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Index of Subjects On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 aa935@chebucto.ns.ca wrote: > For your information, attached is a document outlining the philosophy regarding > the fee structure. Your comments or suggestions are welcomed. > http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa935/final.htm A couple of technical questions (so we can start implementing these sometime soon): If Basic IP Membership is $50/yr, does that mean VDN hosting is really $100 + $50 = $150? Is PPP service really an IP service? Right now it's just a service offered to sustaining members. A PPP account doesn't necessarily have to be associated with a user account (we can name it after an IP group) but it would make it easier. I'm not sure how this applies wrt group usage of the PPP account. VDN for $100/yr sounds good. At the moment it takes roughly five to ten minutes of techteam time to set up a site (plus about two minutes in Victoria). If we put in the effort needed to automate it, we could likely bring that down to 30 seconds (go to IP admin page, check "VDN", type in domain.ns.ca, hit "Submit") and the techteam wouldn't be manually involved. Additional email accounts for $50/yr doesn't sound good, unless we're assigning them a ton of quota. I remember looking at NSTN's prices over five years ago and thinking an one-time fee of $50 for a custom name was unreasonable. Today I think the going rate is somewhere between $0.99-$5/yr. Supporting multiple email accounts will likely mean either rewriting the family membership functionality to support adding a user to a membership after the initial payment date (this needs to be done anyway), and registering the new email account as a new user with membership paid for by IPE1, or using a separate database of secondary email accounts. The latter will probably be best since it eliminates the need to register a name, address, phone number etc. for each account. If we give all secondary email accounts the same numerical unix UID as the primary account, they can share their filespace (mail quota). Michael
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