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Well I've tried to avoid it for almost 3 years now since we've been up. But we've been growing and growing fast.
You can look up the prices of dedicated servers and the net and to see what they cost. And those prices are in most cases for just hardware, don't include some required software and support services.
We are already on a pretty decent dedicated server.
As of recently our server has been pretty much constantly under small scale attack and occasionally under larger scale attacks. I've done what I could to restrain them and we are ok most of the time, only occasional server too busy when there is too much overload.
If attacks keep up or become stronger we might end up needing a hardware firewall or to hire some outside help, that means higher costs again. Hope it won't come to that though.
But regardless of current attacks more members we attract better server we need as traffic and load increase.
So if you find this site helpful, got money to spare and would like to help out you are welcome to donate
As for benefits of donating can't provide you with anything special but you'll be transferred to Donating Member user group and you'll have some higher limits like more PMs allowed to be stored, more images to be uploaded to our image hosting system, higher daily attachment download limit, access to Vip forum.
It is gonna take few days before donation is confirmed and you are transferred to donating member group.
Btw, donations will probably expire after few months, period will depend on the amount. Haven't really set any figures yet and I might not have time to revise those donations but just want to note that in case it does happen.
EDIT, ok let's add some figures for now, if you got any objections we can discuss them and possibly change.
5 EUR donation, expires in 2 months.
10 to 20 EUR donation expires in 3 to 5 months.
20+EUR expires in 5 or more months depending on amount.
Any amounts in between will be considered as next higher value as custom amounts can be used as well as those listed.
You can look up the prices of dedicated servers and the net and to see what they cost. And those prices are in most cases for just hardware, don't include some required software and support services.
We are already on a pretty decent dedicated server.
As of recently our server has been pretty much constantly under small scale attack and occasionally under larger scale attacks. I've done what I could to restrain them and we are ok most of the time, only occasional server too busy when there is too much overload.
If attacks keep up or become stronger we might end up needing a hardware firewall or to hire some outside help, that means higher costs again. Hope it won't come to that though.
But regardless of current attacks more members we attract better server we need as traffic and load increase.
So if you find this site helpful, got money to spare and would like to help out you are welcome to donate
As for benefits of donating can't provide you with anything special but you'll be transferred to Donating Member user group and you'll have some higher limits like more PMs allowed to be stored, more images to be uploaded to our image hosting system, higher daily attachment download limit, access to Vip forum.
It is gonna take few days before donation is confirmed and you are transferred to donating member group.
Btw, donations will probably expire after few months, period will depend on the amount. Haven't really set any figures yet and I might not have time to revise those donations but just want to note that in case it does happen.
EDIT, ok let's add some figures for now, if you got any objections we can discuss them and possibly change.
5 EUR donation, expires in 2 months.
10 to 20 EUR donation expires in 3 to 5 months.
20+EUR expires in 5 or more months depending on amount.
Any amounts in between will be considered as next higher value as custom amounts can be used as well as those listed.