EQEmu losing hosting

Angelox · #1 05-05-2007, 11:54 AM

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 · #2 05-05-2007, 01:05 PM

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** · #3 05-06-2007, 02:14 PM

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.

#4 05-06-2007, 03:11 PM

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 · #5 05-06-2007, 03:21 PM

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 · #6 05-06-2007, 10:04 PM

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 · #7 05-08-2007, 03:44 AM

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.