FN-FORUM: Call for help!! (Co-location hosting)

date posted 8th October 2007 12:22

Hi,

I had some success with finding a Linux admin on the second try so I
thought I'd send this one again as well.

I did have one response but when I responded to the response I didn't
get a response...

> I'm hoping there's someone out there who can help us out...
>
> After three years of generous support for ippimail.com, the outfit
> who has been hosting our server is asking us to stop being tight
> gits and start coughing up some readies each month.
>
> I really want every penny we raise to go to Open Source and good
> causes so I thought I might see if anyone out there knows anyone
> who might be able to help us by sponsoring our co-lo hosting.
>
> The site in question is www.ippimail.com . We have modest needs: A
> one U slot in a rack and a space to drop a tiny Cisco firewall, we
> don't use a huge amount of bandwidth each month.
>
> **Reliability and speed is paramount however** If you aren't a
> million miles from central London, (or at least north of London)
> that would be a bonus. This isn't *that* important though...
>
> In return we can offer a link from our front page to you and an
> opportunity to show off your reliability to the OS crowd as well as
> our charities. We have masses of incoming links from very busy
> sites so just the link on the front page must we worth quite a bit
> in terms of Google rankings.
>
> A warm fuzzy feeling of doing a good thing is also part of the
> deal. ;-)
>
> Let me know if anyone is interested or if you know anyone who might
> be interested. Off list perhaps.

Thanks!

Simon

Simon Martin

Email and shopping with the feelgood factor!
55% of income to good causes. http://www.ippimail.com