Hi guys
we tried this a while back and failed miserably because of the strict South African Forex Laws. After months and months of jumping through hoops, filling in forms, being inspected, extraction of DNA and blood samples, we think we are ready to try it again.
Direct link to donations page: http://www.sas1946.com/Contribute.htmWe will now (As of 28 May 2010,) be accepting all donations through PayPal. For South Africans, getting this working was a great trick, usually only reserved for bigger companies with runners and lawyers and financial departments. But after much slogging, I got it all done.
All the guys who contribute will be named and thanked here. No stealing of your bucks will happen here. We will not pull any TV evangelical BS on you like "I need $10000 by the end of the week or my children will be executed", or blackmailing you with threats of shutting down the site and such crap. Neither are we going to buy a big fat commercial server and expect you all to pick up the tab. The site will go on regardless, and while the expenses are not life threatening, I do pay them, and some help would be cool.
Please include in the PayPal transaction notes, your SAS screenname also, so I can know who to thank!Q: How much money does SAS need to run?
A: We cannot say exactly. We would (and did for a long time) pay for it ourselves, so, technically nothing
There are 3 hosts we use, one big account that runs the forum sever, and two smaller ones elsewhere that we use to store files. After last year's attacks we have learned to keep our stuff dispersed. So there may be others we cannot mention just yet. To this you can add unknown costs, for example, we are constantly outgrowing ourselves, and having to upgrade bandwith or space on servers. We are also trying to save so there is some leeway for us to make better decisions when doing these upgrades. And then there are bankcharges which is a small but noticable part, for us operating from South Africa, with it's strict forex and paypal laws.
In April we took out a Mediafire Pro Account, the only way I was able to host the UP3 static downloads ,the FBDSM and the DBW updates, before passing them on to mirrors. This has proven immensly popular, and up to mid July, we have had more than 25000 files downloaded from there, totalling an amazing 5 Terrabytes of data. Unfortunately this has come at a cost, and so I am adding $40 to the total target (even though it routinely costs 3 or 4 times that per month.)
Note for Feb 2012: I have set the montly target back to $170 from $120, as it was till Oct 2011. This is to build up out VIP account at Mediafire for the release of our Large packets of single downloads for Official Patches, DBW, FBDSM and UP3. I hope it will be enough as I think a lot of guys will want to "clean" downloads of everything. If it is not enough I shall scream and ask for more
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CirX
Many many thank to the guys who have made a contribution. I have to tell you it is greatly appreciated and very helpfull.
As promised , here is a complete list of the SAS's benefactors so far
If I get your Screenname wrong, just yell. If you have made a donation and I missed it, please post in this thread about it.
If your name is here, cheers mate!
Montly Target: $170Feb 2012: Target Reached pierre1946, IKolincak, Maico, tbauchot, DaMasTa, Flying H, cgagan
Jan 2012: Target Reached Docholiday, SAS~Le0ne, cgagan, FIGHTS ON, jlan5031
Dec 2011: Target Reached John Booth, Daniele Quaglia, Marcos Beltran, walter solito, oldschoolie, Pierre1946, IKolincak, Blaubär
Nov 2011: Target Reached juanmalapuente, Le0ne, Korrigan, pierre1946, Hans Svensson, IKolincak, SAS~GJE52
Oct 2011: Target Reached alanbee, ~°x°~, Hanseat, Dick Hoogenraad, IKolincak, Docholiday, cgagan, Wolf Urine, Le0ne
Sept 2011: Target Reached dona, levine59, Flying H, IKolincak, Dick Hoogenraad, El_Marta, Maico, Le0ne, pierre1946
Aug 2011: Target Reached gprr, cgagan, Baco, clanger, Docholiday, Le0ne, Paulo Hirth, Flying H, tom2, IKolincak, cgagan, CWMV, RUBADUR, Spinnetti, pierre1946, snailsave11, tcsank
July 2011: Target Reached S.H, IKolincak, snoopy, El_Marta, mik88, spinner, Gubi, Pierre1946, v1710, Londo16, Londo16, loftyc, Toasted_Toad, tacheles07, Messcaster, SAS~GJE52, cgagan
June 2011: Target Reached Blaubär, Docholiday, pjhmaka, Ivan le rouge, jlan5031, Le0ne, IKolincak, gianlucabagatti, Korrigan, cgagan
May 2011: Target Reached IKolincak, stukkaturner, Savoy_11, Blaubär, cgagan
April 2011: Target Reached cgagan, Toasted Toad, Dinga, alanbee, IKolincak, Maico, el bradipo, pjhmaka
March 2011: Target Reached woofiedog, Le0ne, Maico, cgagan, IKolincak, Korrigan, snoopy, SAS~GJE52, Pierre Maka (sorry I could not trace the username), and Poltava, dona, jlan5031, brickhacker, Anthony Langley, Jimdandy and the guys from the 51st fighter Intecptor Squardron
February 2011: Target Reached Beachy, IKolincak, Epervier, SAS~GJE52, Docholiday, Biltongbru, Phlegethon, RUBADUR
January 2011: Target Reached FlyingShark, Stefan Oltersdorf, IKolincak, Dykefish, cgagan, Highlander_262, Korrigan, blaubaer
December 2010: Target Reached Docholiday, Le0ne, CWMV, Shardana, IKolincak, pippin, jlan5031, doc42, PanamaMan, Mark Turner, Walshy71, boogabooga, fabo28
November 2010: Target Reached IKolincak, Triad773, Toasted_Toad, Mark Turner (dont know screenname!), Korrigan, Biltongbru, SAS~GJE52, cgagan
October 2010: Target Reached Biltongbru, SAS~GJE52, jlan5031, kirk1965, IKolincak, Docholiday, ggrewe, Le0ne
September 2010: Target Reached Bwf, HerrWulf, Korrigan, IKolincak,
August 2010: Target Reached JackS, Docholiday, ggrewe, IKolincak, bougnat22, cgagan, Le0ne, Flanker35M
July 2010: Target Reached Korrigan, Epervier, Le0ne, IKolincak, Triad773
June 2010: Target Reachedsalvadi, Klaus Sohn(urmel), SAS~Sani, cgagan , jlan5031, Donaghy, chair1 ,
VH Rock, Le0ne, Skyhigh, SAS~GJE52, FlyingShark, IKolincak, Docholiday
May 2010: Target Reached Korrigan, Spinner, SAS~BombsAway
June 2009 until April 2010: Target Reached Biltongbru, vtrelut, IKolincak, BaronFel181, GJE52, crazyflak, levine59, viking4570,
jlan5031, cgagan, Toasted_Toad
