City of Heroes: Rebirth Forums

It's now the spring and once again the server's bills are now due.

Once again, no new charges and we're fortunate that there are no price increases this time around. (Everything from the last Fall/Winter bill is coming over to this bill.) Hell, the data center even gave us two new hard drives to store more stuff on (for free)!

As a reminder as to what the payments are going towards, here is an itemized list:

Planned Bills (for six months)

• 2x $456.00 : These are rented baremetal servers that hold the Main Live server and the public PTS server. (as well as some web components, like our manifests)
• $240.00 : This is the staff's internal PTS server (Beta). This server pretty much lets the staff make changes to the code and test internally before we push it to the public PTS. We tried to run two servers on one box by toggling which one you log in to but that caused issues when people consistently tried to log in on the PTS server outside of the test times. So this server was bought to accommodate a change.
• $30.00 : This is currently being used to host the web forums, wiki, main website and the beta ground for the new web page.
• $120.00: This is the new Alpha shard, hosting the new game world for internal testing to not disturb the PTS with our changes. Additionally, this server hosts all of the git repositories that we use to power, code, and make changes the game in a collaborative manner.
  
• Grand Total: $1302.00

How to Donate:
Currently PayPal is being used to collect donations via "PayPal Pools". Additionally, a few people have reached out to donate via Wise (f/k/a TransferWise) and while that is possible, will need to be handled privately. If you are an international player and wish to donate in Euro or GBP, you can reach out to me (retched) via Discord and I'll provide details on how you can donate should you choose not to use PayPal. Same goes with other funding sources (PayPal direct, CashApp, etc.) Additionally, a new PayPal account has been made to hold the funds as well. (@retchedcoh)


I also, cannot stress this enough:
Most times we always end up with a bit of overflow. If you miss the cut, do not stress it. We still enjoy you and thank you for the time that you spend playing on COH: Rebirth!

The bill is due on September 1, 2024. Any extra funds will be used to prepay the next six months in March 2024. Feel free to reach out on Discord in DM or Forums in DM.

Please remember that donating does NOT grant any additional benefits or rewards in the game and any donations received are final, and not subject to a refund.

As always thank you for your consideration and donations!

- retched

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Attached below is proof of payment for the Rebirth servers' main server costs.

The next bill will be due on September 1, 2025, and generated on or around August 18, 2025. (I'll try to post the bill sooner rather than later.)


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