lkcl dijo [Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:21:45PM +0000]: > >> But I understand you might have better preferences. Please provide me > >> the details for a web space you will sponsor and keep for several > >> years, and I will move raspi.debian.net there. > > Gunnar: can i ask: I take it that you, personally, are not > comfortable paying for hosting bandwidth, out of your own personal > funds, if the end-users who are downloading images do not themselves > offer you any financial compensation or give you donations for doing > so?
No, nothing like that -- I am paying for bandwidth+disk space for many of my personal sites, projects, and what amounts to my data dump. I have enough space and bandwidth to tuck raspi.debian.net along all that. I believe the service quality to be more than enough; this is the first time I see aby complaints regarding my service provider. > do you ever receive any such offers that would aid and assist in > covering the full cost of the hosting, or for your efforts in > maintaining the server? I prefer not to have to think about international money transfers and the like. I am paying for this service, and will continue to do so even if raspi.debian.net found a different hosting. > Gunnar mentioned that you are free to provide an offer of an > alterative hosting service - AND PAY FOR IT (or find a long-term > sponsor) as a very polite way of saying, by omission and > implication: > > "you get what you pay for... and you haven't paid me anything" I prefer to leave the "paying" out of the question. I don't want people to think that they can pay me for my time; my time is not for sale. > put plainly: hosting those images costs *real money*, for which > someone has to pay! It is marginal cost only, it's using resources that are already paid and available. > so please: if you find the service that Gunnar provides at no charge > to yourself to be inadequate for your needs, *pay him to improve > it*!!! > > [or, help him to find a sponsor willing to pay for better and > long-term service, as he suggested] Please don't pay me. If you offer a good hosting solution and plan to keep it viable in the long run, I can be persuaded to move raspi.debian.net from my current hosting provider. Thanks,
