Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] several items concerning the archives.

glee@... wrote:

> There is a web forum software that I like. It is presently in use across
> the net. It is called vbulletin.
>
> I first found it through my involvement with FIRST Robotics. You can see it
> at http://www.chiefdelphi.com Here is a link to the vendor:
> http://www.vbulletin.com/
>
> It would probably only cost a few thousand dollars to set up a capable
> server with RAID, a fast CPU and this software. After the hardware, there
> is the cost of the software licenses (Less than $500 ) and the expertise to
> set it up. I am guessing that the company that does our linux work would
> probably charge reasonably to set this up. There may even be someone in the
> group that is doing this presently.
>
> As a business model, I would consider hosting the group or archive on a
> dedicated box and T1 however it would have to make financial sense

T1? We're not doing 10,000 picture downloads a day, here! Mailing out
about 100,000 emails a day, tops. I've got a Linux server with Apache HTTP
server and FTP running offf my home computer on a DSL line. I think
upgrading my DSL contract to the commercial version (I think that's $99.99
a month) would be all you need to put the list online. I didn't need any
Linux consultants to set it up, and there are no software licenses, either.

Jon