We wanted to upgrade to a Gigabit server starting from this month, but sadly we didn't get enough donations to pay our current servers for the next month either, so we've decided to create a poll, and ask you visitors how the site should continue.
The gigabit server could be managed from around $350 / month, which isn't much more then our current $220 / month donations, but the download speed would be 10 times faster (100 mbit -> 1000 mbit), besides that we could have a more stable, better server.
Switching to the new server would have a +$100 additional cost for the first month, as setup-price. Which means, that in the first month we'd need $450, and after that $350/month, but currently we only have $74.29 for the next month + the income from ads.
The income from the ads is the following: ad.fly already paid us $30 dollars for the first (partial) month when we started using it, and they should pay ~$50 in a few days. Clicksor still didn't paid us a penny, but supposedly we have around $60 unpaid for their ads(?).
So currently we don't even have enough money to pay the current (100mbit) servers, which means that if us (the staff) doesn't pay the remaining amount the downloads won't be available from next week.
Upgrading like this is very doubtful, so we're not sure what to do, and we decided to make a poll to ask you, visitors, of your opinion:
1) Stay with the current servers, everything will be as it is, downloads will be slow, sometimes they work, sometimes they don't (that's because we have to fix them, manually sometimes -> no available staff = no downloads). So nothing will be improved, upgraded, or anything, and if we don't get enough donations the site can probably only shut down.
2) Cancel our DDL servers, the website should remain as it is, and use Fileserver downloads + Torrents, this can be done easily, as it doesn't cost much money.
3) Go for the Gigabit (if we can pay it somehow), and up the monthly donations to $350 / month, while we can provide 10 times (or even) faster download speeds, and a stable server. Like this the site could improve, and we probably would have more visitors, even though this is a big risk in itself, if we can't pay it, we can go back to the current (100 mbit) servers for $220 / month, but if we don't even get that much donations we can only shut down, or use fileservers, like in the previous options.
Loading ...* We'd like to try Option 3, but please understand that it is only doable if we get enough Donations... sadly the income in April was unusually small.
