[Stefan]

I dunno if any of you guys saw my last post in "The Network". It kinda covers this. Except my idea was more talored to hosting the DB, but it could be applied to the website. My idea was you would have mutiple comps accross the nation acting like mirros.. For a cheap start you can do that. With mirros you could have lets say 2 a region just for good measure. It could be maintained totaly via ftp servers. It would be best for everyone to have the same type of FTP server so that if something happens and somebody needs help its easy to TS it. Right now I use War Dameon FTP. Through FTP you would have an anaymous user for FIRST teams that would only have acces to the DB. Then Accounts for admins which would have access to htdocs folder in apache and whereever the DB is stored on the persons computer. You require some one to sync the DB's, but thats needed only during competition season. I would say the idea comp should have equilvant to or greator AMD XP 2000+ prcessor 512 MB RAM b/c of the fact the home users may be doing other intense stuff. But if it were just a file server then you don't need that.

Also, I have friend that has a hosting company. So like give me the specs of what you think you would need and I can ask him about the cost.