Re: [Gaim-cabal] Names

[Evan S. <ev...@dr...>]

On Aug 11, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Mark Doliner wrote:

> Do we still have a lot of money from Google SoC?  Can we move away  
> from
> sourceforge?  What about leasing a server somewhere?  Maybe from  
> linode.com?
> How many months could we go at $80 a month?  Luke, don't you work  
> for a
> colocation company?  Do you think they'd be willing to provide a  
> free or
> discounted rate for an open-source project?  Are requirements  
> aren't huge:
> Apache, php, svn, ssh, and a lot of bandwidth (I estimate between  
> 2GB and 10GB
> a month).

Two great companies that have been donating resources for Adium's  
huge bandwidth demands and slightly more moderate server demands are  
cachefly.com and networkredux.net.  In the next email it's mentioned  
that Luke's employer is willing to do everything for Gaim for free;  
if a second or third host or whatever is needed, I could see if  
either of the above are interested in being involved.

Mark, is between 2 and 10 gb a month really reasonable for Gaim?
Adium moved just over 1 terabyte moved in the last month.. and we  
didn't have a release in that timeframe.  'course, download size for  
a universal OS X binary with localization into a lot of languages is  
a bit more than Gaim's distribution size... 12 mb of Adium vs. 5.8 mb  
for the gaim source distribution or 6.6 mb for the Windows binary, as  
examples.. but the point remains that 10 gb is 2 orders of magnitude  
less ;-)

-Evan