This has been a great discussion. And I want to add one more thing to what Aaron has said,
> And the hosting costs were considerably cheaper and less complicated
> than setting up and hosting a Plone solution. We need these things to
> change if we want to make Plone an attractive option for NGOs.
I think the steep costs of the Plone hosting solutions is due to the huge resource demands made by the zope/plone stack on the server in terms of mainly memory and processing power to a lesser extent. Making Plone less resource hungry - as light as a breeze - will help in reducing the costs. I think work is already going on in this end with integrating CacheFu with Plone ... and there might be several efforts on the zope side. This would benefit not only the NGO segment but the whole Plone community as well.
And I think that making the installing and esp. the maintenance and upgrading less labour intensive will further improve the readiness of the hosting companies and reduce the costs. This would include some automatic patch management system in case of security patches and easier upgrading cycles.
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Mohan
I.T Department.,
World Community Service Centre
May the whole World enjoy Peace, Prosperity and Happiness.
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