[Finance] Hosting costs

[Martin Burns]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Elfur Logadóttir wrote:

> .| Should we also pursue passing some or all of our current
> .| donations over to Ron? I suppose we should ask what we owe
> .| him. Has Ron responded to any of my requests about how much
> .| bandwidth we're using? I don't recall that he has.
>
> he intended to prepare invoices, has he got your address marlene, to
> send them to you.
> i haven't noticed any bandwidth responses from him.
>
> >Essentially, we're pulling the plug on co-lo with 5 months' notice.
> >
> >If we agree this, then we take it to steering for our sysadmin/desdev
> >brethren to work on.
>
> you think 5mo is enough to change the database used?

If sysadmin/desdev think that it needs doing, that is. I was deliberately
vague about the technical implications as I didn't want to close off that
debate before it starts.

Naturally, I do have my own views on the matter, but I'm not the expert.

> aren't we only 3 that are on this list?
> there was one more, but he resigned, and adrian is only listener, right.

Hugh & John are also subbed.

Cheers
Martin

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