Re: hort.net moving?

Same here Chris...I'll gladly pour some money into the fund for what you
have "donated" and if I need to donate monthly or bi-monthly to keep it
going...just let me know!

   
  Jess

"Theresa W." <tchessie1@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
  Hi Chris-
Well- I'm glad you are letting us know there are issues and kind of wish 
you'd told us earlier. While donations won't fix the problem, I rather 
feel like donations are the least we can do the help reimburse the $2K 
you've "donated". For the long term, I think what ever is the easier, 
and least financially burdensome should be the choice. You'll know 
these things alot better than any of us. We certainly all can live 
easily with slower post times, etc. Also, we can work on sending 
individual messages/greetings, and some of the really Off Topic 
issues/opinions off-list to help save bandwidth. Any other suggestions 
of what WE all can do to help??

Theresa

Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:
> 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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