N3O Age Of Empires and Starcraft 2 Clan

A PayPal donations button has been added to the site to generate some revenue to fund the website hosting services and the VOIP server.
The website and VOIP servers are currently funded by 3 members of the clan, myself, CrAz3n and LaZy_TuGa. It isn't a huge cost, but the fact remains that it still has to be paid for.

We previously used a freehost site which (if you were here when we did) I'm sure you'll agree was not enough for our needs, and so it was decided that we would move here last November.The move to the new site is a great success with the superior forums and facilities which you all enjoy now, a big benefit to the N3O community of which you are a part of.

We have also stepped up to a rented Ventrilo server from our previous TeamSpeak server (kindly hosted by comadevil), those of you who have used/are using the N3O Ventrilo server will agree the audio quality is superb and second to none, some have even said it is better than their landline!

I will be making donations to this fund, as I see it as a nice way to give something back to a community that I have gotten so much from over the time I have been here.If you feel the same way as I do, and would like to donate, small or big, then click on the Donate button to support N3O.

Thankyou for taking the time to read this.

I think that anyone who donates should post in here what the donated to give some credit to themselves.

$25.00 US from the fellow for now.

$25 US from me as well, for such a worthy cause

I have added $25.00 as well.

This was an excellent idea Jim. This way those who want to contribute can do so easily. It may also allow us to bump up file storage limits and maximum size and even file type. We didn't go the cheap route with hosting and the Vent server is an awesome addition. I wish my land line was as clear. Thanks to Lazy for that. I never could have guessed that the quality would be as great as it is.

I agree with Roger, its an excellent idea Jim!
I know you've been talking about it for sometime!
And now that its finally up i reckon you could get a few people to donate, however small, to keep the site and server going.

$50.00 has been wired from the Kaiser's royal treasury

I think this a great way of giving back and saying "thanks" for maintaining a fantastic site and a great community. Ventrilo is great; keep it up!

Steve / Indy has contributed. Give us some idea going along of how fast the "fund" is being consumed and we can gauge contributions accordingly.

[quote=""NEO_CrAz3n""]I have added $25.00 as well.

This was an excellent idea Jim. This way those who want to contribute can do so easily. It may also allow us to bump up file storage limits and maximum size and even file type. We didn't go the cheap route with hosting and the Vent server is an awesome addition. I wish my land line was as clear. Thanks to Lazy for that. I never could have guessed that the quality would be as great as it is.[/quote]

Yes, one of the thoughts was not only that we can cover the costs with donations, but if there is enough collected from time to time, we can upgrade our hosting facilites. This would give us even more scope for improvements.

[quote=""IndyBrit""]Steve / Indy has contributed. Give us some idea going along of how fast the "fund" is being consumed and we can gauge contributions accordingly. [/quote]

Of course. Any funds collected through the paypal donations will be listed and we will also list where the funds go as well.

I just donated.
Plan to try Ventrilo this weekend!

Whats the money gona go towards to?

Reread the topic :p

What's the status here? Time for another infusion yet?

Status (I'll check it later) is we are currently around $25 in credit (I think). We were at around £190 and paid out for another 3 years hosting in November when our first year was up. We don't really require any funding for the time being, but obviously if we find ourselves with $$$ in the account then we can do something with it.
Perhaps if we did have an excess in the account we could host a dedicated VOD site or something? There seems to be a lot around recently......