* Thijs Kinkhorst (kink@squirrelmail.org) wrote: > On Wed, June 22, 2005 11:36, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > I think the point is that we ask for a donation before we spend money > > on it. > > Sure, but the statement quoted above rules it out entirely. "can't pay" is > pretty definitive. I'm wondering why it's that certain that we can't pay > for it. Based on the requirements it seems unlikely Debian would be able to afford to pay for hosting very long with our current donation income amounts. Gigabit network connections and associated rack space is cheaper than it used to be but aiui Debian hasn't got all that much cash. From a bit of googleing what I've seen is around $3k/month for unmetered 100Mb/s, and $10k/month for unmetered 1Gb/s and I'm not sure those would meet the other requirements so the actual price of something meeting all the requirements would probably be higher. > Furthermore, actually paying for it does not create a problem like now > where the hosting gets cancelled suddenly. Not necessairly. Generally you'd hope so but of course if we go with the cheapest place we can find or get a 'deal' from some place for being a non-profit or what-have-you then it becomes much the same situation. What I'd really like to see, personally, would be some place like ibiblio or ISC hosting the servers. Some other thoughts would be places like MIT or CMU or places which currently host primary mirrors. It might make sense to approach some of these places to see if they'd be interested since it's certainly possible they don't follow d-d-a. Of course, this may end up on /. in the end anyway. I do think that if not much is heard before too long we should probably post the call to d-a at least. I'm kind of curious what happened w/ Above.Net since it seemed rather sudden (perhaps it wasn't and it just seemed that way to me but there didn't seem to be any clue what happened, so.. I'm curious :). Thanks, Stephen
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