Author: Andrei Fortuna
Date: 11:19:59 08/25/04
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On August 25, 2004 at 13:22:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >I would have no problem paying. But it will cause CCC to shrink and die over >time as the new blood we need will shy away from paid subsription services. > >I'm looking at this long-term, and for-pay is not going to work. Hi Robert, What do you think about this solution : have someone host the site using either a commercial (vBulletin) or free (phpBB) forum software that provides automatic search and many nice features - and then have a URL redirector like http://come.to/CCC that will redirect to the latest IP of the site so users won't alientate if the site changes ? As far as my views go the biggest cost is paying the bandwidth - but unlike here in Romania where I pay $100 + taxes/month for a 164 kbits connection I understand that in more civilised countries Internet access is much cheaper and surely such a forum can't consume that many bandwidth - I remember that the search engine consumed around 30 MB/day max when I hosted it. Then there is moderation but this was already done for CCC by volunteers ... And there are the costs of maintaing the site and here I see an initial effort to set it up but if using a well tried solution the maintenance should become automatic ... Am I missing something ? Best Regards, Andrei
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