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

[{WeB}*DoG*]

Schnoog we of course would never wish to see SL gone but no reasonable person can or could expect you to continue subsidising a project that's shelf life is coming to an end. Whilst there are still large communities playing and modding and mapping we have to be realistic and accept that short of someone porting this into a newer engine we will probably never see the numbers that once graced these boards. A sad day indeed, but this also should be a celebration of the friends made, battles fought, arguments discussed sometimes reasonably, sometimes not, but all exhibiting passion. Gangsta and I have been here for many many years and have been hated by some lauded by others but I hope no one can doubt our love of Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. I hope there is a way we can help, subsidise or save at least the SL name as well as Wolffiles for those that wish to continue using these hugely helpful resource sites. We contributed over the years probably less than we should because of 2 factors 1) We never made funds contributions part of being in the clan, 2) We, like most took SL for granted and were not in a position to fund stuff, until this year with our general migration this year to Day of Infamy this is the first year we have been happily solvent. But voluntarily getting money out of gamers is a bit like winning the lottery.... you know someone does just never you!

We will endevour to cover wolffiles and perhaps SL we would love to see it go on...
kindest regards
As always
Dogster