There are some financial costs to running a dedicated game server and web hosting. Frendel is administrating and financing the game server through DigitalOcean. Bargeld is administrating and financing the web hosting through Hostinger. Our time, and the time of the Principal, Devs, DMs, and all contributors is provided on a 100% voluntary basis. We love this server and we hope that you do too. We truly appreciate our community and contributors for supporting NS4!
Our team wants to provide confidence and transparency for all financial contributions to this server. The goal is to help cover costs incurred and for a net $0 profit. Here is our current position:
As of 5:15 EST 6/26/24:
- Web hosting (12 months/1 year pre-paid): $86.29
- Domain (12 month/1 year): $16.17
- Total Web Server 12 Month/1 Year Cost: $102.46
- Current Web Server Out-of-Pocket Cost: $0
- Current Contributions Applied: $102.46
- DigitalOcean Game Server: $14.00/monthly
- Total Game Server Upcoming Annual Cost: $168.00
- Prior DigitalOcean Game Server Upgrade: $4.00/monthly x 36mo
- Total Game Server Prior Upgrade Cost: $144.00
- Current Game Server Out-of-Pocket Cost: $0
- Current Contributions Applied: $312.00
Current out of pocket cost is $0
Current Contributions Applied: $414.46
Current reserves are $43.77
Our current distribution plan is to use straight math to distribute any financial intakes against the current out of pocket costs. Please note that some transactions from Paypal apply a currency conversion and typically a transaction cost.
Many thanks to our current and prior contributors for helping with the first 4 years as well as the next upcoming year of hosting!
Contributors:
06/25/24 – $100 – Anonymous contributor
06/21/24 – $50 – Anonymous contributor
06/21/24 – $15 – Anonymous contributor
06/20/24 – $100 – Anonymous contributor
06/20/24 – $50 – Anonymous contributor
06/20/24 – $100 – Anonymous contributor
06/20/24 – $60 – Anonymous contributor
06/20/24 – $5 – Anonymous contributor
07/16/20 – $50 – Anonymous contributor
07/22/20 – $500 – Anonymous contributor