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[Nic Bellamy]

Joel van Velden wrote:
>> After the recent unpleasantness, we have moved away from contra deals
>> with local providers to host our server and purchased a commercial
>> virtual server in the US. This means our operating costs have increased.
>>     
>
> <snip>
> Is this really necessary? Is there no-body else willing to host the box in
> nz?
> To my knowledge all the box would do is host ten reasonably low traffic
> mailman mailing lists and a small website. I can't see how it would be
> difficult to find a host.
> >From a personal point of view i would *much* rather keep linux.net.NZ
> inside nz.
>   
So would I, however the two recent issues (hardware failure + 
compromise) have shown the usefulness of paying money to someone: you 
get to yell at them until they fix it.

You can't do that with donated hosting, and paid hosting in NZ is an 
order of magnitude or two higher than in the US...

Cheers,
    Nic.

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Nic Bellamy <nic at bellamy.co.nz>