[Imc-finance] Proposal for funds: Request for Indymedia Network Server Expenses

[Scott]

IMC-Finance:

Server Expense Request:                                 $1500USD
Decision Deadline:				 April 21, 2003

Summary:

	$1500 to help the Vancouver/Victoria/Alberta/Volunteer IMCs to help cover costs
for two servers which host several IMCs, Active2, and streaming media.



This is a proposal to ask for funds to help maintain a couple
of the servers that benefit the network. The Vancouver Indymedia
collective has been providing support for three servers; namely,
ender.indymedia.org, hiro.indymedia.org and shiva.indymedia.org which
comprise the western Canadian indymedia infrastructure and have hosted
Vancouver, Victoria, Alberta and Volunteer for almost 3 years. Currently, we need
financial support to help maintain this infrastructure.

Our costs rose sharply last summer (G8) when we moved from a flat-rate
DSL connection into a high-speed colo and began being charged for
bandwidth.

The web and mail server, Ender, and the streaming media server, Shiva,
are both located in a colo with bandwidth costs of $6CDN per GB; our
last two bills were approximately $800CDN each with bandwidth usage 
primarily for the indymedia sites (Indymedia usage is approximately 80%
of this). 

We are asking for $1500.00USD if it is available to help cover the last
two months and for the next two months. It is our hope that these costs
will be sharply reduced once mirroring on paranode is working.
If you have any questions or concerns please don't hesitate to contact
me at humble@monkeywrenchcafe.org

Regards,

Scott
Vancouver Indymedia


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