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

[Wolf Enstein]

I don't know what to say here, Schnoog bro, you've been so kind and considerate towards our Wolfenstein Community for years, always "picking up the tab" too when there's a shortfall in the cash donations, but we can't expect you to keep on doing this indefinitely. Like Reaper said in his post there, could parts of this wonderful set up be saved, such as the "Wolffiles" website? I feel it would truly be a tragedy to lose this amazing filebase for all things "Wolfenstein".

This website has been a huge part of my life and my Clan's life for the past 13 years, therefore, I personally will be very sorry to lose our Wolfenstein online home. Whatever you decide to do, we will support you, mate, you owe us nothing.

[Topcat]

Will be sad to not have the site anymore but of course understand where you're coming from, is a lot of money for you to pay every month. Maybe a donation or something could be set up if there are guys who wants to help you out in order to keep the site alive.

This post has been edited by Topcat: Feb 2 2018, 12:24 AM

[macbeth]

Will be sad to not have the site anymore but of course understand where you're coming from, is a lot of money for you to pay every month. Maybe a donation or something could be set up if there are guys who wants to help you out in order to keep the site alive.

Here Topcat

http://et.splatterladder.com/?mod=donation