Thread: [Simplygnustep-announce] SGStep.com/org/net mail server is available
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From: Chad H. <ceh...@ma...> - 2003-12-20 07:23:10
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I put out a few days back that anyone who asks can get themselves an email account on my new server www.sgstep.com/org/net I was surprised that only one person responded, nobody else is interested? You will also get 100MB of online storage using ftp. In the works are: personal webpages at yourname.sgstep.com online web mail online managemnt of passwords, etc. plus more stuff.... Yes, this is kinda like a simple .Mac service I would like to have as many people using the server as possible so I can get lot's of experience setting in up. Is there any more among you who would like to try it out? (sniff) Chad |
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From: Chad H. <ceh...@ma...> - 2003-12-20 08:09:09
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I'd like to explain exactly what I'm doing here: First of all, I have realized I don't really have the time to work on SimplyGNUstep at the speed which I would like. I think you all would agree that progress has been slow. the reason is that I'm a very busy person! I'm currently in Army, working more than full-time and going to college full time as well. My wife also works and goes to school full time. To add to that, we have two small children ( a boy and a girl) :-). you can imagine.... HOWEVER, I will be graduating in about 1 yr. In addition, I will be leaving the Army in about 15 months. So there is a really big opportunity for all this to change for the better. What I would like is to be able to work on SimplyGNUstep FULL time at that point in time This includes improving GNUstep itself by writing new applications and frameworks. However, there is no way I will be able to do this and support my family without some type of revenue to pay the rent, eat food, all that nice stuff. So I have come up with a plan to (hopefully) allow me to do this. What is that plan? To provide online services similar to Apple's .Mac, but for a much lower price (about $25 a year). The goal is to not only provide the raw internet services but to make it in such a way so that it totally complements and integrates with SimplyGNUstep. I think such a service is a pretty good deal at $25 a year, maybe I'm wrong.... Now, if I can maintain about 2000 paying users at one time that would equate to about $4000 in revenue a month. More than enough to be able to work on simplyGNUstep full tie and produce something really cool for everyone to enjoy. Note that I currently make quite a bit more than $4000 a month right now, so I'm not doing this for the money. If all I cared about was the money then I would stay in my nice, cushy, well paying army job. But before this can happen I need to get the server running with users so I can configure it and see how well it handles loads. I need to see if my inet service is up to the challenge too (I have business class broadband going in my house). As of right now the mail server seems to working (SMTP, POP, IMAP, with optional SSL), I got DNS working too. Right now I'm boning down on PHP and MySQL, which is a vital part of all this. Ok, So I'm asking for as many people as possible to start using the server. I'm not asking for any money or anything, just users. So it would be awesome if you would ask for an account. tell you friends, mom, brothers, sisters etc about it too. The more the merrier. :-). I'm also not going to be charging for SimplyGNUstep, it will always be a free system, so this service will support its development. I may, in some point in the future, sell nice, pretty, packaged SimplyGNUstep boxes, but that will be optional. The same CD will be available for download, unlike most of the other linux distro's out there. Thanks! Chad P.S. Note that the server is not just some cheap PC. For example, it has a 3ware 4 port RAID card, the *real* stuff, don't want to lose people's data! :-) On Dec 19, 2003, at 9:23 PM, Chad Hardin wrote: > I put out a few days back that anyone who asks can get themselves an > email account on my new server www.sgstep.com/org/net > > I was surprised that only one person responded, nobody else is > interested? > > You will also get 100MB of online storage using ftp. > > In the works are: > > personal webpages at yourname.sgstep.com > > online web mail > > online managemnt of passwords, etc. > > plus more stuff.... > > Yes, this is kinda like a simple .Mac service > > > I would like to have as many people using the server as possible so I > can get lot's of experience setting in up. > > > Is there any more among you who would like to try it out? > > (sniff) > > Chad |
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From: Chad H. <ceh...@ma...> - 2003-12-20 08:20:52
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Michael, I agree! However, there are quite a bit of people out there still relying on yahoo and hotmail type accounts. I'm glad you brought up PHP in home pages..this is exactly the kind of feedback I'm looking for. Now I wonder how I could do that and keep the machine secure...I'm gonna look into that one! Any pointers? thanks! Chad On Dec 19, 2003, at 9:55 PM, Michael Adams wrote: > Hi Chad, > > I believe part of the problem is that most of us already have the > personal email and website thing sorted out! But if the personal web > pages support php then count me in. > > Cheers, > --Michael Adams. > > > > Chad Hardin wrote: > >> I put out a few days back that *anyone* who asks can get themselves >> an email account on my new server www.sgstep.com/org/net >> >> *I was surprised that only one person responded*, nobody else is >> interested? >> >> You will also get 100MB of online storage using ftp. >> >> In the works are: >> >> personal webpages at yourname.sgstep.com >> >> online web mail >> >> online managemnt of passwords, etc. >> >> plus more stuff.... >> >> Yes, this is kinda like a simple .Mac service >> >> >> I would like to have as many people using the server as possible so I >> can get lot's of experience setting in up. >> >> >> Is there any more among you who would like to try it out? >> >> (sniff) >> >> Chad > |
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