Well met, and Happy 2011 !
It's time for a couple announcements, so without further adieu, let's proceed!
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#1 BIG ANNOUNCEMENT:UPDATE 2 has been posted!
Check it
here!!!
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It's that time again! Dynaverse.Net's yearly fund raiser! As you all know, Dynaverse.Net is operated by the Dynaverse Gaming Association, which is a non-profit corporation. This year, our goal is to raise enough cash to get licenses if necessary for the core gaming engine update.
Want a faster, zippier D.Net? Then dig in deep, and donate. You can go
HERE to donate. And remember, donate more than $25 dollars and you become a voting member of the DGA! This entitles you to become an even more active member of the SFC community, as you'll get to participate in DGA voting events!
Remember, it's *YOU* who help keep Dynaverse.Net, the teamspeak server, the IRC servers, and most importantly the Directory servers running. We cannot stress how important it is to be able to plan and implement some of these upgrades. Consider:
The Gaming server upgrade: THOR was rebuilt into a pretty robust server (DL380 G4, SCSI drives, 4 3.0GHz Xeons) and as such the community benefits - (now our Development team can run full throttle without worries) all in all this cost me about $500 on just parts to get everything where it needed to be.
This doesn't include the monthly bills to provide:
1.) Shelter
2.) Power
3.) Maintenance
4.) Backup components for critical failures.
You may think that we've just got a couple servers sitting in a office somewhere, but it's much more than that. Each server is backed up fully once a week, with alternating incrementals each day. We've got a disk array for those backups. There's a LOT of stuff going on in the background that we here at Dynaverse.Net do for infrastructure that doesn't come cheap - but I'll have nothing less. In the almost 15 years of my history hosting sites and services online, I've had no more than 2 days of continual service interruption - meaning the servers / sites have been offline for no more than 9 days.
So we really try to utilize a very professional attitude towards the infrastructure we utilize to provide you with these services for free! All we ask is that during our fund raiser, you see if you can donate whatever you can IF you can. As we always state, donations are *NOT* a requirement to use the services... but the more donations we have, the better we'll be able to provide those services and much more.
Bottom line - the more you contribute, the easier I can make it for our developers. The more you donate, the easier I can deal with the likes of Paramount in regards to licensing of the ST francise.
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That's pretty much it! Check out the DGA site, and please think about donating. If just 100 people donated $10, that's $1000!
If you have server hardware you'd like to donate, by all means simply contact me via PM and we can set something up!
Of course, the last thing we want to say to you all is
If it were not for your continuing generosity, and support, we'd likely not be here today, atleast in the shape we're in! The SFC community is quickly becoming one of the longest running communities online, and considering the first SFC game came out in July of 1999 and it's now 2011 and we're still going strong... that's quite a feat.
It couldn't have happened with out you, my friends.
We look forward to another 11 years of companionship, fun and gaming with you all!
Regards,
Frey & the D.Net Admin team
(edit by Bonk for new donations link)
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