Serverhosting.....Splatterladder....., 4 years have gone... some thoughts Options

[schnoog]

Hi folks,
mid of February 2014, SL started the server hosting project.

The idea behind it was, to offer a self charging server hosting, with very low fees.

Now, 4 years later, I'm thinking about shutting down this service.

The primary reason: It was never self charging.
During this 4 years, a total of 2395,2 Euro was paid to the hosting company for server rent.
In total 977,40 auf server fee was earned.
The difference of 1400 Euro were paid by me.

But this is not everything I mediate on.

In addition to the hosting difference 100 Euro / month for hosting the Splatterladder and the backup system are on the bill,
150 Euro draining out of my pocket month by month (tbh. the server also hosts Wolffiles and ETKey).

This for hosting a game tracker for a game, I've played for less than 10 hours during the last 5 years.

Guys, I'm really thinking about shutting off the whole thing, pushing all the code (without any database content) to Github an pulling the plug.
It's not a fun challenge to perform the at least weakly maintenance of the server (there are security nightmare popping up on daily base), but hey, at least it's a challenge
But I need to explain my lady, why she is driving a 9 years old car and "I throw the money out the windows for a game which is not even installed on any of my devices".

What will I do? What shall I do? I'm not decided.
But honestly, I'm thinking about it..... and it's hard for me to convince myself to keep the things running as they are.

Cheers
Schnoog

[Medelwr]

Schnoog, I can honestly say that I saw this coming at some point and don't think it were just me though probably others also.
Splatterladder has been a great service, community to the players and supporters whom have come and gone but mostly to those who remain and have servers through your host, websites, including a TeamSpeak server for all to use.
Without a doubt I could guess that some people have taken the absolute piss, however 150 a month is a lot to be paying out in order to keep this entire thing running and it isn't fair that you have to do some or most of it out of your own pocket. Though to shut everything down would be a major blow for everyone, so I say you could keep it going though just pull the plug on what services you cannot afford to keep forking out for as the community / the file base is the one thing that matters along with the server and or player tracking, in my opinion.
Would hate to see this great thing end though I suppose that some things do come to an end at some point, however some things can be rescued ^^

If the entire community bands in together and all chips in on this, then Splatterladder could survive.

{WeB}*Reaper*

This post has been edited by Medelwr: Feb 1 2018, 09:19 PM