ubuntu-ca.org needs help!

[Corey Burger]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Mark Ueki Mina <themarker0 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> (ignore which message is quoted)
>
> I did some reading, we can host ourselves, we just need a canadian based
> VPS. I put an idea forward on the IRC months ago to get corporate sponsors
> to help pay for one. This was back when there was no talking lol. Though
> here, i found a cheap Xen based VPS. https://www.sevenl.net/
>
> We could get 128mb ram 10gb hdd and 50 bandwidth and webmin for 25 dollars a
> month. To pay we could either all donate, or better yet, go to a large
> company, (Tiger direct, Canada Computers) and at the footer add "Server
> proudly sponsored by XXXXXXXXXXX"

Yes, we could host it ourselves, but the challenge with that is that
then we have to make certain the person who admins it doesn't
disappear. The advantage of Canonical is that non-active people (ahem,
myself) can be bypassed easily.

Corey