EQEmu losing hosting

[Doodman]

We've been informed that we are going to be losing our current hosting for EQEmu.

Very little reason was given, but we will need to find a new home in short order (i.e. 10 days).

This is a call for donations to aid us in finding a new home.

If you are interested in helping financially, visit the sourceforge page to donate funds.
If you are interested in offering other assistance, please contact myself or FatherNitWit via PM.

This project has relied on the generosity of Krusher for a long time in providing hosting services. This situation has now come to an end. Stable, reliable hosting is critical to the existence of this project and we need your help to re-establish this infrastructure.

[techguy84]

This isnt good. What kind of hosting is needed for the project to keep going. Like massive Dual Xeon servers with 100mbit connections or what. I will drop what I can in a few days (this comming saturday to be exact, So long as the woman lets me... I am just wondering how much it will take to keep it up and moving month per month.

Furthermore, Its a good time to get the minilogin going few the brief downtime I suppose. /jk

Edit---

Is this site still hosted on DMG, if so, are they shutting down. I am going to be looking around for good hosting tonight so I will get back with my results. I am sure that you are looking for *nix type hosting with Mysql right. Anyhow, anything other I can do minus dontations for the time being I will be happy to do.

[techguy84]

Here is just a few I found from Google


Rackspace - $385/month 150GB Transfer/Linux, Mysql, Root Access

Aplus.net - $99/month 1000GB transfer/CeleronD 3.3GHz/1GB DDR2800/250GB HD Linux Mysql root access

ServerBeach - $75/month 900GB transfer/Celeron 1.7Ghz/1GB ram

iWEB - $69/month 1000GB transfer/Celeron 3.0Ghz/many *nix distros - Dont know about MySQL

CompletlyDedicated - $79/month 1000GB/Athlon-XP/1GB Ram/*nix distros - Dont konw about mysql

BocaCom - $119/month 800GB transfer/P4 2.8Ghz/1GB Ram/ Linux w/root access


I will keep searching too, but as far as these go, my money is on Aplus.net one. The processer sucks, but how much processer is needed to run the site, wiki and the loginserver.

Also, I dont know what kind of restrictions the loginserver puts on you guys, or if you even need that hosted on one of these servers.

[Angelox]

I'm not sure what you mean, or how much of EqEmu will be affected. Forgive me for being stupid, but the system for donating appears to be a bit complicated and directed towards individuals?
Anyways, I managed to find Doodman's donor section and saw just a few donors in the listing. So few, I felt a little ashamed; There's what, around a dozen donors after all this time?
If this is the case, I don't see where donations will solve this, as it seems you need some steady income in order to keep all this going.
I saw this post in the morning and expected to see the comments here swamping in , by the time I got back from work - more reason to believe donor help will not work.
What comes next, may not be 100% correct, and will not be very appealing to many, but it's a start and might set things rolling again.
I'm taking for granted EqEmu Forums, Login server, (what else?) are closely related.

- One simple, donation button which will be available on this forum and every other site that belongs to EqEmu.

- An option to donate with something other than Pay Pal ( I like many others are "anti-PayPal and anti- Ebay", thus have no account there). A credit-card option would be very helpful.

- Give something back to the donors for their effort. For example, If i donated 10.00. I get all the assistance I want on the forums even if its "Do I have to have Titanium?" 20 times. maybe have some special "Donor" forums.
The donor thing could come in levels, maybe if we can get people to commit 10-20 dollars a month (which would be a lot better than one lump-sum donation). they would be able to have stuff like a "preffered server".
I could almost guarantee you, if you made donor forums - income would pick up.

-Maybe open up a bank account for EqEmu where Doodman, FNW , and whoever else, has access and can view transactions. That way, money can be transfered from donors better, and a server space can be paid for.

I'm willing to pay, probably could arrange for someone else to send you money via PayPal, but I want to see Eqemu always around, not just for another month. I want to commit a hassle-free, monthly payment to you guys which as far as i'm concerned, can stop on the day I die.

[Ueguvil]

Summer's coming up so I'll be able to afford tossing a few bucks to keep my favourite project alive, I'm sure many others will too.

Like Angelox said, it's sad to not see much of a response right now, but if it gets to the point where the money isn't made in 10 days and the loginserver has to actually shut down, then we should see more of a reaction.

There use to be a whole donation system set up and the box that ran eq was paid for by donations for years and years and years.

The decision was made to allow Krusher to host everything, and he could put adds up and keep that $, so the donation system was taken down because we didn't require any.


It may be a simple fix to add a donation button, but the account, tall the splash through to different places would take more time then there worth considering we have a week now.


If we can manage to keep things going, there will be a donation system set up, better support for paying people wont be one of them, this is open source and at would defeat the purpose.

Custom Titles, allowing avatars... stuff like that is doable (as long as they don become porn like before).

[Skizoke]

Originally Posted by Angelox

- One simple, donation button which will be available on this forum and every other site that belongs to EqEmu.

- Give something back to the donors for their effort. For example, If i donated 10.00. I get all the assistance I want on the forums even if its "Do I have to have Titanium?" 20 times. maybe have some special "Donor" forums.
The donor thing could come in levels, maybe if we can get people to commit 10-20 dollars a month (which would be a lot better than one lump-sum donation). they would be able to have stuff like a "preffered server".
I could almost guarantee you, if you made donor forums - income would pick up.

Did donor forums ever happen? I'd gladly donate to help out but I would definately do it if it meant some of my stupid questions might get answered sooner

[Davood]

who should I be donating to?