Call for YakYak hosting contributions

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:00 pm 0

Most of you, but perhaps not the newer members, know that this site is supported entirely by Llamasoftie contributions. It is my honour to be The Keeper Of The Funds for both the Hosting Fund and the Travel Fund.

The annual hosting fees are due to be paid in about a month and, while there is a fair amount in the kitty, it needs topping up in order to pay this year's bill.

Rules for donating: There are no rules for donating

You give if you want to give ... no-one thinks more or less of you if you do or do not contribute.

You give as much or as little as you want ... if everyone Llamasoftie sent Â£1 (apart from the practical difficulties of that arrangement), we would have enough in the Fund to pay for the next 5 years

The site is not going to close if no-one donates ...

-ness will find a way.

If you would like to send something, drop me a PM or an email, and I shall let you know the different ways in which this can be done.

regards,
Elizian

P.S. I love you too, Skweek

gilesgoat · Post by **gilesgoat** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:24 pm 0

Er .. yes ok .. but HOW we can donate money ?

What's the way to do ? Send money somewhere ? How ?

skweek · Post by **skweek** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 6:36 pm 0

Elizian wrote: If you would like to send something, drop me a PM or an email, and I shall let you know the different ways in which this can be done.

See

Usually PayPal, cheque or bank transfer, IIRC

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:01 am 0

gilesgoat wrote:Er .. yes ok .. but HOW we can donate money ?

What's the way to do ? Send money somewhere ? How ?

Giles, I shall get back to you and the many others who have already PMd me. I am out all day today but I will reply to everyone either late tonight or tomorrow some time.

regards,
Elizian

diablo · Post by **diablo** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:57 am 0

Elz, what's the monthly bandwith requirements for yakyak ? (pm me if easier

I'm upgrading our company hosting platform this month for the next 12 months too so if it's within what I can give you I'd happily give you an account space on one of our dedicated servers?

Just let me know if I can help out.

d

matt · Post by **matt** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:14 am 0

diablo wrote:Elz, what's the monthly bandwith requirements for yakyak ? (pm me if easier )

I'd also like to know this. With Dreamhost offering a Terrabyte of monthly transfer for less than $8p/m, perhaps it's time to change hosting plans?

http://www.dreamhost.com

You can also get money of by using various promo codes. See their forum.

matt

Kuzetsu · Post by **Kuzetsu** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 8:57 pm 0

Dreamhost is llovely. I have 2TB of bw and 70Gb of space. Will be changing to dedicated though. -- Guru

(can't be arsed to relogin)

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 10:48 pm 0

Regarding the offer of hosting - much gratitude - and the suggestion of a change of host, I have directed these suggestions to the Mods, particularly Muttley who looks after that side of things.

I am but the humble book-keeper, counting my beans ... and I know how many make five

I shall not be collecting contributions until I know which way we are going to jump. I will say that we pay what we pay for a near faultless service and excellent back-up - 24 hours a day - if things do go wrong. We need to know that we would get the same from a private or alternative, cheaper source because this site is very important to many people.

We would not like to be responsible for the severe withdrawal symptoms that several 'Softies would exhibit if the site were to be down for more than 45 seconds

Watch this space ......

Elizian

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:01 pm 0

Elizian wrote: We would not like to be responsible for the severe withdrawal symptoms that several 'Softies would exhibit if the site were to be down for more than 45 seconds

As long as that?!

Sir_LANs-a-lot · Post by **Sir_LANs-a-lot** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 11:08 pm 0

Elizian wrote: I am but the humble book-keeper, counting my beans ... and I know how many make five

Elizian

Well.... don't keep it to yourself man!....

how many IS IT?!!

Some of us need to know!

ladybird · Post by **ladybird** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:00 pm 0

is it paypal time again then?

Kronos · Post by **Kronos** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:26 pm 0

PayPal would be the easiest way for me to contribute aswell

Elizian · Post by **Elizian** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:32 pm 0

OK ... there has been no clear decision from the Mod team (because he's v busy at the moment

), so we will be going with BlackCat again ... many thanks for the generous offers of alternative hosting.

I shall be replying to the people who have PMd me, with how to pay suggestions shortly.

Elizian

chris4500uk · Post by **chris4500uk** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:56 pm 0

I'm intrested in how much bandwidth yakyak actually uses??

Post by **Muttley** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:58 pm 0

chris4500uk wrote:I'm intrested in how much bandwidth yakyak actually uses??

Normally between 35-45GB per month.

Sorry, flying visit again. I'm surrounded by boxes right now, as we hope to exchange on a new house this week...

Muttley

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