...In a perfect world, where everybody registered on the board gave a dollar, there would be just under $700 in the kitty...

That would be enough to not only host the thing fof a couple of years, but also to buy Ron a romantic meal for two in an classy restaurant, a flash new suit, and an intricate Stars Autohost tattoo covering his entire back...

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Storm wrote on Wed, 31 August 2005 20:31

That would be enough to not only host the thing fof a couple of years, but also to buy Ron a romantic meal for two in an classy restaurant, a flash new suit, and an intricate Stars Autohost tattoo covering his entire back...

I was going to ask where you lived that $700 would buy all that - I could easily spend the $700 on each of the last 3 things - and then I looked at your location...

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gible wrote on Wed, 31 August 2005 09:41

Storm wrote on Wed, 31 August 2005 20:31 That would be enough to not only host the thing fof a couple of years, but also to buy Ron a romantic meal for two in an classy restaurant, a flash new suit, and an intricate Stars Autohost tattoo covering his entire back... I was going to ask where you lived that $700 would buy all that - I could easily spend the $700 on each of the last 3 things - and then I looked at your location...

There's not a lot to do for entertainment here....

....and I bet you get the e-mails flooding in now... $700 on a romantic meal?? An orderly here please, girls (or boys, he no fussy)...

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Storm wrote on Wed, 31 August 2005 04:31

and an intricate Stars Autohost tattoo covering his entire back...

Ouch! That's a bit *too* flashy for me

We had lots of thunderstorms the other day from Hurricane Katrina moving north near our area. Even here at work, we had 4 power outages that day.

The admin's house where SAH server is, had several power outages, some longer than 2 hours.

He has a used LARGE battery backup system, but is waiting for help setting it up (not from me, but someone else) for his rackmount servers in his house. (The guy's got 24megabit speed up AND down into his house (he's the sysadmin for a local ISP))

He's upset by the power outages also, as it affects all his servers, not just SAH. When his home mailserver is down, he can't check his own email, just like I couldn't check SAH email the other day. He uses VOIP phones, and that server was also affected.

As for donations, I don't think I've ever asked for them. Jeff McBride agreed with me that the Stars! community had had free access to SAH etc for so long that it would put a damper on things if any Stars! site started asking for donations, and that was years ago when I talked with him about it.

I believe I've received around $550 total in donations since I started SAH in May, 1997. A little over $400 of that is from one person in Europe who has donated during Christmas the last two years. I asked the person if they wanted some recognition on HWF, and they said 'no'.

I wouldn't mind putting up a little avatar-like graphic for those who have donated, but Stars! community members are just so modest.

I do have a very nice collection of postcards, though! Think I have around 8-10 I still need to scan and post on the page.

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You see?

He gives us so much, and all he asks for in return is our love...

[Updated on: Wed, 31 August 2005 13:42]

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[Updated on: Thu, 14 December 2006 13:17]

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Altruist wrote on Thu, 14 December 2006 13:15

Looks like a replacement hard drive is needed. While trying to find the secret corner where Ron has hidden the paypal button, I stumbled upon this old thread. LEit wrote on Tue, 30 August 2005 16:09 There is a link for Paypal donations on this page: http://starsautohost.org/postcards.htm But for those without a fast connection to download 350kb of postcards to find the paypal button, another paypal button somewhere else would be probably quite handy.

Ouch, hadn't thought of the large size of that page for modem users.

The PayPal button is now on the Stars! AutoHost home page, at the bottom of the menu options.

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