We have several offers to host the static pages.  That's not hard, any of us with a broadband connection could do it.  That does leave us with a single point  of failure if we lose the person providing it.  The same goes with the system being as close to a box-stock Debian server - if the maintainer vanishes that's a lot easier for a new person to understand and recover.

 

We do need the ability to send email via smtp, and that needs to come from a commercial, not residential address.  

 

There may also be an issue with the volume of malicious connection attempts, I don't know if that would be significant to a provider.

 

It would also be nice to have a local provider, just to promote the concept of a Kansas City site/service.  With that setup we could easily host a podcast with archives as well.