New Host Solicitations

I have received a few responces from people asking to save 'ZRN. If someone is willing to host us, that would be great. The host would have to be able to provide the following:

Host Requirements
1) A Linux server. A shared server is fine.
- A shared server is fine as our CPU load load is low
- (All of our music is pre-encoded.)
2) 10 GB of server diskspace
3) At least 320kbps constant bandwidth. (That's 100GBytes of traffic a month.)

Other Options
Some people have asked if we could negotiate a deal with out current host ZTNET. As Green Yoshi said in his post, ZTNET has hosted us for nearly 9 years for free. They did so because they could afford to do so. Well, they no longer can. The story is this: the ZTNET network is no longer drawing anything financially. (The dot com days are long over, and their other ventures have lives their life cycles.) ZTNET will still be around, but will only exist as a hobby server. In other words, everything that they host is now coming out of pocket.

While ZTNET has agreed to continue to host Emulationzone.org and all it's classic sites, they need to keep costs down. In short, they want to cut total monthly bandwidth down to 1Mbps average. 'ZRN's traffic consumption is not helping matters and is thus a prime target for elimination.

Ya, we could perhaps work out a deal, but let's be honest: it would be messy, difficult to enforce, and is just something we really don't want to deal with. So with that, as far as fund raisers are concerned, I suppose we could do that, but the money rasied would have to be applied towards a new host. And I would have to ask that someone else be in charge of the fundraising.

If you are interested in hosting us, or know someone that could, please get in touch with me at wacko413 att hotmail d0t com