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::: Thanks for looking that up. I've been really busy, which is why I haven't chimed in on RC much, but I've got some stuff planned which is likely to help. I haven't updated the finances page in a while, too, and I need to; I just did the taxes. (I only hope I did them right...) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:36, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
have you considered other free hosting options?
sourceforge, google code, any [[wp:Comparison of open source software hosting facilities|free code hosting]] site that offers a wiki or even general [[wp:Comparison of wiki farms|wiki hosting sites]]? --[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 05:44, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
:There are both good and bad points to that, I think. The good is, obviously, the whole "free" thing. The bad is... well, there are a few "bads", as I see it:
:*Free sites usually limit bandwidth and disk space (more so than RC's current limits, I imagine -- although only [[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] would know RC's needs for sure).
:*We (the users of RC, and especially Short Circuit) would have to rely on the free hosting site to not arbitrarily take RC down.
:*I have seen TOC's that say that any and all content uploaded to said site becomes the property ''of that site'' -- not acceptable for FDL content, and almost certainly not what any RC user wants.
::true, although at least the code hosting sites should not have this particular problem since people would not host their code there if the site claimed ownership. --[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 14:53, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
:Without a doubt, there are more bad points, but those are just the ones that come to mind. -- [[User:Eriksiers|Erik Siers]] 12:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
:: Since my 7/7/2009 post, things have changed significantly. Right now, I've got ''two'' hosts at prgmr.com. 2GB of RAM, lots of bandwidth, lots of disk. That's going to come to an average cost of $72/mo. I currently have two VPS nodes, because RC's primary server is currently running Debian 5 and needs an upgrade. Rather than risk an in-place upgrade of an entire software stack, I've been working on migrating databases et al over from the old node to new node. (You can see the old node ad prgmr1.rosettacode.org, and the new node at prgmr2.rosettacode.org). Once the new node is fully up to speed, I'll either be dropping or downgrading the old node. Configuration includes lots of caching and server optimizations, caching and database tuning. ImplSearchBot hasn't been needed ever since we added category set searching for building the "Unimplemented in X" pages. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
:The chief advantage of self-hosting RC has is that if something breaks, ''I'' can usually fix it. I don't need to wait on a support ticket to get things working again. The secondary advantage of self-hosting RC is that I can fairly easily add services to the server, as it's decided we'd like them. Well, as long as I have time. I don't have any problem outsourcing some things, as long as there's a real use and demand, and RC can afford it. (Whether it can afford it obvious depends on its finances) --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 13:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
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: I don't generally like the idea of paid memberships for a site like this; if there's one thing I don't want, it's additional barriers to participation for people who would place useful content. However, it does offer an interesting side solution: I could charge $5 to enable features which are uncommon for most users, but are commonly targeted in spamming. The specific cases I'm thinking of are file and image uploads. Someone might still pay the $5 and then spam, but they'd be dealt with the same way as any spammer, and no refund. I wouldn't do the same for, e.g. fully disabling CAPTCHAs, I don't think that's as good an idea. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 16:21, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
::My thinking was more along the lines of "additional/reserved functionality", rather than "pay or you can't contribute". And you could make it a subscription-type thing; something like $5/month (or whatever), and if the user doesn't renew their subscription at the end of the month, the account just reverts to a "normal" account. (That could be handled by a script that runs daily; a one-time worry.) -- [[User:Eriksiers|Erik Siers]] 17:10, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
::: I can see how some of Semantic MediaWiki's features might lend themselves in that direction, but nothing that's part of MW inherently. BTW, this did spawn some discussion in the IRC channel: [http://irclog.perlgeek.de/rosettacode/2011-03-03#i_3353924 http://irclog.perlgeek.de/rosettacode/2011-03-03#i_3353924]. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 19:24, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
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