Wetlook World Forum

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Some people get a good deal. Some people get a raw deal. At The Mothership prices, you EXPECT to get a good deal and as I understand, you do. With all these $5-10/month high-traffic sites, reliability seems to be a gamble. The most recent gamble for WIR/LL/REG was Globat and amongst other stupidities, lost the entire WetInRed site at one stage. Not a good gamble.

The question is whether these gambles are worth continuing, at around $90 a year, or pay The Mothership $900/year for guaranteed reliable hosting.

The snag is that so far, I have not found a single suitable site where 100% of customers are happy. Customer satisfaction with the people who host my site -- 1 GB space, 20 GB traffic, is pretty much 100%, which is very rare. Is The Mothership a site that offers 100% satisfaction for larger-scale sites? Is that guarantee worth the price?

It comes down to this: each WIR member pays $100 and that is that. Globat hosting is ~$6/month, and most high-traffic sites are $6-$10/month. So each membership covers a whole year's hosting. I feel we should either drop the membership price to a fair sum that really represents the hosting costs, or keep the price the same and use The Mothership.

I am not in this for the money, although I cannot speak for Bob and, if he joins us, Tom. I have discussed this whole issue at length in a mail to Bob, Tom and Patrick at The Mothership, as well as in a private message with Graham.

Given my position alone, it's pretty much a matter of what all the future members want to pay for, and what recent members think we should do with their money. I'm not a businessman, I'm a nerd with no clue about the world, and as far as I am concerned, my job is to keep Steve's legacy going and nothing more. What do you think we should be doing about this?