Hey everyone,

It's been quite a while since we last ran a donation campaign, however our coffers are almost empty for next month's server costs.

The good news is we've drastically reduced our costing requirements over the past few months. This time last year, our first server cost $475 p/m. We soon outgrew a single server and were running 3 servers less than 3 months later, costing over $1,100 p/m. Since then, we have renegotiated our plans often, haggling down the price, and changed providers 3 times. All of this, was to ensure we could offer our community the most cost effective servers in Australia. To this date, we are very proud of having achieved this.

While demand for DayZ has dropped, we will be cutting down to 1 physical server. When DayZ Stand Alone is released (or an ARMA3 DayZ mod), we can rent more servers again. Having one server will drop our monthly costs to only $250 p/m, and still let us run ANZ #1, ANZ #3, and our ARMA3 server.

So please, dig deep (especially if you have not had a chance to donate but enjoy our servers). Now is also a good time to jump in our forums and offer suggestions on what we need to change while we are consolidating data and reconfiguring a few things.

We will be retaining our first box, which runs ANZ #1, ANZ #3, and ARMA 3 Server #1. ANZ #4 and the ARMA3 Server #2 will be decommissioned, with all data backed up. Our TeamSpeak3 server will also be migrated to a new IP address, but should only require a small amount of down-time.

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