[Drunken F00l]

Last month (and looking like this month) I've had to put a lot of money out of pocket into the servers. In November, we only received $188 in donations out of a hopeful $680. And so far this month, we've only recieved 8% of the goal. If this trend continues, I cannot continue to pay the server costs. So there are a few options.

1) Switch donator benefits to a monthly subscription (this is easy to do since TF2Items.com premium memberships already give reserved slots on all servers).
2) Get more donations (like with this forum post and advertising donator benefits and stuff).
3) Reduce costs (get rid of some servers).

Let's be clear about where this $680 goal comes from.

Box 1 - Xeon 3460 / 8GB RAM - $228/mo.

• Valve maps 1
  
• 2fort instant respawn
  
• 2fort no mods
  
• No crit server

Box 2 - Xeon 3210 / 4GB RAM - $224/mo.

• Valve maps 2
  
• Goldrush
  
• Arena
  
• Prop hunt

HLStatsX for 6 servers - $27/mo.

The remaining $201 helps cover the cost of the website, databases, email server, idle servers, etc. I'd be open to reducing the goal as well since TF2Items premium service and advertisements helps reduce this remaining $201 a bit.

I don't like option #3 because you can't really pick which TF2 servers to get rid of. One of the two boxes has to go which means all four servers on the box and neither of those combos are good.

I know we've discussed this before, but this time it's real and not just speculation. Something has to actually be done this time.

There's no poll attached to this thread, because if you actually have an opinion I'd rather you spend 30 seconds and tell me about it.