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How much are you willing to Donate: - Slias - 07-21-2009
i would be willing to pay $5 per month, or $100 one time, sadly, i don't have a card to pay it with.
be serious guys.
Post reasons Why/Why Not
How Much
and if you are already donating.
:yahoo::P
One Time can also be a yearly payment, or just one time
How much are you willing to Donate: - Cyberanson - 07-21-2009
Monthly or repeating donations are hard to accomplish for me. So I try to keep the steady money flows low.
For the one time paymend I voted for 50$, because I donate in Euro, which is much more worth then the Green Scabies. Could be even higher.
How much are you willing to Donate: - ophidian - 07-21-2009
Well when I have money in my PayPal, I can send those to disco like I did earlier since in my country, you cannot withdraw cash from paypal, when I buy something I usually have some leftover cash that I would willingly donate. I cannot give an exact amount but 100 bucks yearly is not a delusional option for me, I just cant say when and how much in means of partitions I can do that.
How much are you willing to Donate: - atlantis2112 - 07-22-2009
If I could get access to my own paypal... probably $60
How much are you willing to Donate: - Slias - 07-22-2009
can't be that hard to get a paypal account?
How much are you willing to Donate: - Turkish - 07-22-2009
' Wrote:can't be that hard to get a paypal account?
Age is a factor.
How much are you willing to Donate: - .:Mongoose:. - 07-22-2009
Would happily pay $10 per month or $100 as a one off yearly
:D
How much are you willing to Donate: - tazuras - 07-22-2009
I've already donated thirty. I might donate more if it includes plans to make improvements other than just upgrade the game server.
How much are you willing to Donate: - Eppy - 07-22-2009
' Wrote:I've already donated thirty. I might donate more if it includes plans to make improvements other than just upgrade the game server.
I don't think the server CAN be upgraded anymore. If memory serves is has the most powerful single-core processor on the market atm...
How much are you willing to Donate: - tazuras - 07-22-2009
' Wrote:I don't think the server CAN be upgraded anymore. If memory serves is has the most powerful single-core processor on the market atm...
And I will answer with a quote:
' Wrote:We're planning to upgrade the server's RAM (probably up to 4 or even 8GBs) and then create a RAM disk and run FL player database from there.
For the RAM disk we would use RamDisk Plus 9 (http://superspeed.com/desktop/ramdisk.php) which costs something but they claim it's able to allocate >4GB RAM even on a 32bit version of Windows XP. It also automatically saves the RAM disc image during shut-down and reloads it during startup so you don't need to care about that. The RAM disk would be copied onto HDD every hour or so to minimize the losses in case of a BSoD - this fortunately doesn't happen a lot.
We would of course have to purchase UPS this time, as a power failure would delete the RAM disk data.
The flserver currently loads 10-15mins after a crash or maintenance restart and this is caused by huge amount of character files (there are over 15000 characters in the database). We also run some server tools and those need to refresh the character base from time to time. And finally there could be some HDD related server lags that could be reduced this way. I am speaking about player DB backups and such.
Estimation of costs:
- 49$ for the RamDisk Plus 9 license
- 77$ for the 4GB RAM (154$ for 8GB)
- 98$ for the UPS
If you have any idea or see some risks we don't know about please post here.