I'd like to do a big thank you to the players who risked their money donating to the game server account in the knowledge that it might be lost.
The good news is that the hosting system did reactivate the server, and enough was donated to keep it running for a year at the current bill rate. We now have full access to the server hosting system and can monitor donations and payments to the host made from them.
In order of donation time after mine at the weekend, thanks to MaD[skunk], hagis, arbok, [RMD]JoeMillionaire, Pjanno, KOT, kops, Flenser, adghost, BGA h-duke, psina, Prozack.PL and Nardaq
Thank you. That is very kind of you.
The next thing we need to pay for is the domain name and forum. That isn't urgent, but is coming up in April.
If you would like to donate towards the cost of this box that runs the forum and part of the infrastructure that keeps the problem players from the game servers , please donate to PayPal ukpiglet @ btinternet.com - that is an account I have set up for this.
For information, money donated using the link at the bottom of the page can only be used to pay for the game server and cannot be used to pay for the forum/game admin monitor box
Thanks again for your donations past, present and future. They are much appreciated and will be used to keep things running here.
£ on its way. Good work, mate.
Got it thanks. You're a star. Will transfer it to the hosting account this evening.
Hello evrybody,
I'm not often at home actually and playing with you all but just made my little contribution.
Thanks again "piglet".
Alain
Donated some € to ukpiglet @ btinternet.com, Nice work and thanks for all.
Thank you all three.
Between you you've covered the cost of this forum for another year. Thanks.
That's the last of the bills until September - and I think what's in the pot now will cover that one too.
Let's play!
One more donation received. Thank you.
That will be put towards a domain renewal or registration later in the year - different options to take depending on whether we can get in contact with Raj or not before the renewal needs to be done
There is no need for any further donations at this point in time.
Thank you all
Right on brothers!
How may I contribute funds? I would like to help.
Hi Hugs,
There is a discrete donations button (https://miasma.rocks/pages/donate.php) at the bottom of the page.
All bills are currently in USD, so it's best to use the "Donate in US Dollars" donation link there.
The only things we've spent donated funds on so far are:
1. Domain registration fees
2. Web Hosting here at HawkHost - and I have to say they've been really good hosts.
3. Game server hosting at NFOServers, and again they've been really helpful.
We may want to spend some cash on testing out more powerful servers. We don't have enough in the kitty for this yet. Nor do we know whether it's going to be successful. We don't know if the limitation is due to the CPU or the game server & maps we're playing on it.
Thanks Piggy - donation just sent to your account.
Huggy
Thanks. Received. :)
hi piggy :)
some present for you :)
Got it thanks!
Okay, giving back a little. Thanks for all the work. ^-^
Thanks! Much appreciated.
Thank you to the person who donated today. Every little helps keep things running.
Thanks holyspam and Kops :)
30 for us here Piggy as soon as I get paypal again runnnin
I also just did my monthly donation.
Thanks very much. Much appreciated. I think you're the first person to set up something regular.
Your welcome, u just keep up the good work u are doing already! :ok: 8)
Thanks again for the monthly donation. The second donation came in today. Much appreciated.
I've updated the donation page to have preferred currency as £ (GBP) as the hosting bills anticipated are in sterling.
The server rental runs out at the end of the month. The new physical server has been ordered and hopefully will be up and running for a load test as before the rental ends.
Watch this space for developments...
Thanks dk & Nardaq_NL :)
I've had the invoice for the server today, and paid it. It's now ours!
Thank you to those who have helped towards the hosting. I really liked the one with the comment "This is for you to use as you see fit, for the server, or the hosting, but hopefully a portion of it to treat you to a pint.". Cheers!
The hosting billing will start from the end of the month - so anyone who wants to and hasn't already set up a regular donation (https://miasma.rocks/pages/donate.php) (£1/month would be great), now would be a good time to do it.
Thank you to the two people who set up regular donations today. It's much appreciated, and will help ensure we can keep running without needing any one person having to take too much of the cost.
Thank you. :)
Hello!
So I have joined the community and I'm now donating 4 £ /month to youz just so I can keep sucking at this fantastic game. So like it or not... I'm here to stay... or at least until I'm banned for reasons. Oh boy... think of all the jolly good fun we are going to have!
Hey Nyrde - welcome and thanks for the donation!
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Hey guys !
How can I help funding Miasma servers ?
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Hi. Welcome.
See the link at the bottom of the forum "Donate to gameserver & hosting" - it links to https://miasma.rocks/pages/donate.php
I just made my first donation, ty for running those servers ! <3
Thanks :)
How are we in donations department? In need i guess always but as of now?
Hi. We seem to be covering the co-location and hosting fees so far, thank you. It's really appreciated.
I've not used any of the donations yet towards the cost of the physical machine we're using (I paid for that in full), but if we build up a bit of a buffer that might be sensible.
I had looked into setting up a "club account" and "club" to formalise everthing, but that involved a whole lot of paperwork and formal process that I just don't have the time or energy to work through.