You mean that in addition to the subscription donations MTS2 needs that amount, or that they still don't appear automatically?

I think that the most useful informaton would be the amount needed not counting the subscription: in this way, if we get near the end of the month and still MTS2 needs money, even the subscribers can add a normal donation.

Anon -
Duh ..... yeah, right ..... Paypal. Gulp. Will donate ASAP.

Numenor,
The subscriptions will pay for normal month's rent of the servers without a problem, but the setup fee is almost a full month's rent by itself. We have to basically pay for 2 months at once in order to move.

You can do a direct credit card donation, through paypal. I haven't had any problems with 'em and you do not have to have a paypal account. Just go there through the linky thing and scroll down a bit, it'll say - don't have an account with paypal? click here

Just checked out the front page and we're nearly halfway.....that's pretty good

Yeah, it's going *very* well, imo.

I put in what little money I had stored in my Paypal account. It's a measly amount, but if 1% of the site's members donated even a pathetic sum like I did, you would have way more than enough. Come on fellow members! Although he wouldn't turn down BIG bucks, tiny amounts add up quickly. Give anything you can.

I just got a munged thankyou.php script once I'd donated
.... and the donation amount didn't update after refreshing

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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>14</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_select_db(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>16</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_select_db(): A link to the server could not be established in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>16</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>18</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>18</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_num_rows(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>19</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>22</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>22</b><br />

Thank you for your payment. Your transaction has been completed, and a receipt for your purchase has been emailed to you. You may log into your account at www.paypal.com/row to view details of this transaction.
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The current total is now:
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_query(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>31</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_query(): A link to the server could not be established in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>31</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_fetch_row(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>32</b><br />
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<b>Warning</b>: mysql_close(): no MySQL-Link resource supplied in <b>/home/forums/public_html/thankyou.php</b> on line <b>35</b><br />

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and howq much would paypal cost me. (i don't use pay-pal.)

Bobi,

Thanks for that - I just checked and the second webserver didn't have the correct copy of the thankyou.php file so I just updated it.

Can everybody who got the error please PM me the amount and the paypal transaction ID and I'll update it.

Sorry about that folks.

Delphy

paypal is free to use dean

My donation was correctly displayed in few seconds; seems that the new code is working fine.

I just sent my donation in and I wish it could have been more, but I do know that is someone else matched my ten dollars and another matches . Maybe a snowball affect will come about.

Here ya go, Dean! This part of PayPal's website might explain things better: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webs...r_intro-outside

Hope this helps

For the pleasure this site has given me and my Sims, I'm delighted to make a donation

Hey guys,

I might actually have a more affordable and reliable server solution for you if you are interested. As well as, a better software (PHP/BB & Nuke) package that provides Forums, Galleries, Downloads and Online Store if you are interested (current forum structure/posts/formats should be able to port over seamlessly).

I don't know how many members you have (we have a little over 200,000 members between 2 websites), but our (many) servers are very reliable and we wouldn't hammer you with bandwidth fees.

If you are interested, please send me a PM.

Jack

PS... our servers are also a thousand times faster... no offense.

I just sent my donation in too. I love this site and want to see it keep going like the energizer bunny. Keep donating!!:thumb:

OK we are almost there!!!!!!! Come on every one get out you penny jar! if every one gave $10 or $5 or EVEN $1 that would be enuff to keep things going for along time!!! Pay Pal Is easy and free! Or maybe Tkd and delphy could post a PO box address that you could send a monEy order to. COME on alllllllllmost there!!!
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Nova

RHStudios,

phpBB and nuke would not be a better software solution for us, and we've already ordered the new hardware. Plus, the current site runs on 2 x dual 3.06ghz Xeon servers and they are constantly maxed at 90% cpu all the time... so hardware wise, the machines are pretty powerful, but given the type of site we run the servers are struggling.

Thanks though.

I had no problems. Gave $30

And I see were almost there, less than $100 to go

Yeah!!!! We Did It!!!!!!

Yay! I just want to say a big thanks to everybody that donated!

*hugs to you all

I've reset the donation amount and taken off the target, but I'll put it back next month for proper monthly costs

We use the same server solutions as you, which in my opinion a darn good machines, but I can't understand why you would be running such a heavy server load, unless it has to do with the software requesting too much information from the user database during a member's session. And/or possibly that a member's session "time out" might be configured to be on too long after a member's left.

Either way a 90% server load is not good (which you know this already), another idea would be to section off certain portions of the website that get the heaviest amount of traffic to different servers, which it sounds like you have been doing.

Either way, if there is anything that I can do to help, please let me know.

Jack

now that you've reached the target amount, have you figured out when the site will be down to do the upgrading?