On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Adam Farson wrote:
> This could be the "kiss of death" for eHam!
Subscription-based access to internet websites is always a failure unless
you have cornered the market on a very specific offering.
I work for a company that wrestles with this subject, with great pain I
might add, and it's tough enough to just get people to sign up for a free
account.
It'll be too bad if eham has to shut down due to lack of paying
subscribers but that's the Internet world.
Based on what I see about their site, they're colocated at Digex. So that
gives me the idea that they could be paying up to $2000 a month depending
on their contracted services (power redundancy, backups, multipathing,
etc.).
Seems like getting a $250 T1 at home would be a more cost-effective way to
host the site.
73 Jason N1SU
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