Marsh Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 I am currently at school full time with zero income. Up until this point the google ads have been paying for the site along with me chipping in part of my food money. I am now provided with food and not given money so i cannot pay at the moment. While google ads have next months payment they have fallen behind the last 2 months. Eclipse is currently $60 overdue on its payment with another 80 due. If the 80 becomes overdue sometime this month then Eclipse will go down. The bill is normally only about 60 a month or so but "Dreamhost" switched my servers and jacked up the memory usage creating a higher bill then normal. I am currently talking with Justin about possible payment but we will see what happens.I wish i had the cash to pay but i simply do not have any sort of income whatsoever. So if you want to buy ads on Eclipse or donate now would be the time. I have requested a backup of the forum database encase the site goes down. If it does go down hopefully i can get it back up again the next month with google ads, but if the sites down it may not hit the minimum payment.Anyway, just thought id give everyone the heads up. I will try to sell some shit and get the payment, but i dont really have much at the moment. I will update this post of how far we are away from our goal.**Bring Eclipse back up to snuff:** $0**Have the site not shut down for another month:** $0 !!!!!!!!!!!If you are worried that the money doesnt go towards hosting donate here: [http://www.dreamhost…te.cgi?id=10850](http://www.dreamhost.com/donate.cgi?id=10850) That link can only be spent on hosting. But it has a minimum payment. Where paypal can be any amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheatking Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Here I come to save the dayyy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Shit thanks a ton man, good chance you just saved Eclipse.Also apparantly dreamhost charges a fee for donations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuffle Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I have money , but it's only $79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi2011 Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Wow thats a lot. Donating that would put the forums out of misery.I wish I could donate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synergy Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Maybe you should make it easier to find the damn donations page? It's not very easy to find.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMF Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 i would if i knew how to work paypal o-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Donated $5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lavos Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 when is the deadline for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Not to stick my nose all up in your business but why in the world is your hosting bill $60 a month? That's insane just for a website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaron Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Sadly, having a VPS (IIRC, Eclipse uses one?) that supports the bandwidth and usage of a site this big will get up to that price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 I'll still throw some down when I get payed to help with future months payments, but glad you got the money =). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Thanks Sekaru, and thanks to the other donation of $5 i couldnt find who it belonged to but if you let me know i can give you a donator title.The hosting is so expensive becouse Eclipse currently uses 3 private servers. Also the host is constantly complaining saying i need a memory upgrade on my server. Eclipse gets some massive traffic. Over 1 million page views a day. Also i am split across 2 hosts, one for freemmorpgmaker.com and one for touchofdeathforums.com i am trying to merge them into 1 but i need to move the filehost on freemmorpgmaker which is way to big to do manually. So i am trying to get support to do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadalinV Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Why dont you ask at donations for their name on the forums, like the voting in other games (ex minecraft servers voting asks for minecraft username) because i can claim that i donated, without any proof (it clearly wasnt me xD) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadalinV Posted January 22, 2013 Share Posted January 22, 2013 Sorry for double post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted January 22, 2013 Author Share Posted January 22, 2013 Well you would have to know the email that was used to donate with. 99% of the time i just search the email and username pops up. So they most likely dont have a account here or are using a different email. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuffle Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 sorry , i cant donate my money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnPony Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 > sorry , i cant donate my moneyThen why post?Also, you can't link us to a file stored locally on your computer with localhost. *cough* Your signature *cough* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Exception Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 > I have money , but it's only $79To post that you have $80 for no reason and then to post that is just downright rude and disrespectful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kajamaz Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 > Eclipse currently uses 3 private servers. Over 1 million page views a day.Seems a bit too hard to believe, why dont you just switch hosts maybe?Also… 1 million page views a day... if you get paid 1 cent for 100 ads on the top of the page... you'd get 10k dollars a day.I dont believe you get 1 million views, just cant cant... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaaron Posted January 23, 2013 Share Posted January 23, 2013 Well when people search "free mmorpg maker," I'm pretty sure Eclipse is going to get that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted January 23, 2013 Author Share Posted January 23, 2013 > Seems a bit too hard to believe, why dont you just switch hosts maybe?> > Also… 1 million page views a day... if you get paid 1 cent for 100 ads on the top of the page... you'd get 10k dollars a day.> > I dont believe you get 1 million views, just cant cant...I checked the actual stats it takes about a week or two.Also you only get payed when people click the ads. About 0.034 people clicks ads. So no its not close that that. I make 40 - 60 a month off the ads. Goes up a bit in the summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 > I checked the actual stats it takes about a week or two.> > Also you only get payed when people click the ads. About 0.034 people clicks ads. So no its not close that that. I make 40 - 60 a month off the ads. Goes up a bit in the summer.Sounds like you need to get away from that crappy host and find one that doesn't oversell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zerohero Posted January 24, 2013 Share Posted January 24, 2013 > Seems a bit too hard to believe, why dont you just switch hosts maybe?> > Also… 1 million page views a day... if you get paid 1 cent for 100 ads on the top of the page... you'd get 10k dollars a day.> > I dont believe you get 1 million views, just cant cant...1 million views factors in people like me and you refreshing the page, viewing a thread etc, guests visiting the site etcetc. Ads only really make any money when people click them. You get like a fraction of a cent per thousand people viewing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsh Posted January 24, 2013 Author Share Posted January 24, 2013 freemmorpgmaker.com just got suspended but i am transferring all my stuff over here. Hopefully i can get the domain over to before the site goes down. Still $75 owing if anyone still feels like donating  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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