City Council Cipher Posted January 31, 2021 City Council Share Posted January 31, 2021 Hello everyone! This donation window is opening a day later than was originally planned but still covers our operating expenses for the same period (Jan. 31st ~ Feb. 27th). As usual, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that there are more ways to support Homecoming than just through donations. For a general overview of the different ways you can help Homecoming, check out this thread. ❗ If you have Discord Nitro then please consider using a Nitro server boost on our public Discord server. Maintaining over 30 Nitro boosts gives all of our members new and enhanced features on the server including additional emojis, a higher upload limit, better voice chat quality, and our vanity URL. Click here to read more about Server Boosting. We’re currently at 30 boosts and will lose our Level 3 perks if we drop below for more than a few days. We greatly appreciate everyone who has put their Nitro boosts towards our Discord server! Additionally, we’re always in need of more people to help test upcoming updates on our public beta server; the bug reports and feedback that we receive from testers helps us immensely. For more information on how to get started on the beta server, check out our Read This to Get Started thread and the rest of the Beta Forums. January 2021 Breakdown Last month we accepted $5,043.11 in donations, $194.43 over our target for the month. As always, the remainder is put towards the next month’s expenses. Here is the breakdown of what January’s funds went towards: $4,645.44 to OVH for our hosting $121.79 for our Google G-Suite Business account $25.00 for the Paperspace Air instance $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira Cloud instance $9.73 for the security / administration software $8.56 for our AWS EC2 instance which is serving our mail through Amazon SES February 2021 The donation target for February 2021 is $4,719.81. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated: $4,645.44 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH $121.17 for our Google G-Suite services $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira (Cloud) service $9.73 for security / administration software $8.28 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $4,719.81 and will automatically close once that target is met. As always, thank you for all of the support! - The Homecoming Team Cipher City Council If you need help, please submit a support request here or use /petition in-game. Got time to spare? Want to see Homecoming thrive? Consider volunteering as a Game Master! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjmoyer Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Done! Happy February! Edited January 31, 2021 by pjmoyer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrauleinMental Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I'm in. Thanks for keeping us online! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belldark Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Yea made it this month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanessaB Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Done and done. Thx for keeping the game alive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackiedrunkmonkey Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Done. Thx for keeping the game alive! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemporalVileTerror Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 We were getting nervous in Everlasting just a little while ago. Glad to see it was nothing to worry about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libirdty Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) Done! Happy to support this game I love!!! Edited January 31, 2021 by Libirdty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asacledhae Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 You were late this month. I almost didn't make it... Almost.. See you next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwitchFade Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I missed last month. So... $50 on it! Domino....M#th$r F@ck&rs 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starro Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 I clicked the link and it was at 99% after 30 minutes(?) Homecoming Team and Players = all amazing. 1 "She who lives by the cybernetic monstrosity powered by living coral, all too often dies by the cybernetic monstrosity powered by living coral." -Doc Buzzsaw Pineapple 🍍 Pizza 🍕 is my thumbs up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorontoSunshine Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Donated and the window is closed after 35 minutes! Love this community! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tacheyon Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Missed it by 10 mins! Damn that's amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wjrasmussen Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 again? I haven't gotten to this once without it being closed.......... I went to Ouroboros all i got was this lousy secret! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psy- Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 Finally managed to slide in a donation 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elminster Posted January 31, 2021 Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) I know I'm new here, but why is our hosting so expensive? I used to provide the hosting of the Public WoW server that I used to play on and that was less than 300 a month. Now that was a few years back but a buddy of mine runs a private COD server and he uses a professional hosting service that only runs about 1500 a month. Just curious why it's so expensive. Edited January 31, 2021 by Elminster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game Master GM Tock Posted January 31, 2021 Game Master Share Posted January 31, 2021 (edited) 1. 2. Homecoming operates five shards across two continents, four in Canada, one in Germany France. Covering 2,000 folks daily with room to expand up, vs. meting out resources so when there's a boom period we're not as likely to deal with queues and full servers. Edited February 1, 2021 by GM Tahquitz 2 Homecoming: City of Heroes -- Want to play? Start here. - Enjoy helping others? Join us as a GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemporalVileTerror Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 (edited) "France?" @GM Tahquitz, I was sure it was Germany. When did this change? Or did I just have the wrong information all this time? I just did a search, and the Privacy Policy states Germany. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/privacy-policy/ Edited February 1, 2021 by TemporalVileTerror Post-search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game Master GM Tock Posted February 1, 2021 Game Master Share Posted February 1, 2021 Fine, Germany. Still, five servers. 1 Homecoming: City of Heroes -- Want to play? Start here. - Enjoy helping others? Join us as a GM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrauleinMental Posted February 1, 2021 Share Posted February 1, 2021 8 hours ago, Keovar said: I guess you don't use Patreon because it may overfund and start looking like a profit-seeking venture? The monthly Patreon payments also could be perceived as a subscription, with whatever additional legal ramifications that might bring. There's also the extra cost that gets paid to Patreon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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