vorticity Wrote:Money isn't a real issue in running the wiki. We're somewhere in the range of $75 a month to run Miraheze, which is not that big of a deal to me personally. I could pay for that on my own. (At 2.3% interest, my student loans can wait.)No, they can't. Pay your debts before throwing any of your own money at this (or at least reduce your debt before you need to refinance at a higher interest rate). Don't put your credit rating at risk over a hobby. And as soon as you throw money at one option, you've burned your bridges for the other.
Bob and I can make things happen, even if we have to end up doing an Indiegogo campaign. (No coffee mugs as incentives, though.)
vorticity Wrote:There are advantages to owning, but for now the disadvantages are winning.
There are also advantages to time-sharing in a commercial datacentre. Let them buy the expensive hardware, and worry about depreciation and eventual replacement. If we can rent a virtual machine and enough SAN space, we'll likely save money in the long run.
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012