in reply to [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost

Have you considered approaching Pair Networks who donate the bandwith and hardware that runs Perl Monks?

I dare say there will be other hosting companies out there who would be willing to donate bandwith, as a project like yours would get used by a lot of perl developers, who will be in the market for a hosting company.

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Re^2: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Nov 24, 2010 at 12:45 UTC
    Have you considered approaching Pair Networks

    No ... but not a silly idea.
    OTOH, it could be deemed that they are already doing enough for perl.

    I did approach my ISP (Optus - who would probably be the second largest Telco in this member of the 3rd World Economy). All they could tell me was: 
    Optus do not provide any upgrades to the personal web space. If you wa
+nt to have a depositary for files, you could register your own domain
+ and host files on the web space provided. Alternatively, you could l
+ook at using free services such as live.com (25Gb), Dropbox (2Gb) and
+ others

    [download]
    "the web space provided" == 10Mb
    Far out !!

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      In addition to "the web space provided", don't forget to compare the allowed transfer volume (i.e. what you get without being charged extra). I don't know what volume you'd expect for a ppm repository, but I know from hosting images (jpgs) that as soon as people start to find something useful, this can add up quickly...
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        don't forget to compare the allowed transfer volume

        Good point. GreenGeeks advertises a bandwidth of 200,000 Mb per month, which IIUC should equate to ~20000 downloads of the largest of the perl binaries that I provide. (I don't think that the ppm packages that I provide are so popular as to exceed that value... but it'd be nice to be proven wrong about that :-)

        Cheers,
        Rob
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Re^2: [OT] Providing a Windows ppm repo at minimal cost
by chrestomanci (Priest) on Nov 25, 2010 at 09:33 UTC

    Replying to my own post.

    I think the key to trying to get a hosting provider to donate hardware and bandwith to your project is selling to them the idea that they are not donating to a charity, instead you are giving them an opportunity of cheap advertising to their target market.

    I dare say hosting companies get approached all the time by charities looking for free hosting, and if it is an animal hospital or suchlike, then the hosting company don't have much to gain other than their logo in the corner of a website which their target market don't visit.

    You project is different. People visiting your PPM repo are by definition perl developers, and a substantial fraction will be working on websites, and will need hosting. You need to convince the hosting company that your project will give them lots of sales leads.

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