Author: martin fierz
Date: 08:17:01 09/29/04
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On September 29, 2004 at 08:58:15, Rick Bischoff wrote: > >>i don't believe a word. to get an ISP for a place like CCC should cost very >>little money (a few 100 bucks a year at most, certainly not a few 1000 as it is >>now). perhaps steve can tell us how much bandwidth CCC needs. >> >>for examples, check this out: http://www.hostdirection.com/ >>you get a host for 10$ a month these days, and if you need a lot of bandwidth it >>comes up to about 50$ per month. that's 600$ per year and steve is asking for >>about 10x as much... >> >>the ISP will provide you with the service you need, he will have a server which >>is well protected and up-to-date; so all these horror stories about replacing >>the motherboard or no electricity are no issue. >> >>the real issue is to find moderators who do the dirty work. but since these are >>not part of ICC today, i doubt there will be a problem with that. > >Hi, > >Steve has stated previously that the ISP only accounts for $590 a year, or >around $50 a month-- The remaining fees are employment expenses. yes, and they are quite unnecessary. a web hosting service includes these expenses. ICD chess is obviously not a web hosting company, so if they do this, it is very expensive because, as steve said before, supporting 1 or 2 or N message boards / servers gives practically the same cost. so why not get something like this: http://www.dot5hosting.com/virtual.php that's 20$ a month. includes more or less anything you could wish, including cgi and PHP which you might want to run a forum. >Also, most, if not all, home based broadband connections have clauses the >prohibit you from running a publicly available server -- they might not actively >police such a policy, but when they find a violation they are well within their >rights to pull the plug. of course, but i was talking about such a web hosting service, not a home based service. cheers martin
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