On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:42:10 -0400 Nathan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A handful of > our members consume most of the bandwidth and disk space usage, a large > group falls in the middle with moderate usage, and a small group uses > practically no resources. Maybe I am too idealistic here, but I wouldn't like to see us getting into any kind of usage- or status-based divisions. What attracted me to HCoop in the first place was the simple & elegant scheme that everything was based on. Take expenses, divide by number of members and that's it. *Maybe* it would make sense to charge extra for people who would use faaar more resources than planned (like 20 out of total 160 GB disk space, or say, 15% of our total bandwidth allowance). But such people should just be special cases, and billed like regular users, plus their determined extra amount. They shouldn't affect our simple costs-division scheme. Furthermore, I *would* like to see HCoop getting some extra money for future expansion etc., but that could be conducted over a longer period of time (a year or two) on all members equally, and combined with those who would eventually pay extra based on exceptional usage, it would result in a nice total amount without noticeably raising monthly per-member cost. (I think the suggested minimum of $5 per month is too much, especially if you only get a half-featured account). > My idea is to offer those in the last group a flat rate of $5 per month > as long as they keep usage low. To qualify for that rate they would > probably have to have their disk quota set low (about 50M) and use > minimal web bandwidth, as little as 15M per month, and should also have > email forwarded with no IMAP or Squirrelmail access. I am strongly against cutting on features. Usage maybe, but not features. Handicapped accounts are a waste of everyone's time and money. The idea seems so bad to me that I couldn't decide which aspect of it to criticise first. Have a fun day everyone! -doc _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
