When I asked the question that started this thread my thinking was this: The cooperative would not be competition for Blip or Ourmedia. I, personally, want Blip to survive and thrive -- more competition for big commerical media, more better in my view. The purpose of the cooperative would be to pool the money we're spending on our individual hosting accounts and then, through the greater purchasing power of the pooled funds, secure better terms from an ISP with more bandwidth for the pool. Blip, in this way, could easily be a partner to those negotiations as could Vlogdir, Ourmedia, Mefeedia, RB and anyone else.
Of course, that sort of arrangement very quickly begs the question, why not buy our own pipe? Why not buy dedicated servers and administrate them ourselves. Well does makes us a Blip competitor. But that wasn't my intention. I just thought: pool funds, get better deal. Video blogging is going to grow in popularity. There will be more downloads and, even with some of the "better" hosting options, many of us will start to have bandwidth issues as this happens. Using Blip's services and Ourmedia and Internet ARchive is one set of tools in the kit, a cooperative is another. --- In [email protected], "Ted Tagami" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps there is a way to build off of existing infrastructures? (e.g. Blip, > Ourmedia). They could provide operational support and premium > bandwidth/loads, and we would be supporting existing initiatives. I can't > speak for either company, but I think it would be cool if we could do it > that way.. > > On 2/17/06, davecircumnavigator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since videobloggers have high bandwidth requirements and ISPs give > > discounts for planned large bandwidth consumption, would anyone be > > interested in a server cooperative where we negotiate as a group for > > server space and bandwidth? Has this been tried on this group? If > > every member of this group is paying a monthly basic web hosting fee of > > $5, that's almost $10,000 a month and that buys A LOT of bandwidth. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > SPONSORED LINKS > > Individual<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=ms&k=Individual&w1=Individual&w2=Fireant&w3=Use&c=3&s=38&.sig=OHeQJK by66gg3t35np-qiw> > > Fireant<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=ms&k=Fireant&w1=Individual&w2=Fireant&w3=Use&c=3&s=38&.sig=hK8TfZa7C lhTIxDJdP6Cbw> > > Use<http://groups.yahoo.com/gads? t=ms&k=Use&w1=Individual&w2=Fireant&w3=Use&c=3&s=38&.sig=fljF53rXtnOMj mpIySYbqA> > > ------------------------------ > > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > > > > - Visit your group "videoblogging<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging>" > > on the web. > > > > - To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]<videoblogging- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > - Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of > > Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/>. > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > -- > Ted Tagami > Principal, Universus Networks > > U N I V E R S U S . N E T > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
