🙏Please Read Fundraising To Move Office Outlaw To A New Server

[Zwielicht]

Goal: $383.88
Current Amount: $47.15
Amount Left: $336.73
Note that the goal amount may be lowered over time since we’re looking to move to a server that better suits this forum’s needs. ​

We've started this thread as we're looking to raise funds to move Office Outlaw to a new host. The current host is a VPS I already had that's quite expensive and we're not even nearly using close to all of the resources we have on it.

Any membership upgrade payments or donations made from this point on will go to the new server payment.

I started it off with $47.15.

When Does This Fundraiser End?
This fundraiser will end on July 31, 2026.

What Happens If We Don't Meet This Goal?
We'd just move Office Outlaw to a shared host, but we'll probably be moving it to a new host anyway. The amount just determine how good of a server we can get.

Worst comes to worst, the site speed may be affected, although we're still running some tests based on the current traffic and resource usage to make sure the other host can handle it.

What Else Can You Do?
If you can't donate, no problem. In fact, if you know of any hosting companies that would be better for OO, we're open to recommendations as well.

Here are the current resource stats for OO:

• 1.1GB of our 2GB RAM limit used
• 3.4GB of storage space used
• 2% of our 2 vCPU cores used.

Xenforo sites usually require a minimum of 1GB of RAM, which is why that's used the most.

 

[Outlaw]

Three days til payday, will circle back

 

[t2van]

Get a linode

My servers cost me $700-900 a year and I think I get more traffic than here. No offence.

I just mean your paying half my costs now seems high that's all.

You got to manage it your self. But should be better

Where do we donate the donate link?

 

[Zwielicht]

My servers cost me $700-900 a year and I think I get more traffic than here. No offence.

Yeah, that’s exactly why I’m looking to move the server regardless. The current VPS is one I used to host sites for clients and myself. I no longer host sites for others these days and I have fewer sites than I used to, so it’s overkill for just one forum. That, and they far cheaper than this years ago.

I can look into getting a linode server. Thanks for the suggestion.

Where do we donate the donate link?

There’s a PayPal donation button and a Stripe donation link on the Donation page here: https://officeoutlaw.com/help/donate/

Alternatively, if you want a badge in your profile, you can get a Patron membership on the upgrades page: https://officeoutlaw.com/account/upgrades

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Three days til payday, will circle back

Thank you!

 

[Dopious]

With that price you get a great server, although in Sweden with these specs 8 vCPU Processor 32 GB Memory 400 GB NVMe SSD 20 TB Bandwidth here, I got a 2 cpu and 4gb server there that costs me $43 a year, works great. This is not a cheap server either as you have Ceph Replication-3 redundancy on it, read more about that here, not you normal cheap vps.

 

[Zwielicht]

With that price you get a great server, although in Sweden with these specs 8 vCPU Processor 32 GB Memory 400 GB NVMe SSD 20 TB Bandwidth here, I got a 2 cpu and 4gb server there that costs me $43 a year, works great.

That right there sounds excellent.

Are you paying that much for a managed or unmanaged VPS? I remember last year, I had a Flokinet server that had pretty good pricing, although it was unmanaged, so I had to set it all up myself.

 

[Dopious]

Are you paying that much for a managed or unmanaged VPS?

It is unmanaged since I slap a FlyWP panel/system as I host WP sites. But, This is not a cheap regular server either as you have Ceph Replication-3 redundancy on it, read more about that here, not you normal cheap vps. This is real business servers, not to be confused with regular cheap vps servers.

 

[t2van]

I think what @Dopious suggested sounds perfect for the cost and lets you expand and grow with it. Certainly gives you some more flexibility and slashes your current over heads.

Linode is unmanaged and you would need to place your own control panel on it if you wanted that kind of thing or you just run it all from the terminal.

Even something line like Bluehost VPS is under $100 for the year in advance for 2 cpu, 4gb ram