In the just over three years that DDY has been in the scene, I have never made a push for donations. When I have mentioned them, it was only for Blurays that weren’t appearing online at the normal places. I simply never needed them; I had plenty of disposable income from work and could afford to fund all of our work on my own.
Things have changed. At the beginning of August, I found out that my employer wasn’t willing to be flexible with my class schedule anymore, despite this being my last semester of school and my 2 years with the company while taking classes. On top of that, I became ineligible for financial aid this year. If only one of these things had happened, I might have been able to cope, but as it is, all of my savings will be tied up in tuition/fees and cost of living while I try to find a way to pay for what’s left.
Because of that, I am faced with the unfortunate need to ask something I never thought I would: your help paying for our servers.
I’ve already made some significant changes to our infrastructure to reduce costs and possibly increase performance at the same time. Below you can see the breakdown of our expected costs. For right now, it looks like I’ll need help for 4-5 months. I should be able to find a job soon after graduating in December. If that is not the case, I will update you all here.
| Cost($/mo) | |
|---|---|
| Encode Server | 54.12 |
| Storage/FTP | 54.5 |
| Site | 3.49 |
| Seedbox | 13 |
| Total | 125.11 |
If you like the work that DDY does and are willing and capable of helping, please consider donating. A few donation options:
- Paypal: Email us directly at [email protected] or message me on IRC to arrange a paypal donation.
- Flattr: Contribute on Flatter here.
- Patreon: Contribute on Patreon here.
- Other: Comment with a valid email below and we’ll get in contact.
If we receive any donations, we will make the amounts and what for/when we are using it public here.
Thank you,
begna112
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we accept monopoly money too
BinbouDesuYo
No Patreon option?
I will look into it. I was under the impression patreon is stricter about their rules for what can be funded through it.
Thanks for wanting to help! I’ve set up a Patreon page here
Let me know if you have any problems with it.
chipped in XD
Some money heading your way…
If it’s via PayPal, make sure to email us first to get the email to send it to!
Holy shit those encode server costs! When I was younger™ people would just encode using their (usually beefy) home computers. Then again, in those times it was a toss-up between a shit quality speedsub encodes and something that was being released at a glacial enough pace to be processed on a 486DX and not lose any time doing so.
Luckily, after 3-4 months, we won’t need an encode server any more as Saeval will be able to afford his own encode-capable PC. Some of our encodes, especially BDs, can take upwards of 18 hours to encode even on a recent cpu. (persona 3 #4 1080p took >85 hours!) So it would be unimaginably slow on his laptop computer lol
Donate $25 or more and i’ll typeset your name as a hidden Easter-egg in one of our releases.
Howe much to get a Did You Know?
May I ask which provider you use to get that kind of rate on the GB-per-USD you’re getting, or is that the sort of thing that’s kept sekrit?
What kind of shit server are you using for the FTP for it to cost $54/mo? That’s an absolute joke.
If you’re implying that it’s cheap, it’s because we got a deal on it.
If you’re implying that it’s way too expensive, I think you’re underestimating how much storage we need, what kind of network we need it to be on to support staff that are global, and the processing power we may need to run software other than simply ftp.
If it’s used for more than just the FTP then why is it listed as FTP costs?
On another note I can easily get many servers with upwards of 4TB space on quadcores with 32gb of ram or more, for less, on 1Gbit lines with good worldwide tiering… You’re overpaying, simple as.
Because at the moment it’s just running another method of fileshare on top of FTP.
And with Windows + the host allowing license transfers so we don’t have to pay for a new one? Please enlighten us.
Why would you use a Windows server for FTP? and what’s the other filesharing method, I assume BT or XDCC?
FTP on Linux for dummies (Debian)
http://pastebin.com/9x9puqTX
XDCC is hosted elsewhere. It’s just something different we’re testing out.
I’ll leave begna to reply to this if he wants to explain why we need Windows, but it’s not about not knowing how to set up FTP on Linux. We could do that easily.
linux ftp applications are mostly out of date, vulnerable and not configuration friendly when you need fine-grained user-based permissions. I’ve used proftpd in the past and it’s a pain.
Feel free to link your alternatives and we’ll consider them. That said, I highly doubt that options with the specs and price you’re claiming exist.