Monday, December 03, 2001, 4:41:12 PM, you wrote: > I have had to change my web site's host service. The bad news is that > the new host service charges for bandwidth as well as for disk space > (I've never had to deal with that before), and the bandwidth used by > both my freeware programs and the Pentax FAQ would (if nothing were > done) cause me to pay considerably more per month for the host service. > Unfortunately, unlike my shareware programs, neither of these uses help > to pay for the host service costs, so "they've gotta go" (elsewhere).
> A little history on the Pentax FAQ: Basically, the FAQ had been > languishing for years, and in fact became unavailable for a time a year > or two ago, and it looked like it might even be lost (!!!). Someone > (sorry - I don't remember who) did have a copy of it on his hard drive > and was able to send it to me, and I simply put it on my own web site, > almost as is. I did make a few small changes, but basically put it up on > my site about the way it was (which was about the way it had remained > since the mid-90's, I think). I really didn't have the desire or the > time to do much with it - I just put it on my site to save it from loss > and to make it still available to all (even though it was still in need > of much updating). > So, I will need someone to take over the Pentax FAQ hosting by adopting > the little orphan and giving the poor waif a loving home (or at least a > home of some sort). The lucky sponsor would have to have adequate > server space for it and adequate bandwidth, too (I was surprised how > many hits the ol' site still got). > There is no major hurry to make this transition, as I have plenty of > room to keep it inactively on the server. But, since I had to disable > it to keep from getting an extra bill for bandwidth overage, the FAQ > will now be inaccessible until it finds a new home. > I would prefer that it have some sort of a long-term home, of course, > especially in the possession of someone intent on updating and improving > the FAQ. > The FAQ right now includes 103 files in 11 directories, and involves > about 1 MB of info. (However, depending on the cluster size on the hard > drive, it may need much more physical space for storage - e.g., on the > Windows FAT32 hard drive that I have here, the actual storage space is > over 3 MB.) Zipped up, it can be dispatched to its new home as a 350 KB > file. > Anybody interested? I have received a number of replies, both here on the list and off-list as well. Ideally, the "lucky" person should have both a good server situation (which only some respondents have) and a strong interest in developing the currently stagnant FAQ (which only some respondents have). I find myself in the awkward position of trying to decide which person to send the zipped-up FAQ to for maintaining it, while knowing that: 1. I am bound to disappoint some of the volunteers. (Sorry!) 2. It may not be proper for me alone to make this decision (since I think that the FAQ really is community property - it certainly is NOT my property). Well, I'm just waiting a bit longer for replies to a couple of follow-up questions... Fred - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
