Hi community,
We're looking into buying a new server to replace our main gameserver, MrBlonde. There are several reasons to why we want to replace MrBlonde;
- Server is becoming old and is showing defects. Out of 16 memory slots only 5 remain working leaving us with 5 instead of 16GB RAM.
- Due to it's hardware issues this server is causing small freezes and laggyness on the gameservers hosted on it
- Hardware is becoming outdated, when we bought the machine hardware requirements to host games were 25-50% lower then they are today
What do we plan on doing with this new machine?
- Move over all current servers from old MrBlonde to the new MrBlonde, these are TF2, L4D2, CS:GO and KF
- Move the minecraft servers off MrGreen so space becomes available on our windows platform to host games which don't support Linux (For example, DayZ). MC on it's turn will have more resources available if required
- Other stuff we haven't thought about yet
From the old server we'll only move the harddisks over to the new machine, these harddisks are high performance 15.000RPM SAS drives. Due to the new hardware the server quality will improve greatly and we'll have more space available to host other games.
As you would expect, new hardware costs money. As we are a community, and I simply cannot bring up the money on my own, we'll need your support! Our expectations are that the new server will be quite a bit cheaper than our previous buys (which where between 2500,- and 3000,- for each server), somewhere around 2000,- Euro's.
I am willing to chip in 1000,- Euro's to head start the funding, the other 50% needs to come from you guy's and gals!
As soon as I know it's exact price and spec's I'll be updating this thread. (Currently informing on configurations and best prices)
There are several way's of donating to specialattack. You can donate using paypal, direct bank transfer or through regular mail(not advised). If you have no access to paypal or international bank transfers, contact me and we'll sort out a way. If you donate, please mention it's for the new machine! (We still need to pay for the monthly datacenter costs as well, which I am willing to carry on my own as long as we're collecting funds for the new machine).
Thanks for helping out, and remember, no donation is too small! Every penny counts and gets us closer to our goals. Of course you'll be rewarded for your donations. Currently we can reward in TF2 and MC. For CS:GO we're still converting SpA points to be able to work there.
- The SpecialAttack community (you, me, them, everybody!)
Current donations:
Saint K. 1000,-
_9mmNL_ 200,-
Dunken 200,-
DonDonDon 25,-
annarack 100,-
Blackhawk 100,-
Frimple 375,-
Total: 2000,-
To go: 0,-
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