>From my point of view, $40 or $50 per member doesn't seem excessive if it gets us access to some stable, good-performance systems. If it wasn't for hcoop I would probably be with bluehost.com who wants about $170 for a 2 year contract.
Because I only joined in February, I don't really understand the new Peer 1 arrangement. The charges to my account so far seem very modest. Perhaps a summary statement of where we are with Peer 1, what you think we will achieve and and a rough estimate of the monthly costs going forward would help us (less informed) members. Other CO-OPs (non Internet related) I belonged to in the past required members to buy a 'share' in the CO-OP when they joined. This share would be refundable when the member left the co-op (assuming the CO-OP continued). An up-front 'share' might impede new membership slightly, but there is a certain fairness about it. I would be willing to buy a share in hcoop. I doesn't seem fair or sustainable for Adam to subsidize the rest of us, even if this is his hobby ;) Thanks, - Gregor (in North Carolina, soon to be in Ottawa). On 4/28/07, Adam Chlipala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To recap: Peer 1 has been charging us for colocation services for a few > months now, as we've been setting up our new servers there. We're not > yet ready to switch over to the new systems, though. I have been > working under the assumption that a reasonable slice of the membership > would be unwilling to pay shares of the Peer 1 costs before they are yet > receiving direct benefit from the new servers. As a result, I haven't > been incorporating the Peer 1 costs into the financial records on the > portal, the idea being that, at the point when we are ready to move any > member over, we consider all the Peer 1 costs to that point as a > one-time cost to be split in a special way to be determined. > > Now, a few months into that, we have about $4000 worth of those > charges. I sent a request to hcoop-announce recently asking for people > to throw in more money to help cover these costs in the mean time. With > the volume of people who seemed to respond to that, it's clear that only > payments of several hundred dollars per person could make a difference, > and that didn't happen. I've ended up essentially paying all Peer 1 > costs from my personal funds each month. > > So, what should we do? I don't have any idea how soon we'll be ready to > switch to the new servers. Essentially no one responded to my call to > "lend" HCoop money in the interim. > > Should we call this the point where we bundle the charges so far into > one sum that we split among willing members ASAP, and from here on bill > monthly charges to everyone as they arrive? > > Or, can more of you add several hundred dollars each to your HCoop balances? > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
