[HCoop-Discuss] VPS hosting for HCoop

[Adam Chlipala]

Michael Potter wrote:
> It's not the paying so much as the new class of people who are 
> subservient to the board. To pay people enough would cost a lot, and 
> I'm not in favor of exploiting people by paying them too little. Also, 
> having employees is a whole new layer of complexity and could open the 
> co-op to liability.

You don't trust people to avoid accepting employment offers for too 
little pay?

> For what it's worth, my opinion is that VPSes might be worth it if the 
> costs will not go up too much, and I'd really only support getting the 
> service from another co-op like the Tech Co-op we already run the 
> outpost system from, or Cernio if they have the capacity these days.

Is this because you think the owners/employees of a for-profit business 
would be getting "exploited" by us, or do you have some other concern?