New Server Drive - donation and prize thread (Final total: $13,310!)

[Piratecat]

Quick update:

- the server is all assembled except for the hard drives; they sent the wrong ones. We have returned them and the new ones are en route.

- I've received no word on the Gateway despite calling our member several times. Truth is, I'm a little frustrated -- I'm not sure if procrastination and the holidays are to blame or not, or whether it fell through and we haven't yet been told. I hope for the best! We'll keep following this up. In the mean time, we're going with a single-server solution and we'll switch over to a dual-server solution if our friends are able to get the Gateway to us.

- Now that people are returning from vacation, more prizes go out this week. Look for emails from me.

 

[thud13x]

Mr. Piratecat, sir, I have recently moved and the address in my Paypal account is no longer active. I have attached a new address to it. It should be thud13x@yahoo.com. Please share this with all the great people whom have made this Drive the best one yet!

Thanks to Mark from CMG for all your help. The file was most helpful.

Nik Knight

 

[BSF]

So if nobody minds my being nosy, who has received what as gifts? What looks cool, etc?

 

[Piratecat]

I think all the pdfs have gone out, but not most of the physical items. That's my fault; a personal crisis with a friend has badly distracted me. I'm prepping the Avadnu books this morning for shipping, though, and getting the list to Alsih2o and our prize donators so that they can get stuff in the mail!

I apologize for the delay.

The server will be physically complete this week. They sent the wrong hard drives, which we returned to exchange for the correct ones. They are in the mail now. Starting this weekend we'll be putting on the operating system and getting the server ready.

I'm not getting a reply from the member who donated the Gateway server. We're going to keep trying for that until I get a response (either yes or no.) In the mean time, though, we're going with a one (very powerful) server solution. When this shows any sign of lagging, the plan is to substitute in the second server to relieve the load. Doing it this way has a couple of advantages:

- We can get the new server up much sooner, since we don't yet have the Gateway
- We save $75 every month we're on one server instead of two
- We shouldn't see any performance difference until our load gets significantly greater than it is right now

 

[Vigwyn the Unruly]

So if nobody minds my being nosy, who has received what as gifts? What looks cool, etc?

I received the PDFs that went to everyone who donated, and those look great! Thanks go out to those donors!

On the other hand, I didn't get anything else. I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed about that, because it has been over 8 weeks since the drive ended, and I thought someone said after the drive that there were so many prizes that everybody would get at least one.

Oh, well.

Edit: Saw Piratecat's post above. Yay! I'm crossing my fingers.

 

[Piratecat]

Edit: Saw Piratecat's post above. Yay! I'm crossing my fingers.

Yup, it's cause I suck in a "Auggh! Too much stuff to do!" sort of way. We'll finish this up as soon as possible.

 

[Mark]

I received the PDFs that went to everyone who donated, and those look great! Thanks go out to those donors!

You're quite welcome, Unruly One. Glad you like them!

 

[Alzrius]

You're quite welcome, Unruly One. Glad you like them!

Mark, just wanted to ask if you'd gotten my emails recently? Hopefully the new email address should overcome any problems.

 

[Tav_Behemoth]

I think all the pdfs have gone out, but not most of the physical items.

I apologize for the delay, but I'm glad to say that a new round of PDFs has gone out: I've just sent registration codes to everyone who donated $20 or more, which can be used to download your choice of either A Swarm of Stirges or Maze of the Minotaur.

I'm really glad to have had the chance to be part of the server drive; lots of things make me proud to be part of this community, and this is definitely one of them.

 

[Macbeth]

Awesome! Just got my link from Behemoth 3, and I plan to download Maze of the Minotaur tomorrow, since I've already stayed up far to late tonight playing World of Warcraft. Thanks to all those who donated prizes. All of this stuff is great!