Hi, I have not been able to keep up with this thread completely, but I read most of the mails quickly. I support the idea. About the money, I trust Youness to manage it, but stil want to stress that a few other people should have an eye on it. But I think you already said that in some e-mail earlier on the thread, so I think everything is just fine.
About the ads on the site, just one remark: I really don't like the rectangular borders around some of them, they don't blend with our nice website. The placement of the ads is okay IMO. For the domain, I think we should keep amsnforums.net as an alias that refers to the forums. Some new domain for our website (I don't care much about its exact name). Because amsn.sourceforge.net is quite well-known, there should be a proper 'We moved'-page/redirection there. Also be sure not to break our 'future-proof URLs' where the aMSN application refers to. Harry Op zondag 8 oktober 2006 01:26, schreef Youness Alaoui: > In other words, here are the reasons for our choice : > 1 - leeware, it's good, good prices but it's unmanaged, which means we have > to do everything and in case a system crash, we need to write the guy so > that he can reboot the machine.. and we can't do it remotely... 2 - > rackforce.. it doesn't give enough info about their service, and I don't > like that that much... 3 - startlogic.. they're good, but only a 3 month > subscribtions + activaton fee... + they don't seem to give root access... > 4 - clicserv, it's a dedicated server, not a virtual dedicated server, and > the price is so low.. it sounds too good to be true, and I don't trust them > at all... > 5 - webintelects, it has a registration fee... > > The choice was either Leeware or webintelects... after viewing some reviews > on WHT, we realized some stuff : 1 - Leeware is maintained by Lee (not > clear_beast :P) and only him, it's not a company, it's a single guy who > decided to do this stuff... and it seems his connection speed might not be > 'optimal'... 2 - Webintelects is a company and has had good reviews... > > So only because of webintelects and the fact that it is a company, I'd like > to go with it, because we don't want to have a one guy behind our stuff.. > support is very important, and I think we can get better support from a > company from a 'one guy in his garage'... > > About the domain, I thought about keeping amsnforums.net, we'll need to ask > Yves if he wants to sell us the domain he has or not.. and we can also > choose amsn.org or amsn.net (.net is better since it will be 'compatible' > with amsnforums.net) . amsn.net is already bought by some domain sellers.. > Phil proposed amsn-project.net... I don't know! But to avoid any problems > with M$, we'll have to get an alibi for the 'amsn' name... there is already > an amsn.com website for another company, if we want amsn.net we should > choose a non problematic name.. like "Another messenger"... or > something... I'm not saying amsn won't be amsn, but I'm saying that we'll > keep 'amsn' but we'll need to officialize the meaning of the acronym... > that's about it... > > KKRT > > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 12:22:21AM +0200, Philippe Valembois - Phil wrote: > > Well, > > after a great chat with Youness we conclude that Webintellecs complies > > perfectly with our requirements so after the examination of money we have > > received for 4 days we think we can afford renting a VPS at Webintellecs > > for 40$/mo > > We think to buy a domain name like amsn.* to not rely on SF for > > redirection... So if someone has anything to say he can say it up to > > Monday evening (UTC-4 or EST) > > Phil > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > > cash > > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > > _______________________________________________ > > Amsn-devel mailing list > > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn > cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
