> - Node hosting as we had planned looks to be out. We cannot raise our own > money - if we became a PAC we couldnt coordinate at all with HQ, we would > become useless. They cannot pay for the hosting unless the sites became > official. However, it is expected that there will be ISP's willing to offer > to host and help set up the tools for communities who want to use them (for a > price of course). This would get us halfway there (if the ISP's set up the > scripts and we just had to teach them how to admin it). More on the later.... >
Well, I remain ready to kick down for a big chunck of linux hosting space, setup fees plus the first few months (say, till we know if Dean will be a real phenom or a shooting star - or by super-tuesday); I want to put up my own e-zine anyway so it wouldn't cost much more to get a boodie-load of space and data transfer; wouldn't need much in the way of tools since we have so many mega-geeks involved; just need SOLID and FAST tech support to ensure absolute minimal down time. I don't think there'd be any legal issues, I'd just be donating space for a cause, period; my dime, nobody's else's bidness. It's pretty affordable; check this out for instance; these guys are top rated on tophostreviews.com: http://www.ixwebhosting.com/pg.info.dspProductPlatinumPlan/IXWEBSESSION/e2a6 b7bd3de509bd850dbf3ae9955c32 The Platinum linux plan might work, at least for a start; if not, we could get somebody on the phone and see if we could get a customized deal for a little more jack a month; if not thes guys, somebody with a good rep would be willing deal I'm sure; Anyway, look it over then think it over...
