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Donation Drive

BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
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It's time for another donation drive! There's a major bill coming up soon and Sanfam is in dire need of money to pay it. If you can, donate something (anything will do) at [url=https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=donate%40firstones.com&item_name=FirstOnes.com&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD]donate@firstones.com[/url] using [url=https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=donate%40firstones.com&item_name=FirstOnes.com&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD]PayPal![/url]

[url=https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=donate%40firstones.com&item_name=FirstOnes.com&no_note=1&tax=0&currency_code=USD]Click here to make a donation[/url]

Comments

  • BosHausBosHaus Trainee
    You've got some money in your mailbox!

    -The roaming philantropist
  • Ranger BrianRanger Brian The Anti-Scrooge
    Just out of interest, how much of the bandwidth is used by the various mods, and do any of them pay towards the upkeep?
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Well, the mods themselves comprise most of the site's bandwidth. At the top is IFH, followed by Buda5, and (only in terms of hits...)...the Sims.

    Outside of those, it's a pretty even spread. Not much seems to change.
  • Ranger BrianRanger Brian The Anti-Scrooge
    So how much is it costing each month? (If you don't mind me asking). As it doesn't seem that long ago since the last donation drive?

    Has the popularity of the mods increased the costs?

    (Oh and donation sent).
  • AkrovahAkrovah Ranger
    On the way.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    the server costs $85 a month, and you are correct, it hasn't been long since the last donation drive. The problem lately has been that we're always going over in bandwidth, which costs $2.50 per gigabyte exceeding the limit. It adds up *really* quickly. Though, this latest overage really threw us into a massive panic.
  • BigglesBiggles <font color=#AAFFAA>The Man Without a Face</font>
    It was very unexpected and caused by non-normal operation that has hopefully been cleared up now. The problem is that we now have a lot of extra money to pay in overage fees.
  • David of MacDavid of Mac Elite Ranger Ca
    How about we do it like the public broadcasting drives? Every third page load (for example), a full-page thing comes up advising people to donate, that then has to be clicked through.

    Maybe you could rip off... that is to say, get some inspiration from [url=http://www.code7r.org/joke/molgrp.html]this[/url], for that vital Babylon 5 flavor.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    Well, I don't quite want to advertise heavily. However, I'm looking into placing a rotating banner or other object somewhere into the major pages for the site for amazon or such.
    something neat and usable, but not flashy or distracting. So...yeah. I'll see if I can get a sample posted up later.
  • BekennBekenn Sinclair's Duck
    You might try Google ads. They appear at the bottom of the page, text-only and non-obtrusive, and usually have something to do with the topic being discussed.
  • BosHausBosHaus Trainee
    How about big flash ads that appear over everything in the page and don't go away for 30-60 seconds? Even clicking them won't make them go away.. stupid ads.
  • SanfamSanfam I like clocks.
    I've seriously considered google text ads. Since they can be formatted to fit in almost transparently, it'd be a perfect way to get some income without any horrible banners (And banners themselves proved to be ineffective many times before, so...)
  • ShadowDancerShadowDancer When I say, "Why aye, gadgie," in my heart I say, "Och aye, laddie." London, UK
    $15 comin your way;)
  • Falcon1Falcon1 Elite Ranger
    How many kidneys has Sanfam got left now? :p

    Actually save your kidney, just sent some greens ;)
  • Random ChaosRandom Chaos Actually Carefully-selected Order in disguise
    [QUOTE][i]Originally posted by David of Mac [/i]
    [B]How about we do it like the public broadcasting drives? Every third page load (for example), a full-page thing comes up advising people to donate, that then has to be clicked through.

    Maybe you could rip off... that is to say, get some inspiration from [url=http://www.code7r.org/joke/molgrp.html]this[/url], for that vital Babylon 5 flavor. [/B][/QUOTE]

    Well...if we want annoying requests for donations perhaps we should use popups. That way almost every Firstones regular that uses Mozilla gets to not see them :D
  • Emissary for DrakhEmissary for Drakh Trainee
    I second for the google ads. I'd click once in a while just to keep things rolling.
  • QuigoniQuigoni Trainee
    Well I know you don't want to change hosts, but just to let people know, powweb.com offers 5gb of bandwidth per DAY. @_@;

    A domain for an anime convention I'm helping organize is using it and we have some pretty heavy usage. The place gets the job done as far as bandwidth is concerned.


    -Quigoni
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