Greetings
Does anyone know an internet presence provider that is genuinely
interesting in meeting the needs of "virtual communities" such
as e.g. support groups? I'm thinking of high-traffic mailing lists
with corresponding websites.
In some respects, hosting services which are more targeted to
business websites simply don't do things right with respect to the
needs of a support-group website. For example, one support group
site that I care about has right now been hit hard by hitting the
disc quota limit. A hard limit on disc space may be appropriate
for an account where files are created by interactive commands or
via ftp, but when mailing lists which are the lifeline for thousands
of people simply break down merely because the disc quota of 100 megs
has been exceeded (those archives are always growing), well... the
people who take care of these lists would rather pay for an entire
new 4 GB harddisc (and for having it installed etc) than having to
deal with the effects of hitting such a disk quota limit.
This is not to say that generous funding would be available... quite
on the contrary! The poeple whom I'm talking about are struggeling
to generate (e.g. by means of selling ads on the website) an income
to cover (at least) the costs of hosting and perhaps also that of
custom programming. It would be great to find a hosting service where
these issues would be understood, and coaching and help with marketing
web advertisements is vailable too.
If you know of a hosting service that may be suitable please drop me
an e-mail note. I will collect the recommendations and post the summary
in a week or so.
Thank you in advance!
Norbert
P.S. I have tried a web search and also checked
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/edmonds/usenet/ml-providers.txt
but found no indication of what hosting services would _care_
about meeting the needs of "support group" or "virtual community"
websites.
