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Posted Sun 15 May, 2011 9:17 PM
Good evening all.
Due to an increase in our operating costs our monthly donation target was recently raised from £70 per month to £80 per month. The target of £80 per month is actually slightly lower than our total operating costs for an entire year so it is actually neccessary for us to exceed this target slightly each month.
At the moment as our recent quarterly report shows we are in a good position financially however some of our biggest costs are annually so rather than having high monthly outgoings every month the bulk of of outgoings occur at once.
The increase of £10 per month is to fund the license of our web hosting control panel software.
Whilst we don't like having to require more donations it is an unfortunate requirement in order to finance the services we use and provide and does keep the website and forums advert free.
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Posted Mon 16 May, 2011 8:17 AM
The £10 goes a long way towards the automation of the server, such as automatically restarting any services which overload and go offline, such as Apache the HTTP Server. The control panel acts as a firewall, reports any and all unautherised activity, makes it easy to add and setup new domains and subdomains, takes a lot of effort out of sorting FTP's and much more!
So pick which benefit it will be for you!
Site uptime of 99.9% or... not! 
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Posted Mon 16 May, 2011 8:47 AM
lol good way of putting it Neo. We managed to get a good deal thanks to Neo's research for Plesk as well, so thankfully the incurred increase in cost has been minimised.
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Posted Tue 17 May, 2011 6:38 PM
I've just recently donated £20 in the bank. I've had my paypal confirmation so I hope that it's been recived.
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Posted Tue 17 May, 2011 8:29 PM
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Posted Tue 17 May, 2011 9:30 PM
We're having to manually input donations at the moment. Sharp is working on fixing the donations mod we're using, however all donations are being received. Everyone who has donated this month however should have received a confirmation and thank you PM. Please let me or Sharp know if this has not been the case. Thanks 
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Posted Tue 17 May, 2011 9:42 PM
I will be making a donation soon. I'm having a long standing battle with Paypal as they have frozen my account until I can confirm my bank details.Only issue is I don't have my bank registered and they won't let me register it...so I'm having to use a friends which is a bit of a pain. 
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Posted Tue 24 May, 2011 3:02 PM
If paypal wasnt the only option to use, i would gladly donate £10 every 1 or 2 weeks. You should get some more options out there, paypal, postal order, bank transfer etc
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Posted Tue 24 May, 2011 7:25 PM
Personally I wouldn't be a big fan of postal orders or bank transfers would mean you would have to give your money to one specific person for them to then pay in to the account. That would only increase the risk of donations not making it to the {UFP} account. The only other option would be for us to register as a business which would require a fair bit of admin work and donations would count as income which means we would need to declare them and would likely be taxed on them.
PayPal operates in 190 different markets which means all of our members that have a bank account have the technical ability to donate easily. There are over 282 million PayPal users which makes them a major player in their field. I think for ease of use they do offer the best service in the market.
If you do want to donate and are happy to pass money on to another member via a postal order or bank transfer for them to then donate via Paypal it is something you are welcome to do but personally I wouldn't recommend it because if something were to go wrong it could be quite difficult to resolve.
In future we might look at finding ways to offer different ways of donating but I think for the moment PayPal is a good fit for us.
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