Whats the brilliant business plan?
There is none. I just thought it was a good idea. • Who pays for it, then? The hardware was paid for by my employer and me, and the network connectivity is also supplied by my employer. I’m now experimenting with Google AdWords to help defray the hardware costs. If it turns out that that’s no significant source of income, I’ll remove the ads again. • Does your bandwidth suck? Not really. First of all, Gmane isn’t a bandwidth hog — it’s just text and no images. And we have 10Mbps connections to the world and 100Mbps connections to the ISPs we peer with. Gmane is in Norway, though, so your latency may vary. • The hardware, then? There’s now five machines in the Gmane server farm doing various things. Gmane definitely could use more nifty hardware. If you wish to give us some, please write to sponsor
