"Donations" to site upkeep?

The plea to members to donate seems a bit odd.

It is currently showing that "We're currently 0% of the way to achieving our goal of £50"

Quite a while ago I made a donation vai Pay Pal that ought to have upped the percentage to target by a significant amount but it didn't and the amount raised still showed something like 30% though I can't remember the exact amount.

Now it seems the amount raised has fallen back to zero. Is this a scam or what!!?

 

We're having problems with the donations bit at the moment Dave, trying to sort it out.

It'll go back to zero at the end of each month as its for monthly costs. Nathan has been having to manually put the donations thru to make it show on the counter.

Hopefully we'll have it sorted soon Thanks for the donation by the way, as they say in Tesco, every Lidl helps

 

Thanks for your reply Ziggy.

If GC is paying £50 per month it seems a bit steep.

 

No worries Propper Dave, the old V buletin board was about £30 a month but the software was so old the hackers were finding ways in.

If any members use other forums that still use vb, i'd strongly recommend they make sure their password on there is not the same as any they use for banking etc. As it could be hacked now.

 

We take Arbustus sometimes, but he does tend to scare people off.

 

For the amount of bandwith and CPU resources GC consumes a month we "should" really be on a dedicated server unit (over £150 a month)

£50 is a bargain and its pretty impressive we're able to keep going on a VPS (the amount of guest traffic a month has increased great since our move to xenforo

 

I'd no idea that web space had become so expensive, but it's about 7 years since I last ran a dedicated site and that was without most of the facilities offered by the current version of GC.
May I suggest that the plea for funding in the GC Splash Screen is edited to show just what it costs per month to provide this excellent resource for gardeners. It might encourage more contributions.

 

Cheers for that Proper Dave, will copy and paste your post onto the office noticeboard Good call

 

Seems to be working better now though a shame that finance has to be calculated in US$ rather than sterling or €. Anyway, that's just about cleared out my PayPal account and I'll have to flog something before I can afford further contributions.

 

You're a good man Propper Dave

Nathan is still looking for a Sterling version, but we needed to get something together quickly, as the last app just disapeared

 

I know the feeling...