Looking to Move from EV1?

IgD asks: "Our small company has been a customer of EV1 for well over a year. We have a single dedicated server (a Red Hat box) and pay about $150/month. We get about 400 gigabytes per month for our bandwidth limit. Up until the SCO fiasco, we had been generally pleased with EV1. For obvious reasons we decided to move on. We didn't make the decision lightly. Migrating our server is going to result in a terrible inconvenience. The subject of EV1 and SCO has been covered in multiple articles here on Slashdot. Many have discussed moving to other providers such as ServerMatrix.com and ServerBeach.com. Dear Slashdot, where should we take our business?"

Comments

how about any host that donates space to oss?

[avi33]

Shouldn't be hard, pick a open issues site and see who hosts them? That's part of the reason some of them do it, for exposure, good karma, brand awareness, etc.

And this sends what message?

[SmallFurryCreature]

I can just see this at board meetings:

Underling: "Oh yeah we got a lot of complaints about our decision to do X"

CEO: "Are they leaving? Refusing to pay? Looking at alternatives?"

Underling: "No"

CEO: "Then stop wasting my time".

Voting with your wallet. You are voting in favor. I can't really see any differently. Sending emails to them is like saying you hate bush but still vote for him. Your opinion don't count. Granted neither does mine as I am not a customer at all :)

Re:Typical Reply

[Rick the Red]

EV1 paid 'protection' money to extortionists. Now the other extortionists will ooze out from under their rocks and try to hit up EV1 for a quick buck. Plus, protection money is never a one-time payment. Before long EV1 will have to raise their rates, either to cover this ever-increasing cost or to hire lawyers -- or both.

BTW, when you voiced your disappointment, what was EV1's reply?

Re:Typical Reply

[El]

No, a boycott of their services is totally appropriate. Nothing gets a companies attention faster than a loss on their bottom line. Having the few companies for whom this is an important issue change vendors sends a clear and need message to others contemplating taking the easy way out and giving in to SCO's extortion demands. Ultimately everybody is worse off whenever anybody gives in, since it sends a message to criminals that extortion, kidnapping, terrorism, etc. actually works as a business model -- it wouldn't if all victims had the courage to fight for what is right.