Re: [gugmasters] getting a domain of srilanaka.gnome.org

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 04/19/2011 10:37 PM, Christian Rose wrote:
> 2011/4/19 Danishka Navin<danishka gmail com>:
> [...]
> > >  what i try to say is if you really have an issue with supporting us by
> > >  creating the subdomain and giving some space
> > >  the only solution is to create a basic blog at some where else.
> There seems to be some fundamental misunderstanding going on here.
>
> Most existing local community sites, to the best of my knowledge, use
> some other ISP, and use a LL.gnome.org subdomain (language code) or
> gnome.CC (country code) domain to point to that ISP. I.e. nothing is
> hosted on GNOME servers, the GNOME domain just points to it, wherever
> it is hosted.

I'll second what Christian said and would strongly recommend to find 
your own hosting in Sri Lanka. That's what I do whenever possible and it 
has several benefits:
- you can do decide what CMS you use and have all the flexibility to 
change whenever you want
- you get to involve some local companies to sponsor you, be it a 
hosting company from Sri Lanka (which in turn can provide speakers at 
specific occasion) or any other type of business/"rich" individual. 
Shared hosting in the US cost between $30 and $50 a year and would 
definitely suit you. $50 is nothing for a business.
- by maintaining your own site, you get to learn some extra skills which 
might turn out to be useful later.

Well I hope this will be helpful in your community building.

Fred