[Theforum] That $1k a month hosting bill...

[Ron Dorman]

rudy wrote:

> >i thoroughly enjoy reading your stuff rudy.
>
> thanks ron, you just made my day
>
> i wish we could believe the "free hosting" deal
>
> my fear is that it will run swimmingly for a while, and then one fine day
> we will be told "well, we have to start charging now, you know how it
> is..." and we'll be too flummoxed to move quickly enough, because the jump
> from there to another host (or back to our own machines) will be very
> painful indeed...

and a valid concern.  things are doing well on our servers.  even co-loc could
be detrimental if hardware fails and we can't get someone at the co-loc to fix
it.

> but let's see what they say

agreed, always gotta hear what's it about

Ron D.