Laura, FYI - we never received anything.

I'd rather go with Kristen and Monique because they're friends, and I'd rather we give our money to someone we love and trust than to someone we just trust, or we just hope we can trust.

(That's my two cents, which is, in tech speak, rather worse for rate of exchange than the yen to the dollar.)

I vote we go with FanGeek too, both because we know and trust Kristen and because it looks like enough people will be taking up the hosting offer that our costs will be significantly reduced in the long run. Also, the idea of "Buffista hosting" (if we can brand it that way!) is just a financial model I really like; it gives people a way of contributing while also getting something for themselves. I'd take it up myself if I wanted hosting (as I may some time in the future).

The board, she is funny, and I like her, because she gets that time is relative.

Plei ( Cindy "Natter 17 = 4² - cos(π): Nilly — Could This Be Mathier?" Oct 26, 2003 1:42:11 am PST ) posted before I woke, this morning. Now, obviously, Plei's post must have been submitted at the 1:51 that happened before the time change, because it was about 4ish, Eastern (with time change taken into account), when I came to the board, yet the post was already there. Also? We're sharing post numbers.

Then I posted, and the board looked at the time, and inserted my post ( Cindy "Natter 17 = 4² - cos(π): Nilly — Could This Be Mathier?" Oct 26, 2003 1:42:11 am PST ) before Plei's, even though Plei's post existed about 50 minutes before mine.

I don't think it's a problem, per se; I just think it's an innovative way of handling the time change. I wonder if I post again before we get to 1:51 board time, what will happen.

Laura, FYI - we never received anything

It got kicked back. I sent a message to support at fangeek dot com. I just sent it again with the errors included. I'm not on my own computer, so if it gets kicked back again I'll just wait until I am home.

Also, what Angus said.

eta: yeah kicked back again, administrative prohibition. Maybe has to do with the system I am on at the moment. later...

So, is the verdict Fangeek?

I vote FanGeek.

And may have a site to defray costs, too. But not yet.

Basically, what Raquel said:

1) I will contribute money.

2) I will contribute non-monetary compensation in the form of paintings, comics, brownies, toys or whatever to the Geekies.

3) If the offer from FG allows us to resolve the MySQL connections problem, let's stay.

4) I could move a site to FG, if it would help.

5) If we have to leave FG, we pay for what we've already received.

Except w/ #4, I'm looking to build my own site, and would go with FG as the host once I get around to it.

Everything that Anne W. says -- most strongly on #5.

(Once I get my Body Swap story done, I'll need a site to put it on, along with some of my other Due South short fics. Which would be a minimal use, but I'd like a site that doesn't point back to my real name.)

I'm seconding, but not that enthusiastically that it need to be said twice....