Thursday, August 23, 2007  Money Is A Dirty Word  Stop and
think. Realize. Gain some insight. Reflect. And then?  What
comes next is up to you.  I applaud DearMYRTLE's blog post,
Genealogy sites at no cost to users? If you haven't read it yet,
please do. She's brought to light a very important issue, one
that nobody likes to talk about. It's about that dirty word
"money"... and the fact that there's no such thing as free
lunch. Or in this case, a free web site.  We all like it when we
can freely access genealogy databases online. What's not to
like? But most of us don't stop to think about the fact that
somebody is shelling out bucks to host the web site that
database is on. And the bigger the database, and the more
popular it is, the more money is getting spent to host it.
Because when lots of people access it the owners have to pay for
more bandwidth. And bandwidth = $  As Myrtle's article shows us,
it's not just the big players who have to shoulder heavy costs
for maintaining online databases. Small geneal