BPN Fundraising Drive
With the ever increasing popularity of the BPN website our current dedicated server is fast approaching it's limits as far as server resources and power are concerned. We have been on a steady rise in popularity on our website over the last 18 months. Over that time we have had to upgrade our web server several times to keep up with demand. We are at the point now that if we have to continue to rent/lease a web server with enough power to keep up we will triple our monthly costs just for the next upgrade alone. Which gives us no other choice but to start saving up until we can purchase our own hardware. We have started a fundraising drive to raise funds to be able to purchase a brand new state of the art server with crazy amounts of power and plenty of room for growth.
Early purchasing homework has given us the following specs:
(1) Quad Core Xeon 2.5GHz processors w/ second slot for a second Xeon to be added later
8GB+ of DDR3 server rated RAM
(2) SAS 15,000RPM hard drives in RAID 1 for reliability and redundency
Redundant power supplies
SAS RAID controller card
Dual Gigabit NIC's
Now obviously depending on when we raise the amount of money these specs may go up as costs go down.
To sweeten the deal, put my money where my mouth is, and because I hate to ask for money/donations I/Schlup am going to donate $500 on top of the $3000 in the fundraising drive. That means that if the community can come up with $3000 I will come up with $500, and maybe more depending on what configuration services will cost. The server will then be fully owned by the BulletProof Nerds Gaming Community. This will also decrease our monthly recurring charges that we have to pay each month because we won't have to rent the server anymore, we'll only have to pay for the bandwidth and the rack charges at the datacenter which is a little bit less expensive (as well as the game server which is a different server that BPN wholly owns and operates now). I realize times are tough for everybody but every little bit helps and if you are one of the more fortunate folks who can afford to contribute a little extra chunk of money to this cause it is very much appreciated by everyone in the community.
So without further ado the chip in module for this fundraising drive is below, click on "Chip In" to use your PayPal account or a credit card processed through PayPal. If anyone has any questions about this you can feel free to email me at Schlup[at]bulletproofnerds.com
Special thanks goes out to the following people for supporting this fundraiser:
AngryYankee
SniperP_99
64m3
Whippet
ChinoKim
Deagroth
Monkey_Grill
