City Council Cipher Posted September 25, 2021 City Council Share Posted September 25, 2021 Hello everyone! 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 greatly appreciate everyone who has put their Nitro boosts towards our Discord server! September 2021 Breakdown Last month we accepted $4,528.35 in donations, $49.83 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 September’s funds went towards: $4,290.45 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH + $428.33 charged separately for the SCALE-3 server that was delivered (this will be included in October’s target) $121.46 for our Google G-Suite services $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace $19.83 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email $15.00 to pay a 1-year domain renewal $10.00 for our Atlassian Jira (Cloud) service $9.73 for security / administration software October 2021 We received the first of three SCALE-3 servers last month and have been happy with the performance since bringing it into our live cluster. As such, we will be moving forward with our mapserver host hardware changes this month. Overall, here are the changes we’re going to be making this month: Two of our Advance-5 servers will be cancelled This will save us $710/mo going forward The remaining Advance-5 servers will be cancelled after the additional SCALE-3 servers are delivered Two additional SCALE-3 servers will be ordered These have a setup fee of $598 each, totalling $1,196 for this month The current delivery estimate for these is 30 days, but we’re anticipating it taking longer, based on the time it took to deliver the last SCALE-3 We will not be billed monthly for these until they are delivered and online The donation target for October 2021 is $5,851.75. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated: $4,094.46 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH + $1,196 to cover setup fees for the two additional SCALE-3 servers + $386.43 to cover the pro rata billing in September for the first SCALE-3 This was partially covered by the $49.83 in donations over our target last month $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 $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 $5,851.75 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...
GraspingVileTerror Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 About a half hour, and at 58%. Pretty solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suspicious Activity Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Is there a way to do a monthly subscription to donate? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shocktacular Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Ha! I actually got to donate this time! Keep up the good work, HC team! 😄 1 Want more from Praetoria? Check out my level 40+ Praetoria missions in AE! I've got 3 complete arcs, with a 4th in the works! Praetorians can get to AE in Pocket D by going through Studio 55. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glacier Peak Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 55 minutes ago, Suspicious Activity said: Is there a way to do a monthly subscription to donate? There is not currently. 1 Pocket D Zone Tour Best Post Ever.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jzke Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Happily donated keep up the work :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anker Steadfast Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 Happily donated $10 Already at 84% 😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrandX Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 This one seems to have taken longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anker Steadfast Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 It is night in Europe, I dunno if that makes it slower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asacledhae Posted September 25, 2021 Share Posted September 25, 2021 (edited) We'll get there, don't worry. Sometimes it takes longer, sometimes it ends in 20 minutes.. I was wrapped up with something else, and I just remembered about it... I'm glad i managed to donate again, though! 😁 Edited September 26, 2021 by Asacledhae 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glacier Peak Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 42 minutes ago, Asacledhae said: I was wrapped up with something else, and I just remembered about it... I'm glad i managed to donate again, though! 😁 Ha same here! 1 Pocket D Zone Tour Best Post Ever.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GraspingVileTerror Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 94% around the 5 hour mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game Master GM Crumpet Posted September 26, 2021 Game Master Share Posted September 26, 2021 All complete and fully funded for another month. Thank you to everyone who contributed 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironblade Posted September 26, 2021 Share Posted September 26, 2021 16 hours ago, Asacledhae said: I was wrapped up with something else, and I just remembered about it... I'm glad i managed to donate again, though! 😁 Yeah, we're usually busy and miss it. Yesterday we noticed the initial announcement so we put in $100 to make up for the missed months. 1 1 Originally on Infinity. I have Ironblade on every shard. - My only AE arc: The Origin of Mark IV (ID 48002) Link to the story of Toggle Man, since I keep having to track down my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Scorpion Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 Missed out because I was on vacation and out hunting geocaches in the Cascades... But I donated in spirit! 1 Unofficial Homecoming Wiki - Paragon Wiki updated for Homecoming! Your contributions are welcome! (Not the owner/operator - just a fan who wants to spread the word.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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