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Chruser
2002-05-01, 07:33 AM
As we all know, making a popular and well updated gaming community takes alot of time and patience, but that's not one of the bigger problems these days. The biggest problem for an administrator is to pay the expensive bandwidth bills, which could easily scare most people off from attempting to start his or her own gaming community.

The regular banner advertising is going so bad these days it's pointless to use one, since less than 1% of the users decide to click on one. Many good sites have had to close lately, since their banners weren't enough to cover their expenses. Since we are a particulary new forum, our expenses haven't skyrocketed yet, but any regular gaming community member will know the rules for popularity. We provide you with the latest news and constant updates, which technically means that we'll get an uncontrollable amount of members, that will make our wallets more empty than and empty hole in our empty pockets!

The best ways to keep a gaming community alive is either to blackmail Bill Gates, or have the forum members donate a small amount of money, maybe once every month. Since nobody wants to go to jail, we would want you to donate some money via PayPal, so the Zelaron community can survive. Even a dollar is better than nothing, and if 100 members would donate one dollar once every month, since it would cover the current bandwidth/hosing cost for now, and would be greatly appreciated.

If you decide to donate a single dollar or more, we will change your forum title to "Zelaron Pal" and change the color of your dots for the following month, so nobody will have missed that you were kind enough to donate money to keep the forums alive.

We have decided to give anyone who donates more than $10 a month of hosting with the total sum * 0,5 mb storage, so for example, a donation of $14 would mean that you get a zelaron.com/yourname address for a month with 7 mb storage. It might not sound like a lot of room, but we never wanted it to be for file storage, since we already have big problems with bandwidth feels.
Your site would be extremely fast, and you would get linked to on the main page, which could bring a lot of visitors to your site. The main idea behind all of this is still that you can help us with the hosting fees, so you will get honored with an OC-48 backbone connection for a month.

Some basic rules about the hosting:
* No download archives
* No porn sites
* No links to bad/illegal material

Not so tricky, is it? If you are happy with the hosting and would like to keep the site after a month, feel free to contact me, and I'm sure we could come up with something.

http://www.zelaron.com/pr0n/paypal.gif (https://www.paypal.com/xclick/[email protected]&item_name=Zelaron.com+Donation&no_shipping=1)

Chruser
2002-05-01, 07:37 AM
Okay, here is a summary what you would get if you would donate, since that was a long read:

* New forum user title; "Zelaron Pal"
* Zelaron.com/yoursite
* Donation amount * 0,5 mb of storage (hosting a file archive would kill the whole purpose with donations to pay for the bandwidth)
* Respect from all the members

Please note that there is no way I can set up unlimited accounts, so if the hosting accounts would be full, I would hook you up with the hosting the month after, and make sure that you get something extra for your trouble.
Also remember that 5 mb would be the minimum amount of storage you could "pay" for, even if there are cheaper hosts out there ;)

Randuin
2002-05-01, 07:38 AM
darn i haven't got a credit card :( how can i still use pay pal tho? if this place stays alive until next year which is when i can get a job i'll donate probly about 25 a month if i could... :) i will support this place! i WILL :)

Chruser
2002-05-01, 07:41 AM
Don't worry, it will stay alive somehow.
I think PayPal would still require you to have a credit card in order to do payments, so there's no need to worry about that for now.

The only things you get after all is just some mad fast hosting, sexy user titles and lots of respect by helping us :D

Also, I could imagine that my bills would skyrocket even more next year, since forums tend to increase in popularity after that long for some reason. People won't think it's just a "newbie forum that will vanish" any longer.

Mr.Lee
2002-05-01, 07:44 AM
i can REALLY donate some money...
what's ur addres crusher?

Randuin
2002-05-01, 07:45 AM
use pay pal :) no address needed click on the link and donate

Chruser
2002-05-01, 07:45 AM
Click the button :D

If you're too lazy, it's [email protected] :D

Randuin
2002-05-01, 07:47 AM
lazyboi! :D hehe gameslink? i thought it was zelaron?

Chruser
2002-05-01, 07:48 AM
I've had that paypal account for about five times as long as Zel itself, so there's really no need for me to change that account.

I'll probably set up [email protected] as soon as I get the email accounts to work properly.

Randuin
2002-05-01, 07:50 AM
:) btw nice quote from sig... rofl

Mr.Lee
2002-05-01, 07:55 AM
too bad that i havent paypal..

JohnnyTAE
2002-05-01, 08:17 AM
I don't either can I send a money order :p that's the only way I would be able to donate
can you give some info on wut we need to do that

Randuin
2002-05-01, 08:21 AM
but the money might get lost in the mail...

Chruser
2002-05-01, 09:24 AM
Plus, I'd probably have to pay some outrageous amounts in order to withdraw it. PayPal is still a good way for this, but we'll see :/

Randuin
2002-05-01, 03:32 PM
that means i better drink some age potion to get to 18 :)

mightychicken
2002-05-04, 10:28 AM
Originally posted by Randuin
that means i better drink some age potion to get to 18 :)

lets see thats... 1...2...3... ten doses you need to take.

Randuin
2002-05-04, 02:29 PM
and it'll take u 9999999999 doses? if one dose gave u 10 years of age

tacoX
2002-05-04, 10:49 PM
Lets get one topic here, god damn.

mightychicken
2002-05-05, 08:34 AM
Originally posted by tacoX
Lets get one topic here, god damn.

just a sec.

Originally posted by Randuin
and it'll take u 9999999999 doses? if one dose gave u 10 years of age

not only is that a terrible flame but you've failed to accomplish your own defense from my flame.

Randuin
2002-05-05, 08:51 PM
this ain't a flaming forum

Chruser
2002-06-08, 04:35 AM
Unstickied, since nobody seems to care anyway.

Mr.Lee
2002-06-08, 11:34 AM
I can support you by money order :p

BlueCube
2002-06-24, 12:31 PM
How about cold hard cash (a dollar in an envelope, maybe with a letter)? But we'd need an address, though I bet Chruser would hate to give that out...

WetWired
2002-06-24, 01:13 PM
According to him you'd spend more shipping it to him than you would put in the envelope.

Not to stop you from trying, of course.
--WetWired

Jamesadin
2002-06-26, 07:40 AM
hmm, if I do any money thing over the internet my parents would kill me =( I would die the next morning.

Gsus
2003-03-15, 09:33 PM
muhahahhaha, 8 months later someone donates! give me my storage punks! j/k...well, we shall see.