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Steve-S View Drop Down
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Posts: 2578 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Steve-S Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 November 2023 at 18:50

I have been much more sporadic than I used to be... just now (end of Nov) saw this thread for the 1st time.

Count me as among the members who would like to donate... but not if PayPal is involved.
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Posts: 328 		Post Options Post Options   Quote adhox Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 November 2023 at 11:20
Hi Bob, my PayPal uses a different email account, but it has a connection to my real name as shown in my profile here. Not sure if I’m one of your anonymous donors.
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Posts: 1669 		Post Options Post Options   Quote mstaben Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 December 2023 at 20:23

Sent a donation in just now. Happy New Year everyone.

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Posts: 4615 		Post Options Post Options   Quote skm.sa100 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 January 2024 at 17:26
Pitched in with my share.

Happy new year to all Dyxumers!

Regards
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Posts: 1055 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Saratoga Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 February 2024 at 16:19
I have used a lot of forums over the years that have slowly ceased to be for various reasons. Dyxum is a great place for us and I am pleased to see it still going.

I am on limited funds at the moment so can't pay anything large but I think I can do something small on paypal as a regular payment. I would certainly like to do my bit to support this place as I don't often come here.

This may change, but for now I'll do what I can.

Do you have an additional title for them in the forum such as 'forum supporter'. I have done this on a few of the forums I have run over the years. They're also getting some of my time and effort still but their hosting costs are co shared with a fellow admin and its total is under £100 a year.
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Posts: 1055 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Saratoga Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 February 2024 at 16:43
So what I've discovered is Paypal is fine for one off payments but you (the sender of money) can't set up a continious/repeat payment.

I've tried it with both the setting of 'business' and the 'friends and family' option with no joy.

I've got other 'automatic' payments running for other things I subscribe too but I can't find a way to make Bob J into one of those.

I have tested with 3 payments so far. I suspect at this point my technological skills will take a back burner here and I'll have to put a note in my diary to repeat once a month to make the payment.

I do so prefer the fire and forget option.

Bob. Thank you for your patience.
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Posts: 2669 		Post Options Post Options   Quote bonneville Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08 February 2024 at 17:56
Originally posted by Bob J Bob J wrote:

My personal inclination is not to follow a subscription model - partly because I'd be concerned that we would be discouraging younger members, or those whose circumstances are not great.

Bob, I don’t think I have ever met a more egalitarian person. And of course you are right. And without Dyxum I would never have met you.
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Posts: 4615 		Post Options Post Options   Quote skm.sa100 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 March 2024 at 03:53
As part of my profession, I work with AWS pretty regularly. They've made it incredibly easy to be a tenant.
Not sure if I can help but if the admin team ever decides to try out moving into the cloud I could perhaps of be assistance.
Sashi
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Posts: 4949 		Post Options Post Options   Quote ifreedman Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 March 2024 at 03:02
Bob, I just sent a donation. Wish I had more time to post and to post pics on the site. But even though I don't, I still visit regularly and think it's the most awesome international community!!!
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Posts: 3480 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Coast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 April 2024 at 06:38
Originally posted by skm.sa100 skm.sa100 wrote:

As part of my profession, I work with AWS pretty regularly. They've made it incredibly easy to be a tenant.
Not sure if I can help but if the admin team ever decides to try out moving into the cloud I could perhaps of be assistance.
Sashi
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Posts: 9 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Andro Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 January 2025 at 05:37
I have recently rejoined the site after many many years.

What is your current server hosting? What software do you use for the site and forum? May I enquire how much are the monthly fees? Can you make that public? And I know that there are annual DNS costs.

I run some sites using Discourse. For hundreds of users this works fine on a basic 1GB linux server with 25GB disk at Vultr. I have also used Digital Ocean. The monthly cost for an adequate server is about USD$12 per month.

I run my site on member donations via PayPal. It is a fact of internet life that only less than 5% of user contribute. No amount of polite pleading generates much more than that.

Any way I can help, let me know.
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Posts: 9 		Post Options Post Options   Quote Andro Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 19 January 2025 at 05:42
I did some lookups and I see you are with an ISP in England but running Windows servers. Difficult to maintain nowadays and indeed relatively expensive. And not my area of IT expertise.
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