindsey@mallorn.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: [CHAT] 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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