GTAStunting Needs You

[AJ Collins]

Hey everyone,

You may have noticed over the past few days that GTAStunting has been slow and unreliable. You may have also noticed certain features getting disabled due to high load. Today I received notice that GTAStunting is using too many resources on the server and therefore has been suspended. While I had nothing but great things to say about the host before, the lack of warning and the terrible support turn around times as of late has caused me to rethink my choice. Our best option would to go for a more business oriented hosting with more room to stretch out, however this will cost more than I alone am willing/able to shell out. While there have been a few donations in the past (thank you), I've been paying out of pocket each month for the past three years to keep the site running. I've kept advertisements away from signed-in members and I haven't been throwing donations or personal appeals in your face. The money I do make from the advertisements is only few cents a day and I won't get that money until it hits $100 total. What I'm hoping is some of you might be able to donate via PayPal to keep the site running, stable and free of annoying advertisements. Even just a few bucks would be greatly appreciated.  In the mean time, I'll will continue to try and make do with the resources available to me.

Cheers,
AJ Collins

[Stevex]

If you could tell us how much you pay and the different fees, I'm sure that many members will help once they see what it cost to run this place 

[AJ Collins]

If you could tell us how much you pay and the different fees, I'm sure that many members will help once they see what it cost to run this place 

Currently it's around $150 excluding tax and domain fees a year. It's usually a bit more than that, I had a discount last year. The next tier of hosting would be a VPS. The cheapest VPS I can find with unlimited space and bandwidth is $300 a year.

[Diaz]

I'm sure a lots of stunters can help, GTAS mustn't die!
And personally,  I just want to thank you Collins for paying in the last three years, I didn't know you do it.
A lot of thanks again man

[Squeak]

Im afraid i cant give any, but i can send u 10K gtas points if it could help though.

[Sheep]

Yeah, if I only could move money from my bank account to PayPal I'd sure donate like every week or month
Maybe in close future..

Thanks for this announcement AJ.

[Cooper]

too bad $100 here are $25 there

[Jerka]

I have like 30$ on my Paypal account but for some reason it wont let me send money without linking a credit card to it, and Paypal wont accept my card...
(if anyone knows a way around this let me know)

[Squeak]

too bad $100 here are $25 there

yea, many peole are gettin less than 300$ here, sadly.
anyway thanks for keeping it alive, i really appreciate it.

[Ltab-]

Fuck argentinian money, it's hard to get much but will see if I can do something

[Syny]

I'm sure a lots of stunters can help, GTAS mustn't die!
And personally,  I just want to thank you Collins for paying in the last three years, I didn't know you do it.
A lot of thanks again man

[Beat]

Wish I could help but PayPal doesn't support Egypt..

[AJ Collins]

Thanks guys. I'll look into setting up other donation methods but PayPal is the easiest for me as I can have the money go directly to the hosting company. For now I've blocked some more suspicious IP addresses, modified the crawl rates of several search engines and optimized some SMF code. The site seems to be running much better now and using less resources. Hopefully it says this way and we'll be able to stay where we are.

[вαℓυ]

I think it'd be smarter to move to a new host, considering the negative things you said about this one. I'll try to chip in, to what email do I send the money though?

PS. Thanks for keeping us online all this time AJ.

[Shifftee]

Just donated all I had on my bank account. It was only a couple of dollars for now, so wait for my pay day.