December 2021 Donations & Finances

[Cipher]

Hello everyone!

 

I hope you’ve been enjoying Issue 27, Page 3 and had a great Thanksgiving! 🦃

 

So you’re aware - we’ll be moving the next donation window to Saturday, December 18th, and suspending non-critical support from December 23rd through December 27th to give our volunteer GM team a much deserved break for the Holiday. During this time, we will be focused on critical and time-sensitive issues and you should expect longer-than-usual response times. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

 

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.

 

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Last Month: November 2021

 

Last month we accepted $5,740.46 in donations, $9.91 over our target for the month. As always, all remaining funds will be put towards our operating expenses for the upcoming month.

 

As expected, OVH billed us pro-rata for the new SCALE-3 servers. This totalled $394.06 and aligns the billing of these new servers with the rest of our services.

 

Here is the breakdown of what November’s funds went towards:

• $4,094.46 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
  • + $394.06 billed pro-rata for the two newer servers, covered in December
• $300.00 to renew our annual DocuSign subscription
  • Early renewal, included in November’s target
  • Billed last month, see previous post
• $137.76 for two domain renewals from Namecheap
  • Early renewal, included in November’s target
  • Billed last month, see previous post
• $121.28 for our Google G-Suite services
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $19.84 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email
• $9.73 for security / administration software

 

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This Month: December 2021

 

We brought the new SCALE-3 servers online and have cancelled the older servers that they are replacing. As such, starting this month, we will no longer be billed for them. For more information about these changes, please see this thread.

 

The donation target for December 2021 is $4,721.79. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated:

• $4,057.47 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
• $394.06 to cover the pro-rata invoice from November
• $121.57 for our Google G-Suite services
• $105.00 for our 6-month Invision Community renewal
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $9.73 for security / administration software
• $8.56 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email

 

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Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $4,721.79 and will automatically close once that target is met.

 

- The Homecoming Team

 

[justicebeliever]

First one to post!  Made a donation this month!  I'm usually not able to make it in time

 

Edited November 27, 2021 by justicebeliever

[Monty Haull]

Got mine in!

[Darkfuser2]

I donated $300.

COH is one of my favorite games of all time.

Thank you!!

[Asacledhae]

I'm here again...

Keep up the good work, people!

 

P.S.

Seismic Blast, is a "Blast"... I'm seriously enjoying it so far! 😁

See you guys in-game.

[ValkyrieLummi]

FINALLY I got to donate before it closed. huzzah!

EDIT: 😧 Oh god, Paypal fees?! Should I have donated with my card to not get you guys fees?!

Edited November 27, 2021 by ValkyrieLummi

[Bionic_Flea]

In!

[ChzBoi]

Whew...got in! Thanks Devs!

[Glacier Peak]

Not as much as I normally donate, but a little something still! I appreciate all of our community's devs, GMs, Homecoming Staff, and player base for keeping this game alive. Happy holidays!

[Anker Steadfast]

10 bucks jumped outta my wallet and floated your way. 😀

 

Only $200 to go before we reach the goal. 

Edited November 27, 2021 by Anker Steadfast

[Kendalls]

So happy to help out again.  ❤️

 

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Anker Steadfast]

Donation goal reached .. in less than 2 hours ... this community is solid.

[Abraxus]

Always happy to donate to a worthwhile cause.  In this case, it's my way of saying "Thank you!" to the folks that resurrected the only game I have wanted to play consistently for 15+ years.  The 8 that it was gone only made me want to play it even more, and now that it's back, I will always do what I can to ensure it stays around as long as there are Heroes, and Villains who want to play.

 

 

[Asacledhae]

2 hours ago, Anker Steadfast said:

Donation goal reached .. in less than 2 hours ... this community is solid.

Had a doubt? 😁