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Dig Deep! Help Sneezy!

Author: Mark Charette, Webmaster
Date: 2000-10-12 15:27

If you enjoy using the services on Sneezy, please consider contributing. last time the Klarinet mailing list people came up with $5000 in 2 months - maybe this time the BBoarders can shoulder part of the burden.

Did you know that Stan Geidel's Online Clarinet Resource and the Woodwind Fingering Guide are provided space and resources on Sneezy for free? (http://www.ocr.sneezy.org / http://www.wfg.sneezy.org)

Nothing is free - it currently costs between $2000 and $3000/year in cold, hard cash to keep Sneezy and associated services going, and our Sponsors and Web hosting just about cover that. I have to supply my own high-speed Internet connection and line, however, is going to more than double the annual costs with an additional $4500. I've been able to use a T1 line for free for the last two years, but a change in management at the sponsoring host has made it imperative that I get this new connection.

A breakdown of the $4500 needed to keep the site going another year:

Business DSL line + installation: $3800.00
UPS for 3 machines w/ remote
administration: : $ 600.00
Electricity (est)/yr : $1200.00
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$5600.00

Which means that $1100.00 will (hopefully) be made up from new sponsors.
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Why can't I use one of those free sites for Sneezy?

A couple of easy answers:

1) Sneezy sends out an average of 1GB of data/day! No "freebie" sites will do that, and most small business sites only allow 1GB/mo before they make you move to an expensive setup.

2) Sneezy (the web site only) takes up about 1.7Gb of disk space right now - and it grows daily.

3) I'd not be able to control and administer the site nearly as well as I can today.

Thank you for your continued support.

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