Re: [Gaim-cabal] Names

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 07:55:19AM -0400, Luke Schierer wrote:
> I estimate about 5Gb a day not counting downloads.  I've talked to Dan, my boss, who also
> owns and runs dvlabs.com, about this.  He's willing to host us, except downloads.
> I need to bring it up again now that we are actually looking at it
> soon.
> 
> This would allow us to _use_ that pidgin-im.com domain, to have our
> own trackers (something I would really like), to not worry about how
> much web space we use up, and to manage our own lists.  We can also
> then use whatever content management system we like.
> 
> This is unfortunately REALLY bad timing.  I'm leaving for a week's
> vacation Saturday (I must have confused sean when I told him), and
> Dan is leaving for a 2 week vacation.  So I can register domains
> today if we decide, or _next_ Monday.  Or someone else could.  Either
> way, we won't be able to move forward on hosting till Dan gets back.
> 
> The biggest reason I'd like to use dvlabs, even with Dan being slow
> about things, is because 5GB/Day is EXPENSIVE.  We could go with
> something like serverbeach, which would provide a terabyte/month, but
> that's $150/month and would not provide us with a machine that has a
> RAID.  Not a great solution (I bring server beach up because I used
> to work there, and at rackspace, which at the time owned them).
> 
> Alternately, we could see what, if anything,
> http://myriadnetwork.com/ can offer us.  I've worked with them, and
> they are good guys.
> 

An additional benefit of using dvlabs of course would be that it is
free, so long as we provide a link to them on our home page.

luke