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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:58:34 -0700
From: "Gavin M. Roy" <gmr@ehpg.net>
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To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Server unreliability
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Josh Berkus wrote:

>The big obstacle in moving anything is bandwidth.   While any number of 
>companies will offer to host stuff for us, we can't match the amount of 
>bandwidth we're currently using in Panama -- and hosting donors won't support 
>anywhere near that level (which runs to scores of GB per month).  So while we 
>can move individual, less-crucial components, the mailing lists and the main 
>WWW require either Hub.org's generous bandwitdh or other hosting that we 
>"own".  
>
>I have actually been working on raising money for additional servers.   The 
>obstacles which have made this a year-long process are more complicated than 
>I want to go over right now, but there are people thinking about it.
>
>  
>
I'd be more than happy to donate 50mbit per sec or more on an ongoing basis.

Gavin