Matt
28-09-2003 23:27:41
Drunkit is in financial difficulty.
We have one of three options:
a. Help Matt raise the £70 needed to keep Drunkit free and going for another year.
b. Put some form of advertisement on the site and hope that it raises £70 for Drunkit for another year.
c. Don't put any money in and not have Drunkit any more
Basically, I have to pay £70 by January 5th 2004. I cannot realistically afford this. As much as I would like to pay for Drunkit again, I have personally paid for it for over four years now - including putting in 90% of the work and 100% of the money. I simply cannot afford to do this any more.
How can we help?
First of all, I have never asked for money before. All of Drunkit has been paid for out of my own pocket. This includes the original £100 set up fee. I have never asked, nor recieved any form of profit or income from Drunkit, nor do I wish to make one.
Secondly, £10 is 60p a week. You spend more than that on a single drink in Mission on a Sunday. If you've been visiting Drunkit since the start (about four years now), that's 5 pence a day. On the assumption you visit three times a day, that's just over two pence for every visit - which probably brings you joy.
Thirdly, many people rely on Drunkit to keep talking to their friends etc. The scope is wider than the regular members. Many non-active people visit Drunkit frequently. They deserve a say too.
On these points, I hope you will find compassion in the need for Drunkit to continue. This is not sudden and indeed you may wish to bestow some money on Drunkit as a Christmas present.
If you think you can get hosting for cheaper than £70 a year (which is very reasonable), that's fantastic. However, Drunkit must have:
Essentially, if you think you can help please, please, please reply here stating how much you can help by. If you know a cheaper/comparable hosting solution, please tell me. I am keen to stick with this company for now, as their service has been very good. But if cheaper can be found, that takes priority.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you can find it to support Drunkit. Even if you cannot afford to support Drunkit in this way, I thank you for taking the time to read this.
--Matt
We have one of three options:
a. Help Matt raise the £70 needed to keep Drunkit free and going for another year.
b. Put some form of advertisement on the site and hope that it raises £70 for Drunkit for another year.
c. Don't put any money in and not have Drunkit any more
Basically, I have to pay £70 by January 5th 2004. I cannot realistically afford this. As much as I would like to pay for Drunkit again, I have personally paid for it for over four years now - including putting in 90% of the work and 100% of the money. I simply cannot afford to do this any more.
How can we help?
- By putting in £5 you can really help keep Drunkit alive.
- £10 will almost certainly guarentee a new Drunkit
- £20 will Decidedly rescue Drunkit
First of all, I have never asked for money before. All of Drunkit has been paid for out of my own pocket. This includes the original £100 set up fee. I have never asked, nor recieved any form of profit or income from Drunkit, nor do I wish to make one.
Secondly, £10 is 60p a week. You spend more than that on a single drink in Mission on a Sunday. If you've been visiting Drunkit since the start (about four years now), that's 5 pence a day. On the assumption you visit three times a day, that's just over two pence for every visit - which probably brings you joy.
Thirdly, many people rely on Drunkit to keep talking to their friends etc. The scope is wider than the regular members. Many non-active people visit Drunkit frequently. They deserve a say too.
On these points, I hope you will find compassion in the need for Drunkit to continue. This is not sudden and indeed you may wish to bestow some money on Drunkit as a Christmas present.
If you think you can get hosting for cheaper than £70 a year (which is very reasonable), that's fantastic. However, Drunkit must have:
- At least 5gb bandwidth a month
- At least 200mb disk space
- The ability to have 50+ subdomains
- Full CGI (Perl 5+) Scripting and full PHP (4.1.2+) support
- At least five databases (MySQL strongly prefered)
- Full access control via ftp (ssh/telnet desired, but not required)
- IMAP (or, less desirably) POP3 email support -- with the ability to include at least 10 accounts (preferably more)
- A UNIX based sever running Apache
Essentially, if you think you can help please, please, please reply here stating how much you can help by. If you know a cheaper/comparable hosting solution, please tell me. I am keen to stick with this company for now, as their service has been very good. But if cheaper can be found, that takes priority.
Thanks for reading this and I hope you can find it to support Drunkit. Even if you cannot afford to support Drunkit in this way, I thank you for taking the time to read this.
--Matt
