EQEmu losing hosting

[Zengez]

Just a thought but I don't see a release since 3/15, maybe a new release with a built in default Message of the Day about people needing to donate so that all those people that are too lazy to change it... the players on those servers will see it (ps any server admins that could may want to change their message of the day if they don't mind).... just a thought /shrug

::Edit:: Hmm I bet that's actually in the database isn't it? I dunno maybe someone can think of something, if it's not too difficult to hardcode it in for 1 release /shrug

[gernblan]

Originally Posted by Angelox

Hey, If the guy pays some money, I'll answer anything I can. If you look good at all this, there are not too many of us; maybe 20-30 active in the forums and maybe 300 players (tops) on the servers.
I'm the first one that gets fed up with same old question that you can find with a search - but if it 's a donor, so be it! We got less than ten days now, before this whole thing goes belly-up and it all poofs! If we let it get to that, it's going to me much harder getting it back together again.
In any case, we have to take immediate action and send money to either Doodman or FNW. I'm trying to figure out how to Paypal him via someone else, I may have to stoop down and make an account. There's nothing else we can do in ten days.
To everone that reads this; This is all going down the drain unless we act now.

I donated already but I think it would really help to know a NUMBER, as in how much MORE is needed to make this work? Then maybe some of us can step up and make it happen financially.

So please, can someone give a report on how much is already in the server fund and how much more is needed, and quickly?

[Angelox]

I've done what I can my friends, and that is rally us together and pump in some money. Other than that, Im just a mod here and my prime directive is to help stop spam and porn topics.
I can't speak for Dood and FNW, they gotta do that themselves or authorize someone to rep them. In fact, I'm just as freaked out as the rest of you.
The way I see it , even if it doesn't happen after the deadline, they still earned whatever we donated: We should have been "donating" a long time ago.
This project is well worth what ever we send their way.
I can tell you the two people to donate to is FNW and the Doodman - So if you sent money to Doodman, next time you should do FNW. I don't really understand why, I guess bounce from one to another with the donations for now, or maybe just split the money up two ways when you donate.

[techguy84]

WOOT GO GO POWER EMU, MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER EMU....... sorry, had to get that off my chest. Anyhow, I dropped a dime in today, kinda all I could do at the moment, with gas crested right at 3.15 a gallon at the moment, it crippled me today to fill my car up and it take a whopping $42.00. I cried as the woman swiped all seven of my credit cards in ecstasy. I think she like it.

Anyhow, If the project does go under, is there anyway to make a login server. Does it have to have the same crypto as what we are not allowed to see, or can we design are own? I suppose that may be a dumb question as it has to work with the client itself. But like a variant of the mini login that can read by user name and password, maybe with no encryption. I dunno, just a way for some of us to keep a server going, ya know?

[fathernitwit]

All,

The reason we are not posting any hard numbers, is that right now, we do not have any hard numbers. We are still working various options to decide what is the best route to take, and each of them has different expenses. This is why we put out a general call for donations: we know there are going to be expenses, but we do not know what exactly. We figured it was less impactful than setting a worst case goal for people to shoot for, possibly making sacrifices they are not 100% comfortable with, and then have people upset if we find a lower cost solution.

We have gotten enough donations to ensure that the project will have hosting for at least a few months, even if we have to go out and rent a new dedicated server. However, we are looking at the combination of several factors in order to choose a long term, sustainable solution. The major pivot points are related to long term overall costs, personal costs incurred by Doodman or I (not just money), and sustainability of community support. We will keep you informed as decisions are made.

Thanks to all who have donated.

The big issue with hard numbers is as soon as you hit that magic # people stop donating, then there has to be a call out in a week for the next month, by not posting it right now people are continuing to donate.


Hard numbers will come, nobody is going to pocket the money and run.

[techguy84]

You two are right, we really dont need hard numbers to meet. I'm just wondering how things are going myself, like a host has been found, or we have one that will do everything but loginserver, or one that can only do login server and we have to have the site on another server.... things like that. Anyhow, its good to know that we have done pretty go by donations, I'm going to keepem comin as I can afford at the moment.

[Angelox]

Your donation system is not to your best interest; you need to make a simple and straight-forward donation button that can be available anywhere on your sites.
This way, even the casual user/player can donate with little effort.
You should also bring back the forums to accommodate donors.

[jdankanyin]

After being with the project for so many years ive seen alot of devs come and go This Project is the one of the best ones out there We cant let this project die.Doodman and fathernit are the major backbones to the project they should get the most graditude but without the community to make it all work eqemu wont be there So please donate and keep the project going.

[nadineemu]

What exactly is needed for hosting, I run my own ISP i might be able to help y'all out..

[mgellan]

Hey guys:

I kicked in $20, hope it helps. Any chance we could get a status update?

Also, I run a dedicated P4 3.2Ghz 1GB RAM Linux box with SUSE 10.2 on which I'm running EqEmu (WintersHaven, only up when I'm playing around with the db and testing, or playing with friends) in a Debian text based VM - if you're desperate I'm happy to help, although obviously you don't know sh** about me Thought I'd offer tho.

Good luck!

Regards,
Mg

[fnemo]

If needed, I can share the project (web, svn and so on) on the shared hosting service I owned for free.

Latency with International are fine and the plateform is far enough to support this kind of project.

Regards,
fnemo.

[gernblan]

You're right, Matt. FNW posting "we're ok for now but need to figure out some stuff to be ok long term" is basically what I was after, and all that's really needed to be said at this point.

[vales]

Wewt!

You guys are back! I was a bit concerned when everything was down last night. Are you guys settled in at the new host, or is this still temporary?

[krusher]

No, the core switch blew up last night and i didnt get a replacement until this morning...

I am working with FN and DM to make sure the site dosent go offline until we have made arrangements for a new host.

Krusher