On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 19:28:06 -0700, David White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Until recently we were hosting many of our services on Jexiste. Recently > we have switched to ibiblio. However, each of these services have > various limitations that makes them problematic:
It sounds like it might still be nice to use ibiblio for high bandwidth relatively constant stuff. Can they be a proxy for another web server so that they keep the constant stuff local and hit the real web server just for dynamic stuff. > Because of this, I've had discussions with Ivanovic and Mist, and we > feel that it may be time to consider trying to fund our own server. > > After some research, we have found that for about 90 euros/month, or > $150US/month, we should be able to obtain a dedicated server with a dual > core CPU, 2GB of memory, and a 100Mb connection. We feel that such a > server would be sufficient to run all of the above listed services. That sounds pretty reasonable. I assume that the 100Mb is a 100 megabit per second burst speed? What kinds of aggregate traffic costs are involved there? (I would be shocked if you can get 100Mb/s 24x7 for the above price.) > We will get $500 for each student who participates in the Summer of > Code, but that is not for some time. We could ask people to donate money > to the cause. I suspect we could raise maybe $500-$700 with this > approach. Finally, we could advertise, but it would likely take a while > to raise money using this approach. Donations may not be reliable. Ads might work if you can set up a fire and forget system for using them. If handling donations and/or ads ends up being a big time sink for someone it may not be a good way to go. > I would be willing to initially finance at least some part of it, as > long as there was some plan to repay me the money, possibly through > advertising. > > Any thoughts? Any other ideas? Anyone who has a nice big juicy server > sitting on a rack ready to go and wants to donate it to us? :-) I would think that a virtual server would be adequate for the project and we would probably be more likely to get one of those donated than a complete piece of hardware. _______________________________________________ Wesnoth-dev mailing list Wesnoth-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev
