[Wally]

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

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.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

So how do we donate?

[Bird]

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.

[Wally]

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

[Guybrush Threepwood]

So just to make sure I don't send a million dollars to someone else, your Paypal email is mastersonwally (at)

.com.au?

[marty]

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.

[Gratulin]

Perhaps you should delete the email address so Wally doesn't get spammed by every bot in the interverse?

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Perhaps you should delete the email address so Wally doesn't get spammed by every bot in the interverse?

Fixed, hopefully enough.

[Wally]

No au.

[Freezer]

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 . .

[Guybrush Threepwood]

So is what you are saying Bird that the league would have it's own website instead of piggy-backing off XGN?

[Bird]

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.

[Wally]

I've certainly seen often errors about server errors, database unavailable and what not.

[PC49NZ]

Ok, so to sum up where to we send a donation to?
Jim.

[Wally]

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