OcR Envy
10-14-2009, 09:01 AM
Donation Drive 2010!
As 2009 draws to an end, our crappy web hosting contract expires and our forum/cms software is coming out with a new version it's time for a donation drive. Our last drive netted over $300 worth of donations, way to go! This time we are setting the goal higher, $500. Why so high?! We like to aim high, however another $300 drive would be great but not enough to cover our site costs this year. The more money we raise the more we can give back to the member base and charitable communities.
This year the forum/cms software we use has changed the way they handle licencess. In the past we paid a yearly fee of $160 to keep up with security and patch updates to the vBulletin 3.x series. However they are launching the vBulletin 4.x series shortly. With this launch they have decided to go to a "One time fee" process instead of a yearly process. In order for us to get current with the 4.x series we must pay an upgrade fee of $130. This will again be a one time fee and we will be covered as far as software goes for the next 4-5 years. See Here For FAQ: http://www.vbulletin.com/index.php?do=faq
Our Costs Broken Down:
Virtual Private Server(A Year): $300(Average)
Domain Renewals(A Year): outcastreborn.com + outcastreborn.net = $25
vBulletin Lic Renewal(See Writeup Above): $130
Total For 2010: $455
"Thats all freaken great Envy but how do I donate?" I thought you'd never ask! To donate click on the Clan drop down menu and click Donate. Select an amount or select custom to enter your own desired amount. We ask that you do not donate less than $5 due to paypal service fees. Once you have selected the amount you will be redirected to the paypal billing page. At this point you will also receive an automated PM letting you know have received your on site donation. However, you are not finished yet with the donation just yet. To finish sign in with your paypal account and then click Confirm. You will be redirected back to our site and your donation will then be verified.
If you do not have a paypal account you may click "Continue" under the "Don't have a Paypal account" title. The process is then the same, confirm the details and click continue. We will then verify the donation on our end. Once all donations are verified you will receive a Verification PM from us letting you know it went through and we thank you!
So I suppose you are asking "Do I get anything for donating?" Well, you get the satisfation of knowing you are helping continue the clan you know and love. You also get a shiny medal in your Medals Chest: http://www.outcastreborn.com/awards.php and you get your name listed on the donors list: http://www.outcastreborn.com/misc.php?do=donlist . But this time around you get one more nifty invite.
As I stated above vBulletin; our forum software is soon to release version 4.0 of their "Suit". This will be incompatible with many of our current site features. Due to this we will need to create outcastreborn.com v5! As we did with v4 we will enlist a special "Donors" group with inside information, screenshots and access to v5 of the site before we let anyone else in! This is still some time away, months probably; before we start work on it. However we are only offering this donors incentive for the drive. Once we are closed we will not allow anyone else into this "Beta" group if you will so get in now!
If you have any questions or need help with the donation system please do not hesitate to contact me direct. As always every little bit helps, let's make sure OcR has a good year in 2010!
As 2009 draws to an end, our crappy web hosting contract expires and our forum/cms software is coming out with a new version it's time for a donation drive. Our last drive netted over $300 worth of donations, way to go! This time we are setting the goal higher, $500. Why so high?! We like to aim high, however another $300 drive would be great but not enough to cover our site costs this year. The more money we raise the more we can give back to the member base and charitable communities.
This year the forum/cms software we use has changed the way they handle licencess. In the past we paid a yearly fee of $160 to keep up with security and patch updates to the vBulletin 3.x series. However they are launching the vBulletin 4.x series shortly. With this launch they have decided to go to a "One time fee" process instead of a yearly process. In order for us to get current with the 4.x series we must pay an upgrade fee of $130. This will again be a one time fee and we will be covered as far as software goes for the next 4-5 years. See Here For FAQ: http://www.vbulletin.com/index.php?do=faq
Our Costs Broken Down:
Virtual Private Server(A Year): $300(Average)
Domain Renewals(A Year): outcastreborn.com + outcastreborn.net = $25
vBulletin Lic Renewal(See Writeup Above): $130
Total For 2010: $455
"Thats all freaken great Envy but how do I donate?" I thought you'd never ask! To donate click on the Clan drop down menu and click Donate. Select an amount or select custom to enter your own desired amount. We ask that you do not donate less than $5 due to paypal service fees. Once you have selected the amount you will be redirected to the paypal billing page. At this point you will also receive an automated PM letting you know have received your on site donation. However, you are not finished yet with the donation just yet. To finish sign in with your paypal account and then click Confirm. You will be redirected back to our site and your donation will then be verified.
If you do not have a paypal account you may click "Continue" under the "Don't have a Paypal account" title. The process is then the same, confirm the details and click continue. We will then verify the donation on our end. Once all donations are verified you will receive a Verification PM from us letting you know it went through and we thank you!
So I suppose you are asking "Do I get anything for donating?" Well, you get the satisfation of knowing you are helping continue the clan you know and love. You also get a shiny medal in your Medals Chest: http://www.outcastreborn.com/awards.php and you get your name listed on the donors list: http://www.outcastreborn.com/misc.php?do=donlist . But this time around you get one more nifty invite.
As I stated above vBulletin; our forum software is soon to release version 4.0 of their "Suit". This will be incompatible with many of our current site features. Due to this we will need to create outcastreborn.com v5! As we did with v4 we will enlist a special "Donors" group with inside information, screenshots and access to v5 of the site before we let anyone else in! This is still some time away, months probably; before we start work on it. However we are only offering this donors incentive for the drive. Once we are closed we will not allow anyone else into this "Beta" group if you will so get in now!
If you have any questions or need help with the donation system please do not hesitate to contact me direct. As always every little bit helps, let's make sure OcR has a good year in 2010!