I think part of the issue was that the migration to some other servers would
take some effort and no one had both the skills and inclination to spend that
time. And also the alternate servers had to be found. Maybe the cloud is the
answer for the latter question, but the actual migration will still take some
effort, probably a few days' worth or more, and need someone willing to take
that time to do it. My suggestion is to offer to pay something to the person
who already had setup/maintained the servers already and would be the best
qualified to do the move. Unless there's something in the charter against
paying this, probably that expense would pay for itself in the server savings,
especially if site traffic is low and the cloud fee is largely by the useage.
But if using Amazon, make sure to use the separate elastic storage or whatever
its called to keep the database on, because the state of the regular virtual
servers themselves can easily be lost and reset. -- Darren Duncan
On 2013.01.31 11:12 AM, Larry Sanger wrote:
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 services are uninterrupted, and
the price is much less (I agree--it's just obvious that $320 is no longer
necessary to pay, for the services we really /need/) who will argue?
--Larry
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