Popular Post !zunnie Posted October 28, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted October 28, 2013 NEED DONATIONS Alright guys/girls, MPF is in need of some (regular) donations from its community. I'll attempt to explain why in as much detail as i can We currently have two server boxes, one in the USA and one in the EU. The USA box is running our Renegade NewMaps server and is our primary box which will definately not be cancelled within the next year or so. Our EU box is our secondary box and we ran some CSGO, TF2 and of course the Renegade-X beta test servers on there. The problem is simple: I myself have to step back a little bit from online donating to MPF for at least a couple of months. I will be moving to a new more expensive house in November 2013 and i REALLY gonna need all my money for it :/ Double rent the first month i go there, gotto rent a van to move our stuff over, gotto dress up the new house, paint, floors, etc. So i've let our Admins know i am going to have to cut funding for a little while. Because of this we will HAVE to cancel our EU based box -at least until i get back in a few months- until i can help fund it again. We were planning to run a good Renegade-X server on this box along with its 1GBit connection for hosting the download. It is much desired to keep this box online. But we need help supporting it, you can all blame me for this We really intended to keep the box up for a longer period, at least until the release of Renegade-X and on. I hope to see some people interested in donating so we can keep this box online for at least one or two months more until i get back. Now, in any case, we will have a good USA based Renegade-X server for a while ahead. If we simply cannot support the EU box thats too bad. We might get another EU based box at a later stage again then. But the box we have now is fully configured, runs great and has no problems at all, it would be sad to see that go. So, you are interested in donating to us? Please visit this page to donate. Thanks ALOT for your support everyone!!!! PS: Come on our irc at irc.multiplayerforums.com in channel #mpf-renx and #renegadex of course. kenz3001, alexrirak, Slammer59 and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!Manuel857 Posted November 1, 2013 Share Posted November 1, 2013 I think something needs to be cut here. $450.00 each month is a bit extreme. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!zunnie Posted November 1, 2013 Author Share Posted November 1, 2013 Yea we got rid of the EU box so the bill is rougly $225 now alltogether. We really tried/wanted to keep it but its just too expensive to keep em both. Maybe when i can contribute more myself again in a couple of months we can get one again but i dunno. Manuel857 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slammer59 Posted November 3, 2013 Share Posted November 3, 2013 hi zunnie, ive donated too,i want to support you and MPF, ive moved to a new house long time ago in holland, so i can talk about it.MPF must be thinking iam dissapeard from the earth, but i want to explain in the mod forum, but i dont know when, because right know iam very sick and overstressed, i got pills from the dokter.Off course MPF main newmaps server is most important, thats why i donated. succes for moving to a new house, we can talk about in team speak, because ive no payed job for a long time, just a bit money from the Dutch goverment,maybe you too, i dont know, i have experiance about getting money from the dutch goverment. greetings zunnie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Speedy059 Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Zunnie, You know i'm always willing to help. I've been really busy lately and haven't been able to play much, but plan on doing so shortly! If you would like a test server or a primary server, our cloud has been churning great lately. We have redundant SANs, 10Gig switches, Level3 bandwidth, and can spin you up a test (or primary) server whenever you want. Can setup other smaller servers for other services as well (TS, etc). Providing infrastructure isn't a problem, create a Windows Template and spin up additional servers as needed. All cloud servers sit on top of Dual SSD SANs (failover, redundant), 20Gbps SAN Network, failover HyperVisors. The performance has attracted quite a few large companies and have infrastructure that any game server administrator would drool over. Second Option - What if everyone chips in and save up to ~$1600 and build a server and do colocation? That price would get you a E3-1240v3, 32GB Memory, 1TB SSD, 1U Chassis, SuperMicro Motherboard with IPMI. After the CPU get's old, you spend $250-$450 every 2-3 years to upgrade it. This is a lot cheaper than spending $250-$450/mo on a server. I can colocate it for free. OSTKCabal, Kickmofo and zunnie 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSTKCabal Posted November 9, 2013 Share Posted November 9, 2013 Zunnie, You know i'm always willing to help. I've been really busy lately and haven't been able to play much, but plan on doing so shortly! If you would like a test server or a primary server, our cloud has been churning great lately. We have redundant SANs, 10Gig switches, Level3 bandwidth, and can spin you up a test (or primary) server whenever you want. Can setup other smaller servers for other services as well (TS, etc). Providing infrastructure isn't a problem, create a Windows Template and spin up additional servers as needed. All cloud servers sit on top of Dual SSD SANs (failover, redundant), 20Gbps SAN Network, failover HyperVisors. The performance has attracted quite a few large companies and have infrastructure that any game server administrator would drool over. Second Option - What if everyone chips in and save up to ~$1600 and build a server and do colocation? That price would get you a E3-1240v3, 32GB Memory, 1TB SSD, 1U Chassis, SuperMicro Motherboard with IPMI. After the CPU get's old, you spend $250-$450 every 2-3 years to upgrade it. This is a lot cheaper than spending $250-$450/mo on a server. I can colocate it for free. That second option is an insanely good idea, you don't even know. It also gives you the benefit of legal ownership of the hardware and 110% ability to customize it to your needs that many companies simply cannot or will not do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!zunnie Posted November 10, 2013 Author Share Posted November 10, 2013 I might contact you in the future about it We would still like to have an EU based server in Amsterdam or Berlin but the costs really drove us nuts for a while, we kept the EU box for 4 months or so but the total picture of all costs together was just a little over the top for us. And with me stopping funding a bit for a few months because im moving to a new house unless we got enough donations (on a monthly basis though which is maybe too much asked) we just decided to cancel it after all. The USA box will definately not go anywhere anytime soon, i've had a couple of offers from other guys to replace it but the box is good, fast and affordable for us and we've been with Limestone Networks for over a year now so i don't see the need to switch over anytime soon. But ANOTHER European based serverpc is something we would really like to have again in the near future, which i'll talk to you about when the time comes Thanks for the offer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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