February 2022 Donations & Finances

[Telephone]

Hello all,

 

Unfortunately, CIpher is temporarily unavailable and unable to complete the finances report for Homecoming this month. However, as our OVH bill comes due on February 1st, we are opening donations for a total of $5,000.00 (last month's target was $4,242.30, as can be seen here).

 

As usual, any additional amount will be applied to next month. Cipher will update this post and thread with the full report as soon as he is available.

 

Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $5,000.00 and will automatically close once that target is met.

 

- The Homecoming Team

[Telephone]

Update by @Cipher

 

Hey all, apologies that our donations didn't open up at the normal time this month. This was an outlier for us and we'll be back to our normal schedule with the next donation window. Additionally, I hope to better our process so that we can still produce our monthly report and open donations on time in the event that I am unavailable to do so again in the future. I appreciate your patience and understanding.

 

As of the time of this update, we now have $954.08 in excess funds. This money will be put towards our operating expenses for next month (March). If you have any questions about this, please let me know.

 

Last Month: January 2021

 

Last month we accepted $4,302.91 in donations, $60.61 over our target for the month. As always, all remaining funds will be put towards our operating expenses for the upcoming month (March in this case due to the delay).

 

Here is the breakdown of what January's funds went towards:

• $4,057.47 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
• $121.29 for our Google G-Suite services
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $19.82 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email
• $9.73 for security / administration software (redacted below)

 

 

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This Month: February 2022

 

We do not have any changes or updates for this month.

 

The donation target for February 2022 would have been $4,172.02. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated:

• $4,057.47 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
• $121.57 for our Google G-Suite services
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $19.25 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email
• $9.73 for security / administration software

[ChzBoi]

"Thanks for donating $XX.XX USD to Homecoming Servers LLC" 

 

Made it in!! Keep up the fantastic work!!

Edited January 30, 2022 by ChzBoi

[SyphonFilter]

I was finally able to donate! I've always missed the window with the donation cap being met so quickly each month. It was a small amount, but I'm proud to have been able to make the donation. Much love to all the people making our home possible and to the community in general. Thank you so very much. 

[JAMMan0000]

Thank you for the opportunity to contribute 🙂

[Kendalls]

OMG i nearly missed again. Fortunately, I was able to get in before it closed!

What happen to "the last Saturday of every month"? Are we now "the last Sunday of every month"?

 

 

 

[Telephone]

1 minute ago, Kendalls said:

OMG i nearly missed again. Fortunately, I was able to get in before it closed!

What happen to "the last Saturday of every month"? Are we now "the last Sunday of every month"?

 

We had intended to open the donations yesterday, but unfortunately Cipher had some urgent personal business to attend to and wasn't able to complete the report in time. We expect donations for February to open on the normal Saturday the 26th.

 

Also, thank you (and everyone) for your support!

[yukkuri]

👍👍

[starro]

wow!  80% there allready

 

[bitplayr]

I usually miss the chance to donate. Glad I can help.

[Cobaltix]

Made it in time!

[Abraxus]

Did my monthly contribution to the cause.  I get a lot of value for that contribution, so I consider it entirely worth it.

[Asacledhae]

I'm disappointed... 

I hoped to make it this month, but i failed... 😒

Been waiting since yesterday, donations had to open while was eating dinner...

 

Hopefully next month you won't get away...

 

1 hour ago, Abraxus said:

Did my monthly contribution to the cause.  I get a lot of value for that contribution, so I consider it entirely worth it.

I know the feeling, and yes, It is worth it.. When i miss the window, i feel sad, and happy at the same time.. Sad cause i didn't manage to contribute, but happy, cause our city gets the love and support it requires to thrive.

 

Big thanks to everyone who managed to contribute this month!

[Anker Steadfast]

Dang, I missed the donation window. 😞 

Lets hope the 5k is enough.

[Cipher]

I've updated the reserved post with our report.

 

Thank you all so much for your support!

[Mr. Apocalypse]

As I sit here playing the best game ever made,  I just want to thank all of you that beat me to the punch with your donations.  Thanks again to all of you who, made it possible to step back into the City of heroes universe.

[yukkuri]

It's really awesome that you do these reports, thank you!

[JoeMage]

I got in in time to donate this month! 

[CienFuegos]

thanks for doing the hard part getting our game back to us 

[RogerWilco]

On 1/31/2022 at 6:02 AM, jeolman1 said:

As I sit here playing the best game ever made,  I just want to thank all of you that beat me to the punch with your donations.  Thanks again to all of you who, made it possible to step back into the City of heroes universe.

Very well said.

I would love it if we would be able to do some kind of monthly donation system at some point, but I understand that given the current circumstances that is not possible.

I hope to contribute again at the end of the month, I missed this one.