Please promise me you won’t make a switch now. The last thing we need is switchover hassle on top of the slashdot flood of work we’ve got now. I’m losing my mind there are so many things that need to be done.
Also, it would suck to be on a smaller, less reliable host just to save a measly $20.
I will try to think of a polite way to ask the donor if he sent it, but right now there are other higher priority things that are going to bump even that for a few days.
Would a donation of bitcoins help in the short term?
mmalmi@cc.hut.fi wrote:
Rackspace has very good support, good backend, good connections and nicely scaling cloud based virtual servers. I got this offer from Thufir:
Hi Sirius,
Check out www.citrusdesignstudio.com. You will see through the portfolio that I am a real business with many clients.
That is my business that I provide managed hosting through. I also do unmanaged VPSes.
Normally I would charge $15/mo for 512MB. I will do it for $10/mo for you.
To see my pricing, go to www.linnode.com. I match everything they have except their great panel — you have to email or call my people.
I provide VPS services normally for 3/4ths the posted cost on linnode.com. (Rackspace is even more expensive.)
I will do it for 1/2 of linnode’s price for you.
It scales linerally just like linnodes, so for 2048 MB of memory, I would charge $40, etc.
Later!
That would be worth considering, if they have good datacenters and connections. $10 / month is about $20 less than what Rackspace costs. On the other hand, Rackspace prices are no problem if the donation is to arrive.
Source: Published by Martti Malmi on GitHub in February 2024 as part of his testimony in the COPA v. Wright trial. The full correspondence archive is available at mmalmi.github.io/satoshi/.