[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu India Hosting Fundraiser

[Baishampayan Ghose]

Vivek,

>   As per IRC discussion today. I have a spare account (read sparingly
>  used) with webfaciton.com , which can be used. They provide all the
>  services that we need. (including svn and mailing list, but I guess we
>  are not moving it right now). I can host all the services of ubuntu-in
>  with the above mentioned account.
>   We also had a discussion regarding generating revenue with ads. I
>  have no objection with ubuntu-in generating revenue. Ubuntu-in can
>  generate revenue and continue hosting as long as you guys want to (if
>  need be, I will sponsor a separate account).
>   We can shift the hosting immediately, if the proposal is acceptable.
>   As for DNS problem, I will recommend that we create an account with
>  answerable.com . So, our effective expenditure will be about $15 per
>  year for domain fee plus managed DNS.
>   What you guys have to say.

I don't think we need managed DNS. Something like EveryDNS.net or
XNAME.org should be perfectly acceptable. Wrt your hosting, is it a
VPS with root access? Does it run Ubuntu?

Regards,
BG

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Baishampayan Ghose
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