Thank you, Mike/Dino......You are "right on" with these statements regarding this issue. I will speak for myself (but strongly believe the other candidates feel the same way.) Wanting the BEST for MNGenWeb is at the TOP LINE of my candidate agenda, with this issue of funding/changes to url much later on the list. That is not to say it can never be considered at some point later. No matter how this election turns out, I am looking forward to a long tenure with MNGenWeb. Keeping an open mind, Linda Ziemann, SC Candidate & Rock CC On 2/6/15, 12:11 PM, "Mike Peterson via (Dino)" <[email protected]> wrote: > I¹ve had super great service and up time with StartLogic, Fat Cow, and Go > Daddy at about $100/year each but I would have questions if these prices would > hold based on the large capacity Minnesota would have and I question other > things like access and security. However, most of all, I don¹t think this > issue has a bearing on the election at all. It was a low priority for the > candidate who mentioned it and it would be way on down the line for the > coordinators to think about it. Mike Clay Co From: Martha A Crosley Graham > via Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 9:53 AM To: Timothy Stowell ; > [email protected] Subject: Re: [MNGEN] SC Election -funding Thank you Tim > for your comments. Here in CA we pay for domain and hosting through > donations. Right now we are hosted on HostMonster and have been for many > years. County Coordinators contribute as they are able. We try to get enough > funds to pay for 3 years at a time which is the least expensive cost. For > instance: Blue Host offers a year of hosting for 3.95 per month x 12 = 47.40 > [year] divided by 87 counties = .54 cents per County. Martha > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

As a veteran of the usgenweb.org web site, it was honestly a nightmare hosting MTGW on that server. That server space had been paid for many years by an anonymous donor but hacked many times by Chinese hackers. I have paid for the domain name for many years and just recently turned it over to the SC. Domain alone at the original domain company was 25 bucks a year. Got it moved to Go Daddy and other than the recent one year for $10, it has been normally 24.99 for three years. As far as a domain host, I would ask to see what IAGenWeb is on but that hosting service is a work horse and quite reasonable for the gigs we have on the site. All 99 counties, Gravestone Photo Project with over 1 million gravestone photos, our own boards for queries, obits, docs and bios, and many large special projects. I don't think that MNGenWeb needs that much space but it seems pretty inexpensive. One thing about having your own server is you need a tech team unless you want to pull your hair out. Two of IAGW long time CCs serve in that capacity and I can think of only one 24 hour period the server was offline due to maxed out capacity with the hardware. Food for thought for the future. Karen Becker, Todd and Stearns On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Linda Ziemann via <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Mike/Dino......You are "right on" with these statements > regarding > this issue. I will speak for myself (but strongly believe the other > candidates feel the same way.) > > Wanting the BEST for MNGenWeb is at the TOP LINE of my candidate agenda, > with this issue of funding/changes to url much later on the list. That is > not to say it can never be considered at some point later. > > No matter how this election turns out, I am looking forward to a long > tenure > with MNGenWeb. Keeping an open mind, Linda Ziemann, SC Candidate & Rock CC > > > On 2/6/15, 12:11 PM, "Mike Peterson via (Dino)" <[email protected]eb.com> > wrote: > > > I¹ve had super great service and up time with StartLogic, Fat Cow, and Go > > Daddy at about $100/year each but I would have questions if these prices > would > > hold based on the large capacity Minnesota would have and I question > other > > things like access and security. > However, most of all, I don¹t think this > > issue has a bearing on the election at all. It was a low priority for the > > candidate who mentioned it and it would be way on down the line for the > > coordinators to think about it. > Mike > Clay Co > > From: Martha A Crosley Graham > > via > Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 9:53 AM > To: Timothy Stowell ; > > [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MNGEN] SC Election -funding > > Thank you Tim > > for your comments. > > Here in CA we pay for domain and hosting through > > donations. > Right now we are hosted on HostMonster and have been for many > > years. > County Coordinators contribute as they are able. We try to get enough > > > funds to pay for 3 years at a time which is the least expensive cost. > > For > > instance: Blue Host offers a year of hosting for 3.95 per month x > 12 = 47.40 > > [year] divided by 87 counties = .54 cents per County. > > Martha > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > > email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an > > email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >