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Simulation Racing Leagues => Assetto Corsa => Australian Assetto Corsa League, Tuesday nights => Topic started by: Wally on April 12, 2015, 05:57:52 PM
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The Tuesday AC server costs me around about $15/month (it fluctuates with usage and exchange rates). I am giving you the opportunity to make VOLUNTARY donations to the server costs, via a GoFundMe donation using the link below.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/xgn-server-costs (https://www.gofundme.com/f/xgn-server-costs)
It's entirely voluntary - there is no pressure on anyone to donate or not. And there's no truth to the rumour that the more you pay, the more points you get on the ladder.
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So how do we donate?
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Actually the XGN site & domain costs a bit of money, too, not much, about $100/year if I'm correct. It's out of Brit's pocket.
We had an old paypal account (Brit set it up) to gather all donations - we could use that again, and share any money in to bear the costs.
If we're keen, we could bump the server onto Amazon - I'll do the work free - but that means a bit more extra cost again, so we'd probably have to bring the hat around occasionally. The server can cost about $8/mo computing only + traffic + storage (altho those are tiny) with one-year up front full payment.
On the plus side; reliability & accessibility would rise greatly.
But I'm really wondering if people are keen or not.
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So how do we donate?
If you have a PayPal account, you can send money to my email address at gmail, from within PayPal.
Here are PayPal's instructions:
https://www.paypal.com/au/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article/?solutionId=FAQ1684&m=HTQ
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So just to make sure I don't send a million dollars to someone else, your Paypal email is mastersonwally (at)
.com.au?
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So just to make sure I don't send a million dollars to someone else, your Paypal email is ---?
I can give you the account on master Wally's behalf, my server costs are $1000 a day so anyone willing to cover that will be exempt from the banlists for as many days as you fund the operation for.
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Perhaps you should delete the email address so Wally doesn't get spammed by every bot in the interverse?
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Perhaps you should delete the email address so Wally doesn't get spammed by every bot in the interverse?
Fixed, hopefully enough.
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No au.
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Actually the XGN site & domain costs a bit of money, too, not much, about $100/year if I'm correct. It's out of Brit's pocket.
We had an old paypal account (Brit set it up) to gather all donations - we could use that again, and share any money in to bear the costs.
If we're keen, we could bump the server onto Amazon - I'll do the work free - but that means a bit more extra cost again, so we'd probably have to bring the hat around occasionally. The server can cost about $8/mo computing only + traffic + storage (altho those are tiny) with one-year up front full payment.
On the plus side; reliability & accessibility would rise greatly.
But I'm really wondering if people are keen or not.
If such an upgrade is deemed worthwhile I think the cost is very reasonable split between the amount of people racing here . .
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So is what you are saying Bird that the league would have it's own website instead of piggy-backing off XGN?
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So is what you are saying Bird that the league would have it's own website instead of piggy-backing off XGN?
We're not piggy-backing; we're part of XGN. So the forum stays as it is.
What I'm saying is that we could host it - and other stuff, like the ts3 install I still haven't fully registered on a tiny amazon instance. They're perfect for a low traffic site and a few other not-too-intensive things.
eg I've chucked the old gt legends site up there for testing - and there's a ts3 server I'm going to properly configure at some point...heh.
http://ts3.xgn.com.au/
But the forums are still here. It's a free software so we could put it onto there no problems.
The benefit would be increased reliability. I'm not sure if you guys are noticing it, I certainly do; too often there's some problem, either the database server is down or some other mishap preventing us using the forums.
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I've certainly seen often errors about server errors, database unavailable and what not.
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Ok, so to sum up where to we send a donation to?
Jim.
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Ok, so to sum up where to we send a donation to?
Jim.
Via PayPal to masterson wally (no space) at Google's email. That's my anti spam measure ;)
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A pineapple to Wally :D
Thankyou!!
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Check your account Wally . . . a little top up!
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Thank you very much Freezer (and Stan)!
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Thank you Simone for your donation.
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Thank you for your donation! :)
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Thank you for your recent donation. :)
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Thank you for the server donation today :)
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Thank you too for your donation :)
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Thanks for another donation!
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Thank you for your donation :)
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Thank you very much Simone for your donation :)
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Simone, you bastard, you still haven't sent me strawberries, and you're pumping cash into Wally's coffer!
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Thank you Freezer for your donation :)
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Thank you AbleArcher for your generous donation!
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Simone, you bastard, you still haven't sent me strawberries, and you're pumping cash into Wally's coffer!
Hhahahahahahaa just saw this as my internet fell down again i had to replace 15 mt of tel cable.......but ye Bird its a pleasure to give wally a little help!! Bird please if you can stop over on my place i will give you some passion fruit !!!!!!! I am not growing starwbs anymore.
Anyway........Merry Christmas to everybody enjoy your family or whatever, really just ....enjoy!!!!
Simone
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Simone, you bastard, you still haven't sent me strawberries, and you're pumping cash into Wally's coffer!
Hhahahahahahaa just saw this as my internet fell down again i had to replace 15 mt of tel cable.......but ye Bird its a pleasure to give wally a little help!! Bird please if you can stop over on my place i will give you some passion fruit !!!!!!! I am not growing starwbs anymore.
Anyway........Merry Christmas to everybody enjoy your family or whatever, really just ....enjoy!!!!
Simone
I love passionfruit but as it's a long day's drive to your place, with great regret, I'll have to decline the opportunity for now. :)
It's very nice of you - and everyone else - to help running the show a bit here, thanks guys!
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Thank you Russ for your donation :)
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Thank you AB for your contribution!
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Thank you killagorilla for your donation!
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Thank you for your donation Simone :)
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Thanks Freezer for your server donation!
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Thank you Jarmel for your donation :)
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Thanks for your donation Brad!
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Thank you for the donation :)
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Thank you for your donation!
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Thank you Chris for your donation :)
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Thank you for your donation!