Well, it appears one of our main servers is starting to be on its last legs...
He is a k6-2/300 with 256megs edo memory running on an old 6gig fujitsu ide drive. This system happens to be the first system I built myself back when I got my first domain back in January of '98.
The system has been crashing lately as you have seen (it just happens to be the only active and working login server at the moment), but more importantly, it holds over 4 months of data to do with our source tree since around the end of July.
Currently, we are processing over 1000 login requests an hour on that machine, it is really the backbone of the whole EQEMu.net project.
Telmet has already said he is sending a new cpu and motherboard to help offset the costs, but I do not have the money for what the rest of the machine needs honestly.
What I am asking of you guys is simple. I need a case like from:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...mount+atx+case
a 4U rackmount case (for 19" racks). So it will fit in
The EQEMu.Net Rack
Please, only 1 person help buying one. It just needs to be ATX and 4U.
Also, money donations for the new RAID (Mirrored 40GB/8MB cache WD ATA drives) would be a great help. The drives are about $90/each and the raid controller (Promise FasTrack) is about $90 with a cache sdram installed.
If you would like to donate anything from the above, post here, and also come to #eqemu on irc.eqemu.net . I try to chat as much as possible, but this is the time I need overtime, so I might not be there 24/7. I will get you my address if you are serious. If you want to donate via paypal,
dev@eqemu.net is the account. You will get a nifty Support icon for it!
Hopefully, we can get these donations done quickly and this new machine up as soon as possible.
FYI, just for some project donation stats in the last year:
1) vBulletin License (Owned) -> Pyrotek (Back in Janurary of last year).
2) $1.01 (paypal) -> Total from Baron-Sprite & devn00b
3) No Hardware (has arrived yet).
Now, the project costs about $190/month to keep running for everyone, and I have been doing this bill since around April of '01.
Well, I'll let you go on and play now.
--Hogie
.:[Updated Stats]:. (All amounts are after paypal & check cashing fees)
CPU & Motherboard Being Sent by Telmet
Raid Controller Being Sent by TrumpCard
$75.00 Donated by TrumpCard (Money Order)
$72.52 Donated by Shawn319 (paypal)
$72.52 Donated by MOORKOTH (paypal)
$72.52 Donated by Kaiyodo (paypal)
$48.25 Donated by Atma (paypal)
$4.55 Donated by (Unknown) (A. Foote) (paypal)
$7.31 Donated by justaddwater (paypal)
$19.12 Donated by Ferrall (paypal)