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Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: Bla Date: May 16, 2014, 4:24 pm
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Some people have shown interest in donations, and I haven't
forgotten about them. But it would be very tedious to set up,
because some laws probably apply to it, and finding Danish laws
for this specific situation isn't easy. I've found out that some
lawyers offer help for free in various places at various times,
but only if you meet up, so I should probably ask them some day
when I have time.
This is my plan for the principles that the donations would have
to run on:
- Donations should be entirely voluntary and not grant any
benefits to the individual who donates. Anyone who donates can
still be banned the next day if they break the rules badly.
- 100% of donations will go into covering future server costs
and/or upgrading it. No donations will be spent on anything
other than Blacraft.
- If donations happen, publicly available information will list
all donations, the people who donated (although being listed as
anonymous would be an option), and the server expenses.
- Discussions and polls on the forum will be the basis for
determining how the donations should be spent, but Bla will have
the final say, as long as they're spent on Blacraft.
- No-one has the right to a refund (unless there's a way to set
that up).
- In case Bla cannot run Blacraft, excess donations should be
spent on 'temporary' worlds etc. possibly administered by others
from the community who have time, or if possible and desired, be
refunded to the donors instead.
I might, with my current economic situation, consider the
current monthly cost a base that I pay each month, and then let
donations fund any expenses above that. But upgrading after one
small donation probably wouldn't be a good idea, because if
nobody donates afterwards, one month later I'll stand with a
higher expense and probably be forced to downgrade again. An
accumulation process would probably have to take place so we
don't have to do tedious upgrade/downgrade processes for single
months, for example by deciding a community goal like one-year
upgrade to 2 GB RAM after hitting x money and then do the
upgrade when the goal is reached.
Thanks to people who showed interest in donating, though. With
that said I personally find the hardware ok to satisfy the needs
atm, but not everyone agree here I know.
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Re: Blacraft Donations
By: oobeinfo Date: May 17, 2014, 4:00 am
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i may be poor but this makes me happy
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Re: Blacraft Donations
By: b-ong Date: May 17, 2014, 8:45 am
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can i donate with Bitcoin
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Re: Blacraft Donations
By: Bla Date: May 17, 2014, 9:55 am
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I don't think Multicraft accepts Bitcoin, kol.
#Post#: 2767--------------------------------------------------
Re: Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: Bla Date: June 8, 2014, 10:52 am
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My economy appears to be doing fine enough that I wouldn't be
afraid of upgrading from Sand to Brick or possibly Stone.
HTML http://www.minecraft4u.com/index-2.html
Brick has 1.5 GB instead of the current 1 GB of RAM. (and 18
player slots instead of 12)
Stone has 2 GB instead of 1 GB. (and 24 player slots)
The player slots aren't the issue, the server would probably run
rather badly if it were actually filled. It's more the
RAM/performance that matters here. Hopefully lag should be
reduced.
I'd like to make the subscription last one year though, as
that's cheaper. Do you people think brick would be sufficient
for the next year?
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Re: Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: b-ong Date: June 8, 2014, 11:41 am
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i think brick is fine
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Re: Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: Mudkipz Date: June 8, 2014, 10:47 pm
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i don't feel a burning need for a better server, this one is
fine as is, unless we're expecting more players.
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Re: Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: Bla Date: June 14, 2014, 2:48 pm
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Throwing this out there... Bmwsu said in chat that Interserver
is now actually using DigitalOcean, which has VPS instead of
many different instances running on the same server which causes
lag.
HTML https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Their pricing seems comparable to our current server if we look
at the RAM, but I don't actually know how much bandwidth we're
using or about the other things. It doesn't look like it has a
Minecraft server control panel either but has a control panel
that's more general for pretty much anything, so it might make
it harder to manage the server.
I'd probably stick with the brick upgrade for a year and see how
it goes.
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Re: Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: b-ong Date: June 14, 2014, 7:36 pm
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vps? verticle poop syndrome?
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Re: Blacraft Server Upgrades and Donations
By: Bla Date: June 15, 2014, 5:10 am
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Virtual private server
HTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server
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