Posted by Myles on Wed Nov 18 14:26:33 1998
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: CommUnity ISP posted by TimJ on November 17, 1998 at 19:44:29:
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>>>Well seems like a success,
>>>170 per calendar month plus 5p per meg beyond 100,
>>>a reseller program which offers us 15% on sales.= £1683 pa (with VAT discount) + bandwidth charges
(what was the total throughput of Paneris in October?)>The I-way deal is 500gbp per _annum_, and has no bandwidth restrictions (as long as we do not abuse it).
This arrange took quite a while to reach, I seem to remember.
In time, Community might give us a more favourable deal, but
probably only after we have a better relationship.>>This brings me onto the issue of sharing the costs.
>>I think we have a new and clearer definition of core members:
>>those who contribute to the site AND pay for it :)
>>(Which means currently there is only one core member :)We could pay for server hosting for a couple of years
with I-way or 6 months with Community out of the current
fund. If we are thinking of charging members, I would
prefer to go with I-Way at a third of the price. And
thank you very much to TimP for providing Paneris (financially
and otherwise).>>SO:
>>All referal money should go to the Paneris Fund.
>>In addition Core members should set up standing orders to
>>the paneris fund ????
>>Or a per project levy???I don't think we can get into sliding scales of charges
and I don't think we can insist that (non-core) members
use Paneris and then charge them for it!>>All in all I think they are a goer.
>I don'tWe can develop our (working) relationship and then think
about using them to host us, but I personally would rather
use I-Way to host the new machine on a financial basis, but
people might have other reason not to use them :-/Myles