[Box-Admins] Re: Squeak's hosting provider(s), bills

[Ken Causey]

Any response?  My situation is rather fluid right now (in terms of how
much time I have available) but I think this is a topic worth discussion
and planning.  The sooner we start, and all that jazz...

Ken

On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 13:18 -0600, Ken Causey wrote:
> Thanks for the info Craig.
> 
> I'm not aware of any other bills.
> 
> Regarding moving the server for billing/business reasons, frankly it's
> somewhat of a PITA ;).  I don't have a lot of time right now to be
> setting up a new server.
> 
> That said one of my thoughts since the problems in October was that we
> should consider distributing our services across multiple servers,
> probably VPSes.  By doing that when a problem occurs it should only
> affect some services and not all of them.
> 
> But this is something I could only work on in spurts and so I can't see
> anything happening very very soon.
> 
> Isn't this billing arrangement just temporary until the situation with
> SFLC is finally sorted out?
> 
> Ken  
> 
> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:37 -0800, Craig Latta wrote:
> > Hi--
> > 
> >       I'd like to clarify the Squeak project's financial situation. I 
> > recently reimbursed Squeak e.V. for past hosting bills, via Rita 
> > Freudenberg, their treasurer. Rita advises that doing business with 
> > Hetzner, the current provider, is too difficult to conduct from overseas 
> > (or even in a language other than German). She recommends that we switch 
> > providers.
> > 
> >       I'd like to know what the box team thinks of this, and also get a 
> > summary of all ongoing bills we pay. Finally, I still have money left 
> > over from the ESUG's allocation to us, from when we were pursuing 
> > independent incorporation. I'd like to transfer that to whomever will be 
> > paying our bills in the future, assuming it won't be me.
> > 
> > 
> >       thanks,
> > 
> > -C
> 
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