Please Help Support SUBSIM

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by neves_rats

I am at a loss as to how it can cost $600 per month. I do not disagree with the idea, just bemused at the cost.

When a website has a lot of traffic and bandwidth, as Subsim does, it takes a dedicated server to manage it. With SH5 coming in a few months, traffic here will double (at least). I run two servers from The Planet, https://www.theplanet.com/servers/pr/Default.aspx

Originally Posted by Gunfighter

Yep done that this week,Now can you take my name off the heading I feel a right jerk when I log on
Best Forum on the Web lets keep it that way

Just smile with pride you did your part. The fundraiser will end in a few days, and no one will hear me about $$ again for a while.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by DaveU186

Bandwidth costs money unfortunately. The downside of having a popular site is you use rather a lot of it.

Precisely....success often comes at a price

[TDK1044]

Donation made.

[VirtualVikingX]

$$ donateded. Dollars are quite cheap now, so i was able to donate a fair amount.

I missed the page the uregistered get to when they donate though.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

It will be a few days after Christmas before I can send a few dollars to Neal... but I'll be doing just that.

Guys, this is a valuable site. It is VITAL to the furtherance of PC submarine/naval simulations and is well worth your efforts to preserve it.

We may not see eye to eye on all matters that come our way, but you will likely never find a more tolerant site or administrator.

It is because Neal is so tolerant, that there is something useful here for EVERY user... in particular, and most important to me... LASTING FRIENDSHIPS. I imagine that for most of you, your situation is much like mine... You'd like to talk about submarine stuff to someone around you... and all you get is a bored stare. We submarine enthusiasts... are a rather strange breed after all! There are many more of us than there were a few years ago... but we are still few. THIS is the community with the only real gravitational pull in our niche.

For these reasons... it simply must survive. Any successor even pretending to replace Subsim in the future, would need years to take root... with 'costs' that do not require much imagination to envision.

Now imagine for a moment... this time next year, with no Subsim... and the members of this community scattered to the four winds.

Personally, I think I'd feel rather lost. How would you feel?

Great or small, I hope that each of you will do what you can to keep diesel in the tanks here.

[looney]

Me has donated I hate to run into the soupnazi

[InFlames666]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Now imagine for a moment... this time next year, with no Subsim... and the members of this community scattered to the four winds.

Personally, I think I'd feel rather lost. How would you feel?

yeah, i don't think SH would have made it this far if it wasn't for SubSim

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

It will be a few days after Christmas before I can send a few dollars to Neal... but I'll be doing just that.

Guys, this is a valuable site. It is VITAL to the furtherance of PC submarine/naval simulations and is well worth your efforts to preserve it.

We may not see eye to eye on all matters that come our way, but you will likely never find a more tolerant site or administrator.

It is because Neal is so tolerant, that there is something useful here for EVERY user... in particular, and most important to me... LASTING FRIENDSHIPS. I imagine that for most of you, your situation is much like mine... You'd like to talk about submarine stuff to someone around you... and all you get is a bored stare. We submarine enthusiasts... are a rather strange breed after all! There are many more of us than there were a few years ago... but we are still few. THIS is the community with the only real gravitational pull in our niche.

For these reasons... it simply must survive. Any successor even pretending to replace Subsim in the future, would need years to take root... with 'costs' that do not require much imagination to envision.

Now imagine for a moment... this time next year, with no Subsim... and the members of this community scattered to the four winds.

Personally, I think I'd feel rather lost. How would you feel?

Great or small, I hope that each of you will do what you can to keep diesel in the tanks here.

Spectemur Agendo Subsim

[Jimbuna]

Donation sent on behalf of kratos