Re: [Citizendium-l] Citizendium needs a few additional donations in the next two days

2013-01-31 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi, I have a perhaps very stupid question: But why do we have such insanely high monthly costs for hosting? Do we sponsor another project with free space? If you look for example at http://www.arvixe.com/business_web_hosting, their business plans start at USD 22, which I think should be more

Re: [Citizendium-l] Citizendium needs a few additional donations in the next two days

2013-01-31 Thread Larry Sanger
Sigrid, I agree. Originally, Citizendium launched with a bunch of servers because we thought we would soon need them. Later, Dan moved us to a more modest configuration. Now, there's no reason we can't get by with even less. Another thing that has changed since we got started is that there are

Re: [Citizendium-l] Citizendium needs a few additional donations in the next two days

2013-01-31 Thread Larry Sanger
Hayford, and all, The way I see it, if we can find a technical volunteer who wants to get his or her hands dirty with things like finding the cheapest reliable hosting, and moving things, that person can simply simply present us with a technical plan. Then we say yes or no to the plan. As long as