City Council Cipher Posted July 31, 2021 City Council Share Posted July 31, 2021 Hello everyone! Quick reminder that we'll be hosting the official Summer Costume Contest today! More information is available here. As always with these posts, I’d like to drop a quick reminder 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. 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. Additionally, 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 37 boosts and will lose our Level 3 perks if we drop below 30 for more than a few days. We greatly appreciate everyone who has put their Nitro boosts towards our Discord server! July 2021 Breakdown Last month we accepted $4,367.35 in donations, $13.86 over our target for the month. As always, all remaining funds will be put towards our operating expenses for the upcoming month. Here is the breakdown of what June’s funds went towards: $4,290.45 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH $121.57 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 $7.99 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email August 2021 The donation target for August 2021 is $4,560.51. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated: $4,290.45 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH $121.57 for our Google G-Suite services $110.20 for 4 1-year domain renewals $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira (Cloud) service $9.73 for security / administration software $8.56 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 $4,560.51 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...
Bionic_Flea Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 But Cipher, why does Jimmy torture me so? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glacier Peak Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 🤑 Pocket D Zone Tour Best Post Ever.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeregrineFalcon Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 You must be starting these later. I actually made it this time. Yay! 😁 1 "It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire posts, the posts become warning points. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion." Being constantly offended doesn't mean you're right, it means you're too narcissistic to tolerate opinions different than your own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abraxus Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 I'm down for this month! 1 What was no more, is REBORN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraspingVileTerror Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Almost two hours in, and still under 50%? Huh. I guess folks are away on vacation or busy getting set up for the long weekend. Or mayhaps just a fluke this month. I'll probably check back in an hour or something only to discover the remainder gets slapped in after only another fifteen minutes or so. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asacledhae Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Happy to contribute once again. Happy "CoH-ing" everyone! 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asacledhae Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 2 minutes ago, GraspingVileTerror said: Almost two hours in, and still under 50%? Huh. I guess folks are away on vacation or busy getting set up for the long weekend. Or mayhaps just a fluke this month. I'll probably check back in an hour or something only to discover the remainder gets slapped in after only another fifteen minutes or so. Possibly so, it's summer time, and usually people are on vacation, or avoiding to sit on their computers due to high heats.. It's 40 *BLEEPING* degrees Celsius out here, I also turned on the PC later this month... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agentx5 Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Good grief OVH is ridiculously expensive... Have y'all ever looked at something like Datapacket.com? That's what Discord uses to host it's servers in the USA, and it has VPN access control with DDoS protection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
City Council Telephone Posted July 31, 2021 City Council Share Posted July 31, 2021 2 hours ago, agentx5 said: Good grief OVH is ridiculously expensive... Have y'all ever looked at something like Datapacket.com? That's what Discord uses to host it's servers in the USA, and it has VPN access control with DDoS protection. Thanks very much for the suggestion! We're always looking at ways to reduce our expenses. I did spend some time reviewing Datapacket, and unfortunately, for the servers we need (even if we were to reduce our redundancy level), they would be significantly more expensive than OVH is for us. Please check out Cipher's excellent post from last year where he goes into a deep dive on our finances: We do review our hardware periodically and are in the middle of a process to consolidate some of our hosts, reducing costs. Due to limited hardware availability (I suspect the chip shortage may have something to do with this), this is taking longer than we had expected (but the charges for our new hardware will not begin until it actually arrives). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ringo Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 Doldrums of summer, eh? I did my bit, gotta keep Paragon City alive! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apparition Posted July 31, 2021 Share Posted July 31, 2021 3 hours ago, GraspingVileTerror said: Almost two hours in, and still under 50%? Huh. I guess folks are away on vacation or busy getting set up for the long weekend. Or mayhaps just a fluke this month. I'll probably check back in an hour or something only to discover the remainder gets slapped in after only another fifteen minutes or so. I have noticed that the overall population on both Torchbearer and Excelsior has been down quite a bit over the past few weeks. I am sure vacations while lockdowns are lifted is a big part of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayboH Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 What happened to the huge lawyer fees? Flint Eastwood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peerless Girl Posted August 1, 2021 Share Posted August 1, 2021 I believe those only happen every quarter or so, not every month, probably some coming. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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