Hi All,
We've had quite a few offers of hosting recently, so I thought I'd explain why we don't take them and give some suggestions on else people could do instead.
Firstly, we don't accept offers of hosting for the websites and repository of the project because we don't want to be beholden to anyone who could change their minds. It would likely cause significant disruption if we were to have the plug pulled on a donated server out of the blue!
One of the big problems with writing and maintaining something like Observium is that it's difficult to ensure that everything works after changes. As we refactor code and add new features, support for specific devices sometimes acquires bugs or simply stops working. So one of the things which would be helpful would be access to various kinds of devices to add to the http://demo.observium.org installation both to better advertise the features of Observium as well as making sure bugs are found more quickly.
For example, thanks to the SNMP access to a 7200 recently provided by Crosstel, we'll soon fix some bugs that left the Cisco MAC accounting feature broken since we switched to using MySQL memory tables for state. :)
Thanks, adam.
(also, don't forget to give us all of your cash because we are awesome, ok?)