AAAA Funding

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AAAA Funding

Hi all I have had some bad news and I have lost my job at the end of this month, I will not be able to continue funding AAAA until I find another job. I have a couple of options but some disruption will be unavoidable.

Rest assured that existing regular clan's who have donated will not loose their servers, but I may have to consolidate the existing dedi boxes to one -
Performance will not be effected as I will upgrade that box. - We are not that far off on the second dedi box but as my own clan is also funded by myself that will be the first to be stripped down to a single server. All test and dev servers will be shut down. AAAA League match Servers will be reduced to 1/2

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

 

 

Cheers

  Heatsinkbod

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Re: AAAA Funding

At this point I am still working on best solution but the following have to be actioned now -:

2 MEGA servers have been shut down due to no funding from clan.
AAAA match servers 2 and 3 shut down - These servers have not been used much and AAAA League will still have 2 match servers.
All Test and DEV servers will be shut down.
AAAA Feature server has been shut down.

With regret I will need to move a few clans servers to another box - I will not allow any clan to suffer performance issues and I will refund any one who is not happy!!! I have never made any profit from this and with great regret I action this now but I need to sort this now as I will not be able to support this further until I find employment.

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

 

 

Cheers

  Heatsinkbod

&nb

Re: AAAA Funding

Heatsink. What is the total overall personal cost of running the site. Can you print a breakdown of the AAAA expenditure, as to assess weather help can be given ??.

Re: AAAA Funding

castro wrote:
Heatsink. What is the total overall personal cost of running the site. Can you print a breakdown of the AAAA expenditure, as to assess weather help can be given ??.

Hi - Our running costs are as follows -:

Dedicated Servers - Dedi Starter Package
91.192.210.152 - Fireworks1 £47.99 GBP Monthly 13/09/2011

Web Hosting - GD Shared Bronze Webspace
aaaa.gamingdeluxe.co.uk £1.99 GBP Monthly 13/09/2011

Dedicated Servers - Dedi Starter Package
Ramsay - 109.70.148.92 £40.00 GBP Monthly 13/09/2011

Both boxes are the same spec we just got a deal on the second with GD

As can be seen their is no issue with the website, and its not as if we are going to close down I just need it to fund itself as any overhead I have after September is going to be an issue.

With respect to the 3 major clan's we host who all have multiple servers - these are spread over the two dedi box's, between those and 2 other single server rentals already present Dedi 1 is self funding.

Dedi 2 is the shortfall approx £17 - This is down to one server that is not being paid for at present - Still working on that with client. and the Rest is spare capacity. Have been trying to get some more clans to come on board but this is an ongoing process.

So my Thoughts were to drop to a single box and double the memory and stop all non paid servers. This would then support all servers plus AAAA match server. This is just an option at this stage but I just need to get to a postion that I am not worrying about any short falls Wink

From this we would just loose the backup Teamspeak..............

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

 

 

Cheers

  Heatsinkbod

&nb

Re: AAAA Funding

Have had a small update on my job situ - my contract has been extend till end of September so not going to progress any further for now as gives me a chance to find another job and try and get some more clans on board to support the second dedi - will keep you posted Beer

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

 

 

Cheers

  Heatsinkbod

&nb

Re: AAAA Funding

I have running a ts3 server but its not up and used atm. If you like you can use scapp's ts3 server as a backup.

<p>http://www.scapp.net</p>
Re: AAAA Funding

Hi Joto thanks for that - If we go down to one Dedi that would help cheers, I have had another extension on my Contract till end of October so hoping to get things sorted to we can stay as we are Wink

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

 

 

Cheers

  Heatsinkbod

&nb

Re: AAAA Funding

bigkashonka wrote:
Hey Jon, sorry to hear about your personal circumstance, but you know if we at LKW can help, then let us know, we will be happy to do what we can whether financially or if we need to give up the test server to give you more options.

In the past we also server shared a FTAG server with DOH, so maybe we do something there too or whatever....keep us informed so we can try to help............IN SOME WAY...

I personally know what effort and time is spent on this..........ALTHOUGH THE IDIOTS?CHEATS we get on our servers think that its all free....mmmm

We wont let it all go to waste......keep us in the know.
Regards Kenny

Thanks Kenny - we would not be where we are now with out the help of LKW and all the others clans/players and supporters on-board, Its not looking to bad, I do think we need to continue on the existing 2 dedi solution but already we have a fall back plan. But I just need to get the second dedi covered just in-case things dont work out my end, but rest assured I wont let all this go down the pan.

Trying to get a few more clan servers onboard and also look at some Advert space for third parties but on small scale and something that wont clog up the site.

Happy shooting - Kill em ALL and kill em again

 

 

Cheers

  Heatsinkbod

&nb