Re: [hackers] node hosting

[Joshua Koenig]

Sounds good to me, Howard. Though you don't need anyone's blessing. ;)

Also, in response to Jim's question, the problem isn't with individual  
people who want to set up their own h4d-modified Drupal. Our original  
plan included having a powerful turnkey hosting service which dean  
groups who don't have techies of their own could make use of in setting  
up their sites.

This large-scale turnkey service is the only part of the plan that  
potentially runs afoul of the FEC. Groups and individuals using  
whatever space they have to do their own Dean Site hosting is not going  
to be a problem.

cheers
-josh
I would like to propose this again ...

How about CMR, Aldon and I work on finding out what options we have for
hosting ... not to commit to anything, but to have our options fully  
known
when the time comes ...

We know the general FEC rules, and I have already made a very specific
inquiry to find out how we can handle ongoing expenses within the  
rules ...
this is not an isolated issue just for hosting ... it has already come  
up
out here as we are trying to establish a volunteer phone center ... it  
must
come up all the time in other campaigns and there has to be a banking
mechanism that is legal ... we will get to the bottom of it ...

Anyway, if the three of us get busy with this we can go faster, and  
leave
the coders to their work until we have something substantial to  
discuss ...

Howard2



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----- Original Message -----
From: "CMR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:04 AM
Subject: Re: [hackers] node hosting


- 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...







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