Sim-Outhouse Bandwidth Donation Drive 2017

***Dangerousdave26*** · January 1st, 2017, 15:03

As most members know Ickie handled the donation drive for over 10 years. In Ickie's absence we starting the Donation Drive for 2017, but we are a little behind at this time. Normally Ickie has fresh quotes from the hosting service and we know what the next year will cost us. At this point we do not know what our total costs for 2017 will be.

For that reason the amount we are trying to raise is the same as last year. This we expect will cover our bandwidth, hosting service, domain registration, software licensing fees, maintenance costs for both our .com and .net servers.

Since we are in a shrinking community it has proven harder each year to fund both servers. Of the two servers the .com server is our core and is the server we absolutely must retain. If we are uable to fund both servers by the end of January we will strongly consider eliminating the .net server. Like past years that decision is hard to make. The bill for the .net server falls at the beginning of feb and the .com follows at the beginning of March. This is backwards from how we would like it but we have always been able to pull through in the end.

For the new members here is the break down on the functionality of each server.

www.sim-outhouse.com - Linux server - Primary website/forums and file library.

www.sim-outhouse.net - Windows Server - Backup website/forums, TeamSpeak3, FS Host (must run on a Windows server because of Direct Play requirements), Colaboration tool for a small number of developers and .com website/file library backup location.

We look forward to being here for another year.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum....php?do=donate

Note the forum software is not moving the confirmed donations to the new Charter Member 2017 group. I am manually doing that part. If you don't get moved within a few days PM me.

**The_Editor** · January 1st, 2017, 15:43

Done.

**papab** · January 2nd, 2017, 01:02

Done!
Glad to help

**stansdds** · January 2nd, 2017, 01:41

Chipped in a little!

**Dev One** · January 2nd, 2017, 04:43

A little from me too.

**ejoiner** · January 2nd, 2017, 05:19

Im in. Job done. Heres to a great 2017!

***Rami*** · January 3rd, 2017, 09:16

Good afternoon,

Just wanted to pop in and say thank you for all of the generous donations so far, and the kindness that has been expressed by people in praising SOH and passing their best onto Ickie. I look forward to being the SOH librarian again for the coming year, so please keep the donations coming in!

**Odie** · January 9th, 2017, 13:00

Dropped a few shekels in the coffers! Need to keep the Outhouse flying!

**Little Chacha** · January 14th, 2017, 06:58

How do we donate?

I am new here.

I could have read the other posts. Do we mail it?

Can I use (my mom's) paypal? How much is your goal? Can we do a telethon?

(For the sake of the new people like me). Do you require membership to be here? I am a teen, can I hang out here?

(I can be annoying sometimes)

***PRB*** · January 14th, 2017, 07:36

Hannah, if you look at the top of each page, there is a progress bar showing our goal, and how much we have received. All the way to the right is a red link that says "Contribute Now". Click that. Yes you can use Pay Pal, BUT ask your mom first... lol!

***Dangerousdave26*** · January 14th, 2017, 12:57

Hannah

I received your donation and yes you can hang out here. We do not require anyone to donate. It helps if you have some sort of Flight Simulator addiction.