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$500 a month is quite an expensive server for running a forum.

Couldn't you just switch the forum to a VPS from Hetzner, OVH or whatever reasonably priced company?
 
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On topic. if there can be some flexibility with donations, for example bi-monthly donations being welcome, than count me in.
 

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Quite. It's just a forum...so even bandwidth shouldn't be difficult.

I mean, seriously: http://www.1and1.co.uk/VirtualServer...virtualservers
 
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We already got 245$ just since the first post with the paypal link was published.

I'd call that an amazing community.

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What about us, from countries without PayPall services (yes, there are few countries out) is that any way to use alternative payment services?

Count me in for sure.
 

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What about us, from countries without PayPall services (yes, there are few countries out) is that any way to use alternative payment services?

Count me in for sure.
Not at the moment. But we're currently setting up a proper bank account (takes a few days) so that much more ways will become possible.
 

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Originally Posted by aegis View Post
$500 a month is quite an expensive server for running a forum.

Couldn't you just switch the forum to a VPS from Hetzner, OVH or whatever reasonably priced company?
This is what Nokia was paying up until now. We are considering other options, it just may be required to pay one month more in order to have enough time to migrate.
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We already got 245$ just since the first post with the paypal link was published.

I'd call that an amazing community.
Are we there yet at the required limit for this month?
Is there a place we can check the running total required?
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I'd personally be willing to donate the 5€*a month to keep the infrastructure running.

But I'm frankly pessimistic that this would work in the long run. Even if somehow it'd work at first, people would start dropping. And getting replacements would be hard.

I hope I'm too pessimistic about that, but I do home some other more sustainable way can be found. Like some others have said, advertisements maybe, or sponsors. But I have no idea unfortunately what would be a realistic option.
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Just a quick update:
Donations exceeded 1,000.00 (one thousand) USD in less than 24 hours.

Thanks a lot to you all!
 

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