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Donations
It's the new year, and I thought I'd take a few moments to thank everyone for their donations last year. They really help pay for the server and keep the community alive.

For those of you who haven't noticed the banner at the top of the forum pages, our server costs around $125 a month to run. This might sound expensive, but plenty of us remember multiple occasions years ago when our cheap hosting couldn't cope with the amount of traffic, and we had to close the forums down for a few days whilst they migrated to better hosts.

Running a heavily dynamic site such as this one takes a lot of CPU power, and we decided to rent a dedicated server which we could grow into rather than constantly replace it every year or so. This year, I may migrate the forums over to the Amazon Cloud, which would probably end up costing us less overall, and we can swap machines in and out easily without much downtime. Until then, we are faced with the $125 bill every month.

These forums are free to use, and they will remain that way as long as I'm "at the helm" so to speak. We tried adverts out a few times, but they never stuck and got annoying after a while. It is also worth mentioning that the staff team (without whom the forum would not run smoothly at all) are made up entirely of volunteers; they are not paid in any way, even though what they do is often complicated and requires a lot of patience.

We don't get close to $125 a month in donations, so whatever is left over I make up out of my own pocket. If you feel that you can donate an amount, however small it may be, it would be most appreciated. To donate, please PM me for PayPal details (or our Bitcoin address). We can also look into other payment options as I understand not everyone likes using PayPal.

Thanks, and Happy New Year!

- Tiberius
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Messages In This Thread
Donations - by Tiberius - January 6, 2015 at 10:30 pm
RE: Donations - by robvalue - January 7, 2015 at 2:00 am
RE: Donations - by Violet - January 7, 2015 at 2:04 am
RE: Donations - by downbeatplumb - January 12, 2015 at 2:50 pm
RE: Donations - by Violet - January 12, 2015 at 4:30 pm
RE: Donations - by Cinjin - January 12, 2015 at 12:51 pm
RE: Donations - by Jenny A - January 12, 2015 at 2:56 pm
RE: Donations - by StuW - January 12, 2015 at 4:18 pm
RE: Donations - by Cyberman - January 12, 2015 at 4:29 pm
RE: Donations - by vorlon13 - January 12, 2015 at 4:59 pm
RE: Donations - by Violet - January 12, 2015 at 10:05 pm
RE: Donations - by abaris - January 12, 2015 at 5:10 pm
RE: Donations - by Jackalope - January 12, 2015 at 8:09 pm

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