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Here's the first example I'm thinking of for a buyer's co-operative.
I think you can get a dedicated collocated server for about 50 dollars a month, no? I wouldn't pay that, but I'd pay 5 dollars a month for a 10th of one. (With the option of reselling further accounts.) Are there 9 other people who think this? And how could we organize to buy.
Comments as to whether this is
a) worth it.
b) desirable
c) how we could work out a way of pooling regular payments that we'd trust. (Given that someone would have to handle the money.)
I think you can get a dedicated collocated server for about 50 dollars a month, no? I wouldn't pay that, but I'd pay 5 dollars a month for a 10th of one. (With the option of reselling further accounts.) Are there 9 other people who think this? And how could we organize to buy.
Comments as to whether this is
a) worth it.
b) desirable
c) how we could work out a way of pooling regular payments that we'd trust. (Given that someone would have to handle the money.)
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Re: collocated web-server?
Mon, November 17, 2003 - 9:32 AMPhil,
I think that a Buyer Coop for servers is an essential first step for us to make.
We (uniteddiversity) have looked into this and found some pretty damn good sever offers (can't remember the details, but will post them at another time).
Tav, our python zope hacker, has been working on an ammalgamation of Wikis, TypePad and Tribe-like features for a while. We hope to launch the new services before the new year (a preview of the cross-platform wiki can be seen at www.abctales.com/wiki - the site tav is working at the moment).
We plan to sell these services as some form of buyer coop. Prices will be on a sliding scale, depending on how open users are with their content (i.e. what creative commons license they choose) and their usage. If users agree to put all their info and content into the public domain, they will effectively be joining our server coop and will be charged at cost for the bandwidth and data trasfer that they use. The greater the amount restrictive content they publish, the higher the price (to reflect the cost of enclosure to the community).
Thoughts, Comments?
Peace,
Josef.
