Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 13:31:48 08/27/03
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I assume a machine with a dial-up-connection, where the IP changes every 24 hour will not be suitable. Otherwise I probably could help. joachim@iwanuschka.de regards Joachim On August 27, 2003 at 12:02:37, Andrei Fortuna wrote: >Hi, > >As you might have noticed I have closed temporarily the search engine during the >last weeks. This is because it was consumming too much of my bandwidth while my >connection has a limited amount of bandwidth allocated each month. > >Right now I am looking for solutions on puting the search engine back online. >One solution would be to host it on other computer, I have asked in the past in >this group for help regarding this matter but got no reply. So this seems to be >not an option. > >Another solution would be to ask for donations. And another solution would be to >make the search engine based on a monthly fee (around $5/month/user is my best >approximation to cover my costs). I know the later idea is very bad and it will >make many people hate me and I don't really want to put it in practice. So I >think I will setup a way in which donations can be made and see what goes on >during 1-2 months. If enough money are gathered to keep my bandwidth costs low I >will keep the engine free of charge until the donation money runs out. > >Otherwise I will have to chose between making it subscription based or close it >down permanently, both options beeing equally bad for most of the users on this >list. > >Perhaps I have been pessimistic and there is here a soul that would offer to >host the search engine ? > >Please voice your opinions on this subject here. >I thought to bring this matter into public debate before making any decisions. > >Thanks, >Andrei
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