for those of you who don't follow the "hosting pissabolities" thread.
I wrote:
I say we start a hosting fund now, taking up Elizian's offer to hold the cash, when we have 500 quid, we use it on Muttley's recommended host. We then have a year to find ways to get further funds. We should still accept donations though
Gribbles, can phpBB handle furtives (icons next to member's names)? If so I will make a series of special furtives available to every member who donates during this founding period. I will make a second series of furtives available to anyone who donates after this period.
In addition, on request, I will create a custom avatar for everyone who donates during the founding period
I have a domain name for the forum already earmarked, but I wont say what it is just yet (it's not bought yet - buying with the actual host seems the safest bet), but it seems to be sticking with gribbles+rik etc.
The suggested donation is 15 quid. That's 5 quid less than the cost of the retrovision curry, which 50 people went to. We need less than 35 of you to cough up to make our target. For these particular donations there will be no physical gift - All of you will simply be blessed with the knowledge that Flossie loves you. If you can't afford to donate, don't worry - Flossie loves you too.
For now I'm just asking for you to make a pledge of how much you would donate, while I sort out a decent way to collect payments (anyone know how to setup a paypal account? ).
The Bank account is now up and running - details will be PM'd to anyone who can make direct bank transfers, which is the easiest and cheapest way of collecting the money.
Alternatively, I will happily accept UK Bank cheques by snail mail - PM'd on request.
I have set up a PayPal account - once again, details will be PM'd on request - but there is a 4% overhead on using this, but we have little choice for overseas contributors. The account is yakyak@elizian.fsnet.co.uk
Last edited by Elizian on Mon Jun 02, 2003 1:42 pm 0, edited 1 time in total.
Whatever happens, we need to get out of Blackcat fairly soon. They are threatening to start charging 25 quid a week by the end of the month and I have already paid them a ton and a half, and we've only been on there 5 minutes.
Yak wrote:Whatever happens, we need to get out of Blackcat fairly soon. They are threatening to start charging 25 quid a week by the end of the month and I have already paid them a ton and a half, and we've only been on there 5 minutes.
Hmmm. I don't think we will be up and running by the end of next week. Assuming we get 500 quid of pledges (300 pledged so far after only 48hrs - you people are great!) - it is still going to take upto 3 weeks to get all the cash in, and at most another 2 weeks to setup the new site so we can use it.
Maybe Blackcat networks will be willing to ignore the bandwidth for one more month as a goodwill gesture, given that the main llamasoft-the-company site will remain with them???
Surfr wrote:Did we ever find out if Muttleys recomended host provide PHP support? I noticed they support Dynamic Modules for Apache but no mention of libphp4.so.
It believe it will definitely be supported (can you imagine a profesional hosting company NOT supporting PHP?). Myself or Yak will contact Kathi to confirm though!
Fund webpage has now been updated. As we broke the 300 pound barrier, the picture at the top been updated - showing sheepies progress to getting his own pad.
First sheepie was kicked out
Then sheepie lived in a cardbox in t' road
Then a tree house
Now sheepie is housesharing with grunting ox and floyd the pig.
Pledge now! When we reach 400 pounds the next picture you see is a bit... special
I have already received half a dozen enquiries for bank details, address, etc., so that people can throw their money at me. Come Monday, we should be able to see the other thermometer on the mooove.
Given the limitations of PM, re. retaining posts, feel free to email me using the button below my sig. This is not recommended for a fast response during normal working hours.
Right, I have to head off home for the weekend. This means the next chance I get to update the fund total will be about 9pm. So don't worry or get alarmed from a lack of updates. By the rate that this is going up (now 440 quid]) we should have pledged all the funds we need by then.
Please, don't stop there though. Not all pledges may be received by the time we need to move, so your help is still important. Plus, if at all possible it would be nice to have a year's worth of hosting in the kitty at all times in case something goes wrong. And of course, you will all get custom furtives!
Thanks to everyone for the rapid and generous support (many of you offered well over the suggested donation - but equally thanks to every one of you)
The account is 
