Dedicated Server

[Quorneater]

Is it that amount once off, per year, or per month?

[Pescado]

Per year. Or, more specifically, for this year. The option to renegotiate rates exist next year due to the hardware obsolescence issue (or otherwise we'd just see what they had as their current plans and switch).

Chinese their basically buying their own computer with 2100. So the computer is not running other sites, except MATY and if they some site hosting. For that price though you could get more HD. My computer was custom built for less than that, and I had two HDS of 200 GBtes each.

That's essentially the idea, yes. The computer would not be running anything I didn't tell it to run. The base are entirely belong to us.

[Marhis]

Well, of course the more you spend, the more you can demand in return. But this is true whatever you do with a site.

The worst effect I've experienced so far with the sites (the phorum part here and MATY) was the last ~24h downtime. Sometimes is slower, sometimes not.
If the problem was no phorum/maty/booty unless on dedicated server, this would be another issue, but if the problem is only about occasional borked service, I would not worry too much.

After all, there was no claim to be "the best top quality downloading site for free in the world", but only the "we can do what paysites do with no need to FORCE you to pay for". And - on a side note - this site do much more than any single paysite do.
And this would remain true even with a voluntary donation scheme, which is incidentally also one of the methods this site supports and encourages.

[Soup Parrot]

The phorum for me is accessible, occasionally it goes down, but the front site page, and all that are never up for me. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Not everyone out there will be able to get the booty either, its kind of like unreliable at this point, so something needs to be done, and the phorum is growing daily.

[Pescado]

We're nearly 20% of the way there now.

[Soup Parrot]

Elaborate Pescado 20% for? Donations?...If its paypay where do we send the donations?

[BlueSoup]

20% for the $2100 needed for a dedicated server.  Aka $400.

[Tchannie]

20% for the $2100 needed for a dedicated server.  Aka $400.

Wow! That's brilliant! So fast, too!

[Moose]

Hello! I registered a long time ago but forgot my username, so here I'm again. I wondered what happened to the booty but now I see.  
I have a suggestion, though. How about making it as torrent site? The files are shared with peers (=people) so you only have to host the tracker.

The only problem with that, is a lot of people don't have torrent clients, or have chosen not to have a torrent client. Myself included.

[postergirl]

The only problem with that, is a lot of people don't have torrent clients, or have chosen not to have a torrent client. Myself included.

That's pretty much just like the people on MTS2 always bitching about not having WinRAR. I guess you make the leap and download it, go without, or... you know, come up with the $1700 we still need for a dedicated server. :wink:

That said, I don't dislike the torrent idea as much as the everyone hosting a portion of the files idea. And I like the forum idea too.

[icedwhitemocha]

Alright, I donated what I can.  I agree with toomanyguppies - what this site has accomplished is incredible and we can't afford to "start coming apart at the seams" now.  
I don't really think we'll have egg on our faces for this.  If anything, it should prove that while we may bandy about the label of "pirates!" with good humor, we are not simply trying to get stuff for free.  In a sense, we are paying for the pay content - but we're doing it the way communities *should* do it.

[Moose]

The only problem with that, is a lot of people don't have torrent clients, or have chosen not to have a torrent client. Myself included.

Well, the latest version of Opera browser includes some kind of built-in torrent client and there must be an extension for Firefox too.  

Not everybody uses Firefox either  :wink:

[Tchannie]

The only problem with that, is a lot of people don't have torrent clients, or have chosen not to have a torrent client. Myself included.

Well, the latest version of Opera browser includes some kind of built-in torrent client and there must be an extension for Firefox too.  

Not everybody uses Firefox either  :wink:

I use IE. I can't get FF to WORK on my PC. Besides, I find it incredibly ugly.

[Soup Parrot]

Asking this again, so I can again donate.
Is this paypal, who do we send it too, what account? Is there a donate button around here Im missing?
Please post details.

[BlueSoup]

View the second post in this thread.

Also, we're up to $700 currently.