Les,

I would be willing to attempt this is as individual investment of
"my" company (domain hosters usually charge about $100/mo. to
hook in your dedicated server). It could run Linux, NT, Win'98
or even Win'95 (my current platform). I have little knowledge of
Mac server possibilities, and domain hosting entities that I have
inquired of seem to offer only Intel based server support.

My reservation (a serious one) is that the few times I've mentioned
this need in Squeak mailing list, no one seemed interested in such a 
service. Customer identification is certainly part of any business plan.
I don't see all that many. (Well, there's me. That's one. ... )

Jerry.

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 > However, it would be nice to be able to say:
 >     (2) Web hosters were willing to run Squeak based servers
 >         (without heavy-duty special arrangements)
 >         [I think someone would have to see the possibilities of 
establishing
 >         a server within a current domain hosting provider and
 >         resell Squeak hosting to others for competitive rates].
 > 
 > I am jealous as hell of academics who can run PWS, and even better,
 > experiment with server ideas (based on PWS, or whatever) within an open
 > source framework and usable by the world.
 
 We should work on that... once upon a time the same could have been said 
about
 web servers, or ftp servers.    I'm in the academic world, so I get to hang
 PWS and Wiki servers off my workstation.  But perhaps there are folks out 
there
 who could host Wiki servers for folks like yourself.  Perhaps there'd be 
grant
 money in it for the academics?  I wouldn't know how to set something like 
that
 up commercially, but perhaps there would be enough interest to make a decent 
go
 of it, if even on a non-profit basis.
 
 Any ISP's out there willing to give it a try?  It would take some 
experimenting
 to get it "right"- I would have no idea what the technical pragmatics are.  
But
 it might be worthwhile.  Perhaps a Swiki/Wiki cooperative non-profit 
organization
 could be formed, or perhaps some entrepeneur could make a go of it.
 
 les
  >>

Jerry L. Archibald
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