If it comes to it, I can afford to pay for it and collect donations afterwards.

I guess what we need first is someone to compile a comparison of the hosts suggested so far that meet the requirements to help decide which is the best option.
( I'd have volunteered to do so, but I'm going to be otherwise occupied for the evening. :'( )

[edit] if PB can afford to pay upfront and sort it out later, that might work better (cos I can't afford that)

eHosting eV Silver

Disk space: 20GB
Traffic: 150GB / month
Min memory: 384MB
Burstable memroy: 1024MB
CPU: weight 1000 ( :? )
Price: £28.78 / month = £345.31 / year

Notes: Poor or no support. I also wonder whether we only get Plesk if we pay an extra £5 a month, or if that's just for the extra 100 licences. Also, I've taken 'taxes where applicable' to be 17.5%. Is that right? Seems to be, going by InterHost

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InterHost Plesk VPS 25

Disk space: 25GB
Traffic: 97.7GB / month
Min memory: 384MB
Burstable memroy: Unknown
CPU: Unknown
Price: £34.06 / month OR £340.63 / year

Notes: None.

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1and1 Business

Disk space: 10GB
Traffic: 200GB / month
Min memory: Unknown
Burstable memroy: Unknown
CPU: Unknown
Price: £264.24 / year

Notes: No root access! Apparently no way to pay for trial month, or owt.

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EuroVPS (here)

Disk space: 10GB
Traffic: Enough
Min memory: 512MB
Burstable memroy: Possibly 2048MB
CPU: Unknown
Price: £409.07 / year

Notes: It works.

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I think that's it? To my mind, that makes it between Interhost and EuroVPS. Is £70 worth peace of mind and a minimum of effort? I suppose that's what we have to decide.

If It's only £70 difference we may as well stay here.

Aye, that would have been my vote, if the poll hadn't ended.

just in case anyone though I meant it ...

Ok, Patch has transfered the EuroVPS account across to me, and it looks like the consensus is to stay with them?

If I haven't heard otherwise by Thursday/Friday, I'll assume that to be the case and process the renewal and we can work out payments and stuff.

You will be collecting donations then? PM your address?

Yep. My intention is to see if I can setup a charity/community bank account and put them direct in that.
Going to check with my bank tomorrow to see if that's a: easy and b: free, and if so I'll do it that way, but if not I'll give people my regular bank details and keep a log of everything instead.

pm'd

That's a good idea. Should be fairly easy to set up a treasurer account for that purpose. Should be either free or very cheap.

Wow, we're a real community!!

I shall donate my £10 soon enough. One issue, since this hasn't been sorted yet, I won't be able to do it online. I'll have to send it in the post, much to Patch's annoyance last time!

if we do that, we should think about who the signatories should be.

 

i'd imagine we'd need more than one, it'd make sense to have more than 1, in case someone goes awol?

I will happily donate to this wonderful cause!

 

Where shall I send the wonga?

Well I'm not planning to go AWOL, but yeah redundancy is good.

I was thinking maybe Trig and Simon?

Not for some of us.



I think we've had enough potato talk and Dragon Porn.

Maybe some potato porn and Dragon talk would liven this place a bit.

Dragons are cool, but I'll let you do the potatoes. :P

How much do we need to raise then?

 

We should have a sticky donations thread, just so we can see how much people are sending and how much we need to go, It can be annonymous if possible if people are bothered about that, since not everyone has spare cash or can afford bugger all.

 

If who ever is collecting posts or PM's their banks account # and Sort code I'll send some money their way when I get home from work.

Aye, post the details and I'll do my bit.

Ditto.