That would be a possibility. I wonder if we could hook up with Free Geek to see if there was any interest from their group.
- Isaac On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 5:01 AM, drew wymore <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 8:53 PM, David Mandel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I use to use seaccp.org in Seattle and liked them a lot; but Seattle > > is a long ways from Corvallis when trouble happens. > > > > I'm not aware of any equivalent in the Portland area. One reason for > > that is that we have osuosl.org. At Linux Fund, we finally moved > > to osuosl. They are great, but their mission is much more restricted > > that seacpp's, so many people and groups who can use seacpp can not > > qualify to use osuosl. Also, seacpp gives users more freedom than > > osuosl generally does. > > > > There are a number of small, friendly, high quality for-profit hosting > > services in Portland. The one that comes to my mind is forked.net. I > > used them for several years and really like them. > > > > Seacpp has had financial difficulties at times even though it is > > located in Seattle. Given that Seattle is larger than Portland and > > that Portland is already served by the likes of osuosl and forked.net; > > I doubt that a Seacpp could succeed in Portland - BUT I could well be > > wrong on this. > > > > > > Sincerely, > > David Mandel > > Executive Director > > LinuxFund.org > > 560 SE Alexander > > Corvallis, Oregon 97333 > > (971) 223-5169 land > > (541) 730-5285 cell > > > > > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Mike Connors <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> Is there a community colocation datacenter in Portland OR? I am > >>> looking for somewhere to put a server, and I would like to do it in a > >>> community-based datacenter like sfccp.net or seaccp.org. Is there > >>> something like this in Portland? > >> > >> Hi Ike - Not that I know of. I asked the same thing last fall and also > >> asked if people would be interested in starting one. I'm still > >> interested in such an endeavor... > >> > >> -Mike > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > Perhaps if we could get a group of us together and then go about > contacting local DC providers and see what kind of pricing on a per > cabinet basis we could get? I am fortunate that an Infinity Internet > customer who has 2 cabinets loans me 1U of space, I believe he's > paying about 500 per cab per month which isn't too bad as it includes > 1 20 amp circuit and a large amount of bandwidth. If we got enough > people who were interested, willing and were in it for a reasonable > period of time perhaps we could all rent a cab and share. > > Drew- > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
