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<blockquote data-quote="Bennett Prescott" data-source="post: 15065" data-attributes="member: 4">Re: Bandwidth Ain&#039;t Free!Several users have raised valid complaints that, while donating directly to our hosting costs is nice, those funds go into a &#039;&#039;lockbox&#039;&#039; that we have no access to. We cannot use that money if we need to switch hosts. We also cannot use it to buy software licenses, register trademarks, take out ads, pay moderators, fund community events, or anything else that we didn&#039;t think of when we started this forum less than two days ago. Since this is growing at a rate we never anticipated, this sort of thing becomes a concern.&nbsp;Right now we have enough in the Dreamhost account to pay for over a year of hosting at our current utilization rate. It is likely that our server usage will go up, but even with their moderately expensive plan we can pay for more than half a year.&nbsp;Therefore we&#039;ve opened a business PayPal account that you can donate to, and that we can use to not only pay for hosting, but also for any other expense.&nbsp;Please find a new &#039;&#039;Donate&#039;&#039; button at the bottom of every page that will let you use PayPal to make a donation of any amount. If you dislike PayPal (and trust me, I understand) PM David Karol or myself and we&#039;ll give you a snail mail address.[ATTACH]149549[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bennett Prescott, post: 15065, member: 4"] Re: Bandwidth Ain't Free! Several users have raised valid complaints that, while donating directly to our hosting costs is nice, those funds go into a ''lockbox'' that we have no access to. We cannot use that money if we need to switch hosts. We also cannot use it to buy software licenses, register trademarks, take out ads, pay moderators, fund community events, or anything else that we didn't think of when we started this forum less than two days ago. Since this is growing at a rate we never anticipated, this sort of thing becomes a concern. Right now we have enough in the Dreamhost account to pay for over a year of hosting at our current utilization rate. It is likely that our server usage will go up, but even with their moderately expensive plan we can pay for more than half a year. Therefore we've opened a business PayPal account that you can donate to, and that we can use to not only pay for hosting, but also for any other expense. [B]Please find a new ''Donate'' button at the bottom of every page that will let you use PayPal to make a donation of any amount.[/B] If you dislike PayPal (and trust me, I understand) PM David Karol or myself and we'll give you a snail mail address. [ATTACH=CONFIG]149549.vB5-legacyid=774[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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