Re: [Dragora-users] reduce cost?

[Matías Fonzo]

El 2024-01-08 09:19, Matías Fonzo escribió:
> El 2024-01-08 00:51, Jing Luo via Dragora-users escribió:
> > On 2024-01-08 04:57, Tiberiu wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > La 07.01.2024 19:34, Antonio Diaz Diaz a scris:
> > > > Matías Fonzo wrote:
> > > > > [...]
> > >
> > > Perhaps FSF/GNU could feature a Dragora crowdfunding campaign in the 
> > > next months.
> >
> > This is a great idea.
> >
> > To Matías:
> >
> > Also, the paypal no-login donation doesn't work for me: I have credit 
> > cards in two countries (China and Japan), when I choose either of 
> > them, paypal says "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in 
> > this country"
>
> I ask, the PayPal no-login option from where?.  From what I understand 
> you need to be logged into paypal to operate it, am I wrong?.  I wonder 
> if this is a problem with PayPal or an outdated code from the Dragora 
> donation section.
>
> > On the other hand, I think I may be able to help reduce the cost. Is 
> > dragora.org costing much money? I can host it "pro gratis". I host 
> > repo.jing.rocks the mirror site (and other sites) using my home 
> > servers (in Japan), if you want, I can set up a few VMs and give you 
> > ssh access. I have many GBs of memory and TBs of storage available. If 
> > dragora's DNS server costs money, I can also set up name servers.
>
> This sounds very good!
>
> The renovation of the site is set for 2023-03-01.  I just checked and 
> the value in Argentinian pesos will be 40545.55(ARS), considering the 
> conversion to the CURRENT dollar value, it would come out:

I am sorry, I meant it is set for March 1st, 2024 (to be clear).

I also forgot to mention that I use email for this address, if this is 
not possible I would have no problem changing the address to my 
secondary email address hosted on riseup.net.

>     50 USD (rounded).
>
> 1 ARS = 0,00123113 USD
> 1 USD = 812,259 ARS
>
> With inflation in the country, it is expensive for us.
>
> My "only condition" would be that if you set up a server, I would not 
> want to maintain a web server (manually) because of the time it might 
> take to set it up and keep it up to date.  (I don't know how much time 
> I would have to do this.)
>
> If you already have a scheme set up, then I think there will be no 
> problem uploading the website there.  :-)
>
> Regarding DNS, they are provided by the hosting service.
>
> Thanks a lot!