[alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status

[Dr. Richard S. Wallace]

Good question Anne.

All of the pending legal issues with the Foundation will be resolved at the
Board meeting tomorrow August 16.

There is no rush to switch hosting services.  We can take our time to make
this decision.

Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Kootstra" <anne.kootstra@chello.nl>
To: <alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:14 PM
Subject: RE: [alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status


> When will this come into effect? Due to the open issues in the board and
> technical issues regarding control over content?
>
> --Anne
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: alicebot-archcomm-admin@alice.sunlitsurf.com
> [mailto:alicebot-archcomm-admin@alice.sunlitsurf.com]Namens Dr. Richard
> S. Wallace
> Verzonden: donderdag 15 augustus 2002 21:11
> Aan: alicebot-general@list.alicebot.org
> CC: alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com; Fritz Kunze;
> fheflin@ispstartups.com
> Onderwerp: [alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status
>
>
> Input from the community and ArchComm is welcome on the issue of moving
the
> alicebot.org server.
>
> We have an offer from another AIML company to host alicebot.org for free.
>
> Sunlitsurf.com is currently providing us a kind of "subsidized" service
> right now for about $50 a month.  They originally offered us the service
for
> free too, but our laywer (now gone) recommended that we pay a small
monthly
> fee to avoid a situation in which the provider could "pull the plug"
without
> warning.  Also, as a bona fide paying customer, it became easier for us to
> call up and request things, like fixing problems when something went
wrong.
>
> >From my perspective, Sunlitsurf has done an excellent technical job of
> hosting alicebot.org as we've grown from a small trickle of clients to one
> entire T-1 line of traffic.
>
> We had a slight problem with our last webmaster trying to control
everything
> himself.  This had nothing whatsoever to do with Sunlitsurf.  We can
> probably avoid this problem in the future by relying on a group of
volunteer
> webmasters drawn from the community, not from the Foundation Board or
> Officers.  Eventually of course we would love to hire a professional
> webmaster and systems administrator.
>
> One advantage of switching to the new free server is that it is housed
> locally here in Oakland, CA in a facility where I can go easily, and I
know
> the people who work there.  Sunlitsurf is 3000 miles away in West
Virginia,
> and although I have spoken with them on the phone a few times, it's not
the
> same as face-to-face meetings.  Our CEO had some concerns about their
> responsiveness to our request to change to root password, for example.
>
> The disadvantage of the "free" server is that it puts us back in the
> vulnerable position of depending on a company that can, however nice they
> seem now, pull the plug without warning at any time in the future.
>
> With real funds and fundraising, of course, none of this would be an
issue.
> We would simply pay for first-class web hosting services.  (Then we would
> have the problem of being dependent on donors perhaps, but that is another
> story...)
>
> Rich
> --
> "How can you have an anti-drug drug czar if religion is the opiate of the
> people under a czarist system and our president is a religious man opposed
> to
> people having opiates in their system?"--Michael Modes
>
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