[Trash-talk] subhuman.net ('the garbage fan site') ends in 6 weeks

[Shell @ The Garbage Fan Site]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam i Agnieszka Gasiorowski FNORD" <agquarx@venus.ci.uw.edu.pl>
To: "Shell @ The Garbage Fan Site" <shell.bryson@digitalharmony.co.uk>
Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Trash-talk] subhuman.net ('the garbage fan site') ends in 6
weeks


"Shell @ The Garbage Fan Site" wrote:

>> Well, it finally happened. The arrangement with our "free" host ends
March
>> 1st leaving us without a host for the site. The problem is, we were
hosted
>> in exchange for design work and support, which means we never paid for
>> hosting. We now have an issue that the site (even though it's not been
>> updated in a while) is generating so much traffic now that it's pretty
much
>> uneconomical for us to continue it. We really want to avoid shutting the
>> site down after 6 years of running. Basically we cant afford to host it
from
>> our own pockets. If anyone has any bright ideas, let me know, cuz I've
spent
>> much of the night talking to unhelpful American providers (UK ones are
just
>> stupidly expensive).

>How much does the site cost you monthly? Maybe
> you should just gather more people and divide the
> required payment? Like a hippie commune? ;8).




We've never paid, so I dunno :)  I've hunted around the net, and to get
smilar hosting to what we run now, it'd cost around $200 a month to run. If
we were to re-write the site to run on PHP/mySQL we could possibly 1/2 that
cost... but it would take at least 4 months to re-write the site.