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Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:25am

you can check the pricing at:

https://www.ning.com/pricing/

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:13am

Deleting inactive groups (no activity for years) is an option, but it is also deleting our history.

I do know that this website is indexed by www.archive.org, so the complete data is there too some way.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 2, 2021 at 6:11am

with 100 Gbyte they will ask 82 US$ a month.

The current archive is 321 Gbyte. SO quite expensive still.

Comment by Bradford on July 1, 2021 at 11:44pm

I just got a quote for 1TB of storage for $500 US / month.  That's more than 12 times as much as we're paying now.  Don't know if there's enough in donations to support that level although I'd be willing to contribute monthly.

Comment by Heleen de Vaan on July 1, 2021 at 10:34pm

It depends on how much more it will cost (what will be the >150GB price?) and if it indeed is far too high, it will depend on what we all want to keep for future generations.
A question which might help us choosing whether (and if yes, what) to clean up is 'why would we keep things, and when/why not?'.

Personally I see this IUOMA site as both a social network and a museum / mail art archive.

To my opinion themed groups should stay, as they are archives in themselves (thinking of the Brain Cell group, Mail Art history, rubber stamps, blue roads, and of course this group, which will be part of mail art history, too). And member's photo albums and blogs about received / sent mail. Also the accounts of dear fellow mail artists who passed away, to my opinion must be cherished. 

But what to delete? It would be hard to choose. Accounts of people who once registered but since then never showed up? Small talk (short 'thank you' notes and so) on our own pages? Though I guess deleting some text won't help that much: most MB's and GB's might exist of photos of mail art work, which, well, must stay alive in the IUOMA archives..

Comment by Bradford on July 1, 2021 at 8:43pm

Well, it was just over 500 Euros/year so what is the new rate?

Comment by Mim Golub Scalin on July 1, 2021 at 5:58pm

When you say looks at archives, would this be inactive members, inactive groups? What needs to be reduced in terms of size? Would an annual subscription be possible but with “sponsored” subscriptions where those who can’t afford it would get help?

Comment by Ruud Janssen on July 1, 2021 at 5:25pm

This NING group has been growing a lot, and now the volume is about 150 Gbyte.

With the current pricing of NING networks we are above the allowed limits and that means we would need a higher subscription with a much higher price. So I am confronted with the fact I have to clean up the archives or look for more money to pay a higher bill.

Currently donations keep it possible to keep thins hosted for the current pricing. The new pricing is just too high to keep things working with donations.

So there is a problem to solve, and I need to know the ideas of the IUOMA members on NING what the next step should be.

Comment by Ruud Janssen on May 8, 2021 at 6:17am

Some more donations came in the last months, so 2021 is completely covered for paying hosting IUOMA now. Thank you so much!

Comment by Ruud Janssen on December 10, 2020 at 5:50am

Some more lovely donations arrived and I want to thank all those who believe in this IUOMA platform and keep it alive and well!

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