OS4Depot hosting payment 2014-2015

Hey all.

Many a thanks to everyone that has donated for hosting the last year!

As you may know there has been a few problems with the hosting recently. Mostly due to the server provider not allowing upgrades to a more recent operating system for the server type I was subscribing to.

In light of that I have decided to migrate to a new server with a more up-to-date OS, with more storage space (and SSD too!) and more memory.

Although I'm able to pay for the hosting myself it's always nice to have some extra OS4Depot donations coming in when the payment is coming up.

The new hosting fee will be $348 per year. So if you want to help out, get yourself over to OS4Depot.net and click the donation button at the bottom left.

/Björn

A small token of appreciation sent!

@orgin

Small contribution made.

The PPal page being in swedish was bit confusing, especially the bit about using ',' for a decimal point! Actaully it was only that that caused a problem the rest was standard enough to not need a translation, just trying decoding the error text when I put in a '.' took a moment or two.

If there was apossibilty of an english language page that wouldn't be a bad idea, or maybe I should learn more swedish!

Added to this, it took a couple of attempts to get information about the currency the donation would be made in - not completely irrelevant to know before deciding the amount (it was US$, in case anyone wonders).

Anyway, I succeeded in donating a reasonable, but well deserved amount.

Thanks for your work, Orgin!.

Best regards,

Niels

@nbache

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Ideally PayPal's donation button would allow the donator to choose which currency they wish to donate in. Alas, I don't think that this is an option.

I know that people gave me smaller donations than intended due to the chosen currency for the buttons on my website being NZD. However, if I had changed it to USD or Euros, then donations would often result in a double exchange rate conversion, thereby diverting more of those donations to the coffers of PayPal and whichever bank(s) handle the conversion.

Hans

Small donate, now you can get yourself a couple of beers at the local pub :)

@Hans
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it would be even more important if the language was changed to the "correct" one when clicking on the button.
i actually did not understand much...
don't know why this does not work.

regards...
michael

@MichaelMerkel

Paypal can't know your language till after you've logged in. And as typically setup the form doesn't ask you to log in till after you've decided how much to donate. So the thankyou message is in your language but a little late by then.

A small donation made for a good site. Thanx for the effort :)

Thanks everyone!

The current amount of donations is 255$ and 10EUR

I tried to set the default language to English. It changed for me (when not logged in) but with paypal you never know.

@orgin

Care to give the specifications of what you have for such amount?
Just to compare with what we have here

In france for that price you get a VM with 2 virtual cores, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB of disk space and an unlimited bandwidth.

@orgin

Paypal forces Japanese on me due to location, so I generally find paypal amazon and other regionalize-by-geolocation sites default to severely broken.

This has also had the effect of switching to yen replacing usd/nzd during some purchase attempts.

as for funds received,
it is the currency types in the receivers account as balances which are the accepted list.

@Elwood

200Gb SSD*
6 cores
12GB memory
100MBit/s flatrate




* You can get more via non ssd but I went for performance since I do not need all that storage space.

@orgin

Donated some few coins outside of your website paypal link.

I don't know why but I was unable to login on my paypal account with your donation link.

Paypal donation sent to orgin at home se

@orgin

That's a powerfull machine. I hope the bandwidth is not limiting.
Anyway donation sent.

No problem with the paypal part here, donation sent last sunday.

Sent a small donation too. Thank you for keeping this (and others) site available!

@orgin
Donation done! in dollars instead of euros, less money for the support, you have make the button iin euros.

@templario

You could just give more dollars you know

Thanks again everyone!

I've moved over to the new server and the speedup in administering depot updates and such is remarkable faster.