Re: New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Conway [mailto:neilc(at)samurai(dot)com]
> Sent: 05 January 2003 22:38
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: Marc G. Fournier; pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [HACKERS] New Portal in Place, DNS switched ...
>
>
> On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 17:15, Dave Page wrote:
> > There were always ads there
>
> Yes -- but AFAIK there were in the process of being phased
> out (furthermore, the old site only had ads on the initial
> mirror page, whereas they are much more widespread on the new site).
>
> > they help pay for the boxes.
>
> Obviously, but it's VERY unprofessional for us to show ads to
> users on our website. It goes without saying, but pretty much
> every other non-trivial OSS project doesn't have ads on their
> main website. Displaying ads makes us look more like a
> Geocities site than a legitimate competitor to Oracle/DB2/etc.

Don't get me wrong, I personnally would prefer to remove them, however
unless we get suitable corporate sponsorship the servers still have to
be paid for somehow. Purely speculation, but I would guess that the ads
are not recouping all of the cash it costs hub.org to host the sites as
it is.

> In fact, there are several groups that provide free hosting
> for OSS projects, without requiring them to display ads on
> their webpages (e.g. SourceForge, Savannah, etc.)

You're surely not suggesting that the various postgresql.org servers and
everything they do could be moved onto free space supplied by
Sourceforge or similar? I don't think they'd want to host Gborg for us
:-)

Regards, Dave.