[alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status

[Anne Kootstra]

Although I simpathise with your position regarding Noel's input and peoples
motives for offering their assistance.

Companies that offer something for free often do so because they have the
excess capacity. Should the situation arise where this is no longer the case
and is comes to a point there a choice needs to be made whether or not to
revoke the free priveledges and utilise the extra capacity. Then the choice
often is in favour for those that bring in the big bucks.

This is a situation that happens quite a lot perhaps more often than you
might imagine. Especially in this period of "post-bubble" where internet
companies are struggling to break-even. This is why I'm also in favour of
paying for a class one provider but that opens up the can of worms called
"funding". That's why I think its best to switch to a hosting solution which
is cheaper / free and while working on a funding model what would allow us
to pay for it in the near future.

Besides, you have to admit that although logging in on a remote server from
the comfort of your home is nice. Nevertheless, there are a couple of things
that would be more easily done on-site. So having them nearby to at least
one or two senior Foundation individuals I'd consider to be comforting.

--Anne



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Van: alicebot-archcomm-admin@alice.sunlitsurf.com
[mailto:alicebot-archcomm-admin@alice.sunlitsurf.com]Namens Kim Sullivan
Verzonden: donderdag 15 augustus 2002 23:21
Aan: alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com
Onderwerp: RE: [alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status


It's not really true that Noel kept everything to himself. I used to be the
CVS maintainer before the december attack (which, BTW, started the tight
security measures) and, while I haven't been much use lately (sorry), I
still am.

BTW, how many people in the past year have volunteered to do webmastering,
or help Noel with it? I don't mean asking for privileges so that they could
do something (or just have the acess rights), but real contributions. Like
saying - "hey Noel, that page needs a new make up, here's what I did" or "We
need a forum, here are some scripts to get it started, could you add them,
Noel?"

My personal opinion is - keep the sunlitsurf server (that is, if someone can
pay for it) - like you said, they've done an excellent job. I've seen
several opensource projects slowly break down because they always moved from
one free server to another (or had been moved, usually because traffic was
too high to be 'free').

The fact that the new server is easily acessible in person isn't really that
important. How many times did people "suddenly, for no particular reason"
change their mind?

Kim

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