GunTalk archive at Xserve host?

[dZ]

heres a new place opening up on de web that looks like they could handle serving GunTalk audio files:
http://www.xserverack.com/index.php

and they are in Florida so Rich could trundle on over with a pointy stick if required
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XserveRack.com™ Introduces Mac® OS X-based hosting on Apple’s new Xserve™ server hardware

Focus on competitive pricing and offering resellers a way to increase profits; Customer pre-launch signup now happening.

ORLANDO, Florida – July 2, 2002 – On the heels of Apple’s announcement that they have begun shipping their new Xserve hardware, machinemen today announced XserveRack.com, a new
Mac OS X-based web hosting service using Apple’s new Xserve rack-mount server hardware. The hosting packages are designed to offer enterprise-level solutions on the Mac OS X platform,
and at the same time offer resellers the most competitive pricing in the industry.

“We thought it was time to do Mac OS X hosting the right way” said Bill Leonard, XserveRack.com’s Internet Systems Engineer. “There are plenty of excellent Mac hosts out there, but the
pricing isn’t really competitive with the rest of the hosting industry. We offer hosting on the platform they want, at a price competitive with any large hosting provider out there.” This has
been a big problem in the past for Mac web developers using FileMaker Pro, which is allowed only 50 databases per server. “It was cost prohibitive to do a large site with a FileMaker
backend, and host it at a commercial provider. With MySQL, all of those limitations are gone.”

XserveRack.com can not only accommodate Mac web developers who use industry standard PHP scripting language, but also Blue World’s Lasso 5 Professional – and soon ColdFusion MX - to
tie into MySQL database software to deploy dynamic web applications. “This allows our customers to develop on literally any platform they have at home or in their office – Linux, Windows,
UNIX or Mac – then simply upload the files, and they are ready to go.”

Currently XserveRack.com is offering an early signup program, which will qualify the customer for special pre-launch pricing and early notification of the service when it goes live.

“Besides the best hosting in the industry, we have many things planned that will benefit the Mac OS X community at large… all I can say right now is stay tuned, “ said Leonard.
XserveRack.com currently offers public discussion forums for the Mac web development community.

machinemen has been connecting databases to the Internet since 1994, and has been a leader in web application development. When they noticed a gaping hole in the market for the kind
of hosting support they needed, they created XserveRack.com

To sign up to qualify for special pre-launch pricing, visit the XserveRack.com web site at http://www.xserverack.com/

Contact:
Bill Leonard
[email protected]
407-464-0147

[Rich Lucibella]

DZ-
Problem I see is twofold:
1) Server Cost: A decent Os X server runs upwards of $4K. "Lease" it? You're still paying for it...with interest. There are no free lunches.
2) Bandwidth costs: The numbers you provided are staggering. 50MB per show. Call that x1,000 downloads X4 shows per month: 200GB per month. That's 5X the size of TFL! That's expensive!

I'm still into the idea, but there has got to be a better way.
Rich

[bastiat]

You know, something like the now-dead napster or gnutlella or whatever file-sharing service still exists would be a perfect application for this. Distributed bandwidth, a variety of service, and almost no cost to implement.

[dZ]

i wonder if advertising might offset the bandwidth costs
anything with that much demand must have marketability

if the web archive grabs a gunowners attention for 3 hours every week,
that a demographic with actual discretionary income for 1000 dollar impulse purchases

I signed up for prelaunch pricing
gotta see what the monthly fees will be for a streaming host

i might meet up with some NPR folkes this month & see the set up they run on