Economic Crisis, and AoV

Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:39 pm

As you probably already have heard, the economy is in a crisis with all the stuff that's been happening in the states. We are also affected as the price of precious metals have dropped and that is one of the major trade sectors. Our dollar may also drop which will mean more expensive server bills.

That said, I strongly encourage those who play to consider donating at least something per month as if the US dollar doubles over the Canadian one like it was back in the day, the server costs will simply be too high to keep the shard running. The last bill was $160 as opposed to $150 so already it seems to be slowly going up.

So far it's not too bad, and I've been working on my hosting control panel framework so once I get going with that and get some hosting clients things will be more stable. I will charge in USD for hosting so it matches up properly to meet server cost. The hosting income will probably only start rolling in after Christmas though, as there is still lot of planning stages before I actually go live with that project.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 9:22 pm

Ok I may be wrong, our dollar is actually doing better... lol

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/conve ... it=Convert

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Death · Post by **Death** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:02 pm

Forgot you lived in Canada?

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:43 pm

Oh, but Canada is still affected by US economy to some extent. Just did not figure we'd be affected, positively lol. Figured our dollar would drop even more from US buying less from us due to their economy Eronating.

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jrhather · Post by **jrhather** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 9:49 am

not even a real word.

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psychofox · Post by **psychofox** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 5:30 am

i'll try to donate some

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:43 pm

Our dollar face dived today. 1USD = 1.15 CAD or so.

I did manage to make 600 bucks out of it though, so that's a few months of the server paid right there. Transferred 4 grand US into my account.

Playing with money FTW.

Donations are still welcome though, as always. The donation money is for the server, while the money I make myself is actually suppose to go towards my future house.

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