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?)
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