August 2022 Donations & Finances

[Cipher]

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.

 

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Last Month: July 2022

 

Last month we accepted $4,355.90 in donations, $15.02 over our target for the month. As always, any additional funding remaining at the end of each month is put towards our operating expenses for the following month or additional expenses for the current month.

 

Here is the breakdown of our operating expenses for July:

• $4,031.87 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
• $120.97 for our Google G-Suite services
• $97.20 for domain renewals from NameCheap
  • Will be included as an expense for August as it was not included in our original target for July
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $19.25 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email
• $9.73 for security / administration software

 

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This Month: August 2022

 

The donation target for August 2022 is $4,298.33. Here is a breakdown of how the funds are allocated:

• $4,031.87 for our hardware infrastructure from OVH
• $121.57 for our Google G-Suite services
• $97.20 for domain renewals from NameCheap
• $25.00 for our Air instance from Paperspace
• $19.25 for the AWS EC2 instance serving our email
• $10.00 for forum assets license renewal
• $9.73 for security / administration software

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Our donation system will be open as of the time of this post with a donation target of $4,298.33 and will automatically close once that target is met.

 

- The Homecoming Team

[Anker Steadfast]

I'm in with $10,- 😁

 

Donation goal already at 29.8% after only 24 minutes.

Edited July 30, 2022 by Anker Steadfast

[Marine X]

Money well spent.

 

[Qwerty MacDoogal]

Thank you so much for the work and effort you all put in. I love playing CoX. 20 bucks here. Curious though. Why did it take 54 minutes to alert me through Discord? 

Edited July 30, 2022 by Qwerty MacDoogal

[Ohsirus]

Donated!

[starro]

As always COH community - 1 hour into announcement and almost 50%!  So much appreciation for devs, volunteers and people who run groups/teams.

[Abraxus]

Gladly contributed to the cause.  This game remains the only one that I play, and the only one that I really look forward to playing.  Even after 18 years.

[Tacheyon]

And Done!  Finally got a chance to after a few lean months and bad timing.

[TorontoSunshine]

Donated! Villainy Shall Continue!!! 

[Science Charles]

I'm a brand new CoX player, and just got started about a month ago. It felt good to be able to donate to keep this amazing thing going! Thanks very much to the devs, GMs, and players who make it all possible.

[Asacledhae]

And done from me as well!

Glad to contribute to our game as usual!

 

See you guys in-game.

[Troo]

[TorontoSunshine]

We're done!

 

So, do we have the full month to meet every  goal? Because of  rising costs in gas and food thanks to inflation, people are understandably reluctant to donate. I get that and understand completely. 

Edited July 30, 2022 by TorontoSunshine
Really terrible sentence structure. I blame the heroes.

[Ironblade]

42 minutes ago, TorontoSunshine said:

So, do we have the full month to meet every  goal? Because of  rising costs in gas and food thanks to inflation, people are understandably reluctant to donate. I get that and understand completely. 

Probably, but it never even takes a full day.  And these aren't little donations.  Based on the total dollars and number of donations, the average is almost $29.

[Glacier Peak]

1 hour ago, Ironblade said:

Probably, but it never even takes a full day.  And these aren't little donations.  Based on the total dollars and number of donations, the average is almost $29.

Ha! That's cool and likely accurate, I threw $25 to our HC Overlords to keep the lights on. 

[GoldenAvariel]

When I manage to get in on it, I donate $30 to represent the old sub price for my wife and I. I donated as soon as I got back in town and the goal said it was $5 short when I finished. 20 minutes later it had accumulated another couple of hundred dollars. I would absolutely hate it if the lights went out again.

[TorontoSunshine]

On 7/30/2022 at 9:34 PM, Glacier Peak said:

to our HC Overlords to keep the lights on.

 

And my donation went to ensuring banks are never safe from robberies and rich people are never safe from kidnappings!