discussion forum paypal

[Guest]

John i see you now have a paypal donation button on the website portal ?

well i`ve sent a couple quid not much , but all helps.

please let me know when payment recieved

( p.s probs with pm`s on my account thats why posting here, could you look into it please, ty )

Adz..

 

[Guest]

well worth a few quid i think, i spend enough of mags and stuff

as adzam says every little helps

 

[Guest]

i agree pheonix i spend more time enjoying this site than i do on the magazines i buy! small donation sent, hope it helps with the new server and keep up the great work here John

 

[Guest]

Me too Donation from me and Char Dont know what id do without this place

 

[John]

A big thanks to everyone that has very kindly donated, I've just pre-paid for 6 months hosting so this is a good start to the next bill

Thank you

 

[Guest]

I don't want you to think I'm not supportive. I don't have a Paypal account though ( and very much don't want one) so I'll get in touch when I get home and chip in.

Thanks for all your support and dedication John, although the forum is its members it wouldn't happen without you at the helm.

 

[John]

Thanks Richard, I don't expect anyone to donate this is a free forum and it always will be, but it is all appreciated, this week I've had to bite the bullet and pay for our own server so I've paid 6 months pre-pay so anything received will be saved for the next payment in September

 

[wonwinglo]

Regarding Pay-pal I have to say that never had any real problems with the system myself,and it has enabled me to pay quickly for many hundreds of small items in the past,some dont like the 4 per cent charge slapped on low priced sales but that is the same as other financial bodies,generally if I make a few pounds then I spend the Pay-pal money on goodies so it is no good to hackers,a friend has had her account frozen with £100 in it,the reason she has reached a limit that requires her to re-activate her account,something to do with money laundering regulations ? the internet is riddled with people who have had problems with it,but as yet its usefullness has certainly help me buy things that would have required other ways to pay,there are a few million people who use it,and by the way despite what they say to the contrary,it is in fact an E-bay company,they bought it out last September.

 

[Guest]

Excuse my total ignorance but er....where is the donate bit i cant find it?

 

[John]

Excuse my total ignorance but er....where is the donate bit i cant find it?

http://www.scale-models.co.uk/index.php

it's a module on the right

 

[Guest]

just wondering john, and obvioulsy you dont have to tell us.

but if you want to....how much in total has been donated to you from your humble members?

 

[John]

I don't mind telling you, including Paypal fee's £47.67, I've just renewed one of the domains which cost £12.81 for 2 years, but the next hosting bill isn't due until September'ish

 

[Guest]

Come on guys for such a superb resource that we have here im sure if everyone put £1.00 in it would help out with the running costs

 

[Guest]

just wondering john....i was looking at the servers hosts website and wondering which package you have?

cuz the most space they have is 500mb and that cant be nearly enough with the amount of info/pics on this website?

or do i not know what im talking about?

 

[John]

just wondering john....i was looking at the servers hosts website and wondering which package you have?cuz the most space they have is 500mb and that cant be nearly enough with the amount of info/pics on this website?

or do i not know what im talking about?

We have 20GB of space and 500GB of bandwidth a month but I can increase that if needed, and the host is me, I thought it was a good way to fund the forums hosting bills

 

[Guest]

oh....so the server is a computer in your room and the "Hawk Hosting" is just for the domain name?

do you have the server on a linux of windows machine?

 

[John]

oh....so the server is a computer in your room and the "Hawk Hosting" is just for the domain name?do you have the server on a linux of windows machine?

No the server isn't in my room you would be lucky to host one small site from a home connection, it's in a data centre, it's running on 4x 3.06GHz Xeon CPU's with 512MB cache each and 8GB registered memory, Hawk hosting is the name of the company I set up and yes it is a linux server.

 

[Guest]

oh right! didnt realise you had your own server and hosting company.

hows that going??

has to be linux....safest!!!

 

[John]

oh right! didnt realise you had your own server and hosting company.hows that going??

has to be linux....safest!!!

I posted about it here

It seems to be starting to take of slowly, which is what I want, that way I can iron out any bugs or tweak stuff without too much problem.

And yes linux is much safer than Windows