[Board] Web Hosting

[Ron Blanchett]

I guess you are right Garrett we don't need that kind of uptime.
I also know that for the price and what we would get Dotster had the better deal that YoCoLo except on the uptime guarantee end ,YoCoLo is promising 99.999% uptime and Dotster says that they have a 99.9% uptime track record with no listed guarantee on there site that I can find at the moment. Maybe I went to far when I rescinded my support for Dotster

So if the board would like me to not look at any more web hosts I will stand by Dotster and we should get way better service than we get now.

I just know that right now we are unable to do anything we want (meaning we can not install some of the software we would like to use without our webhost doing it for us) with our hosting space outside of what our current web host will let us do. With a new web host like Dotster, YoCoLo, or anyone else that will give us our own Virtual Server we can do what ever we want and we get full control over the virtual server. yes root access to the server, right now we don't get that.

-Ron
Webmaster


----- Original Message ----
From: Garrett Kajmowicz <gkajmowi at tbaytel.net>
To: Ron Blanchett <rrcb21 at yahoo.com>; Penguicon Board Discussion List <board at penguicon.org>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 7:55:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Board] Web Hosting

On Monday 16 October 2006 17:42, Ron Blanchett wrote:
> The attached document contains the Tier Classifications.
>
> I tried to nagotiate a better deal with YoCoLo and the only thing they came
> back with was their $59 Hosting package.
>
> -Ron

I would like to point out that we aren't in the business of needed 99.999% 
uptime.  Yes, it would be nice.  So would a pony.

A better question is: do we get anything we care about for the extra ~20$ per 
month?  Yes, higher likely uptime, but I'm not sure that we really need to 
worry if the web site is down for a few hours at 3 am.

That having been said, there is an "image" risk, that if we are down for some 
reason, we won't get as many attendees because we aren't considered to be as 
serious of an organization.  It's also only $20 - in the grand scheme of our 
budget (which I need to review one of these days), I don't think it's that 
much.  Then again, a penny saved is a penny earned.

I'm just trying to highlight some of the issues here - in fact, I don't have 
any experience dealing with this type of service consideration.  My personal 
server sits in my office.  I'm hoping that other people on the list might be 
able to argue one way or another the items I've outlined.


-     Garrett