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10/04/2002, 02:41 PM
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Email message I just rcvd from pocketdev.org (proxy server) FYI
Hi,
About a month ago, i sent an email asking for donations, so far, only 7
people have donated!
Due to the increasing usage and cost of running the server, as of monday,
im going to have to unfortunatly start charging for the service.
There are currently almost 7,000 people using the compression server, and
there are about 20 new signups every day, so much that its starting to tax
the server.
So this weekend i will be moving it over to a faster server i just got
done setting up, this will increase the throughput dramatically (the server
is 4X's faster than the current one). i did this because i noticed that it
was getting sluggish, the CPU is running at 100% alot now.
So as far as the cost goes, the cost to use the server will be a one time
yearly fee of $40.
For those 7 of you who already donated, im giving you free access to it
for as long as i run it, regardless if you donated $5 or $50. (yes i had
both extremes). Its my gift for your recognition of the hard work. If you
are one of those people, just send me an email, and ill let you know how to
access it (once i get it set up on the new server).
For the rest of you on the list, if you donate $20 prior to sunday, i will
give you 1 year of access. you can paypal pocketdev@hotmail.com to make your
donation.
The website and the server *should* be all setup by sunday night, and the
old server will be discontinued.
Its now been over 2 years since i have developed the server, and im
surprised to see how popular it has really gotten. I had hoped to have kept
it free all the time, but for some reason im seeing more and more people
using it over the last few months. I use to see maybe 1-2 signups a day, now
its reaching as many as 20 a day.
I hope to see alot of you continue to use it, and for those that dont, i
do appreciate and thank you for all the positive feedback and comments, its
really helped the server develop as it is today. This has been a very unique
and positive experience for me, i never imagined that one little idea i had
while playing with my ipaq, would turn into this.
--Karl
karl@pocketdev.org
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