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TPU email addresses
Posted by regretfuldaydreamer [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 02:29:27 PM
What about getting an email system for @tpu.org going? maybe not. A random thought
Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 02:37:08 PM
Maybe if you want to pay for the bandwidth. =) There are people with @tpu.org e-mail addresses now, and we all pay for that as part of supporting this server in general. E-mail redirectors would be feasible, and possibly POP delivery if people don't try to leave things on the server forever, but giving either out to everyone would start costing us extra money if it got too popular.
Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 03:10:13 PM
Oooh oooh I want one!
Posted by Zandalf [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 03:11:30 PM
I think this is the point where psion puts a ridiculous price tag on the TPU email address
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 05:47:41 PM
Lets make a guess ... $20 no $40 ?
Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 06:05:09 PM
I believe that we could actually cover basic bandwidth costs with $5 - $10 USD a year...
I don't know...
Posted by vladimir_l [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 06:25:14 PM
I would actually pay $30 if I got @tpu.org e-mail and ssh2 shell. Wouldnt mind paying extra to help a good organisation. No honestly.
Posted by diegoeskryptic [send private reply] at July 22, 2002, 07:00:37 PM
Yeah ok......
Posted by DragonWolf [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 09:40:24 AM
Can you dish out sub-domains or something as well? or you got one of those name servers where you have to pay to add stuff?
Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 09:53:08 AM
We could indeed dish out sub-domains. That would probably mean even less bandwidth usage than e-mail redirection. $5 US for a year of service would definitely cover that. =)
Posted by regretfuldaydreamer [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 10:44:44 AM
Just out of interest, how much does bandwidth cost you a month, if you don't mind me being nosy.
Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 12:32:22 PM
$5/GB
Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 09:05:47 PM
Why not just run your own server and just pay for the domain name? Just build a cheap computer, set up apache on it and PHP and whatever else you need (that devlocus stuff) and put it on your cable connection.
Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 11:07:45 PM
CodeRed, that's how we used to do it. It wasn't really working, so we built a big juicy box, sent it off to a colocation facility, and had it hooked up to a big juicy connection.
Posted by unknown_lamer [send private reply] at July 23, 2002, 11:25:05 PM
$5/GB is reasonable. Tpu IIRC uses about that in a year (Psion told me how much tpu used in a month, but I forgot and now he won't tell me..so it may be 2 or 3GB per year, still reasonable). And as long as people who are being hosted on the server pay for their bandwidth and share the hardware costs...
Posted by Psion [send private reply] at July 24, 2002, 08:11:15 AM
CodeRed, there's also the small issue that running a server on a residential cable connection is generally illegal, according to most providers' terms of service. :P
Posted by RedX [send private reply] at July 24, 2002, 11:56:24 AM
Even a file sharing service like Kazaa isn't allowed by Pandora (my cable provider) although they aren't very strict on this as long as you don't use more than the 10Gb/month (2Gb upstream).
Posted by Zandalf [send private reply] at July 25, 2002, 02:08:35 AM
but psion, that's why you hook it up to CMU's juicy connection ^_^
oh, wait... they'd be the first people to step on you for doing that... but wouldn't they support something like TPU?
Posted by DragonWolf [send private reply] at July 25, 2002, 08:45:52 AM
Who are you buying rack space from? when I was looking for a good deal like 2/3 years ago I didn't find any for 5US per gb per month.
Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at July 25, 2002, 11:29:19 PM
Yeah, why not get carnegie mellon to sponsor TPU?
Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 26, 2002, 04:08:13 AM
Because this server is also being used for the personal pages of the owners of this server, which CMU would probably not feel too comfortable about hosting.
Posted by Zandalf [send private reply] at July 26, 2002, 06:44:05 PM
we keep hearing about these "personal pages" ... but I'm guessing from the fact that they are "personal" that we aren't supposed to know what they really are...
although, I'm having a hard time imagining @psion as a porn star 8-P
Posted by buzgub [send private reply] at July 26, 2002, 08:30:49 PM
zandalf, take a look at http://home.tpu.org/
Posted by unknown_lamer [send private reply] at July 26, 2002, 09:56:12 PM
http://unknownlamer.org (do a dig or host on it).
Posted by CodeRed [send private reply] at July 27, 2002, 12:41:13 AM
I am an astonishing people dammit, why aren't I on the list?
Posted by unknown_lamer [send private reply] at July 27, 2002, 01:27:48 AM
Because you suck. (I'm joking! Don't hurt me!). Hang out on irc.
Posted by Zandalf [send private reply] at July 27, 2002, 01:52:43 AM
arigatou, it's making much more sense now ^_^
Posted by gian [send private reply] at July 27, 2002, 03:24:30 PM
They are mostly virtually hosted domains or of the format http://home.tpu.org/~whoever/.
Codered, you're not astonishing because we can predict your behavioural patterns so easily!
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