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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 07:23:27 BST, Post Subject: DDR:uk's Server Donation Drive 2006! |
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After holding this off for months and months, with the recent server outage, I thought it is time to bring this up.
DDR:uk needs your help!
Situation: The server had a slight hardware failure over the past few weeks, nothing bad, however, it happens again and again, and it has got to the point where I lost almost a day's worth of time with the server, cutting everyone of for over 24 hours. However it has gotten worse now. Currently the server is running stable, however there could be an outage at any point which could mean I am without server for good. I am making constant backup's of the server which is putting a major strain on the bandwidth, as it is 36GB of data to back up. Doing that daily is actually going to fry my bandwidth. I tried using backup programs, but because of the mess that the kernel is in at the moment, not many programs are actually working.
Proposal: I have started a new job, working for a hosting company. They have offered me a major reduction in costs of the server, plus all these fancy bonuses to keep the server running. Oh and I would become my own customer, so if anything goes wrong, well that would mean I call up myself and get it fixed! Due to the current way the server is, I am looking to do a major overhall of the server, upgrade it to cope with the growth of this website and the others. So what I would like to do is to buy The Faereal Network its own server. A really powerful one that would last the the network and this website many years, and have a waranty that is back in date so that hardware failures will actually be easy to manage.
Cost: The new server will cost £1577.00. This will include, the following:
Xeon Processor 3Ghz, 1GB ram, 4x 76gb HDD in Raid 10, rack space for the server, management of the server, future upgrades, slightly faster connection and an almost non existant monthly server cost!
Offer: I am looking for people to donate, see if we can get this up and running asap. Anyone that donates for the server will gain themselves 10CP. -- Ok people are not interested in CP, however the person that donates the most over the next week will gain themselves a free t-shirt and life time subscription to the website. Plus I'll get the points redemption on the shop working in the mean time (so you can redeam your CP against money off for the shop - for some of you that would mean free stuff from the shop!).
Please give anything you can, it would be really appreciated. - For those donating towards the server, please make a note in the donation that this is for the server, so I can put it in the right place, and also credit you accordingly.
Thank you for your time.
Colin
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 11:29:20 BST, Post Subject: |
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I am gonna sound like such a smegging n00b now, but how do I donate here?
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Myst
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 11:33:31 BST, Post Subject: |
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Click here
At the bottom of the main menu too there are two donate buttons.
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 12:11:15 BST, Post Subject: |
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Ok people are not interested in CP
You would be surprised XD
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 12:19:27 BST, Post Subject: |
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Originally posted by: Paypal
You've sent a secure payment of £50.00 GBP to Faereal through PayPal.
Good Luck! 
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 13:24:50 BST, Post Subject: |
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i have £4 sitting in my paypal account that i cant withdraw, and about £1 in my bank account, so i can donate a fiver for now.
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 18:03:14 BST, Post Subject: |
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Me a little poor, but I can provide £7 to help get your started on this.
May donate a bit more, if im generously paid.
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 19:57:19 BST, Post Subject: |
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Student Budget allowed a small donation, depending on when I get paid we'll see what I can do.
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 21:48:03 BST, Post Subject: |
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Yeah... I might donate but I don't know when. I'm busy this summer and will not get to donate til September of this year.
I'm also saving up for my own server.
Yeah... I will see if I have time or the money to donate sometime Next month. If not, then sorry... But I really want free stuff from the shop store hehe.
Good Luck... Btw that's the same Server I'm saving up for hehe.
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Posted: Thursday 22nd June 2006 21:52:04 BST, Post Subject: |
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After years of working at Tesco, ive releasied that every little helps! So if you are not donating because you think donating a fiver wont make a difference, if 100 of you donate a fiver, we are a third of the way there!
Ideally, we want 10p for everytime Col make a revolution in the gif below! So get to it!
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