by Laephis on Mon Mar 01, 2004 2:52 pm
First of all, if you are going to post like a dumbass, at least get your terms right: The shard has never "crashed."
Second, I'll be glad to give you a refund once you give me mine. Let's see:
Server hardware: ~ $1000
Monthly ISP costs: $35. Been doing it for 1.5 years, total cost: $630.
Hours spent setting up and maintaining firewall, Windows patches, file transfer software, backup procedure, troubleshooting ISP problems, staying up late, making my wife angry because of it: You don't even want to know. Might want to add "running quests" and "answering help pages" to my refund check, too.
Oh, and just to keep this in perspective...Total number of people who donated to the server hardware upgrade: 1.
Let me be clear: I don't do this because I like spending money, or giving away my time, or dealing with problems. I do this because I enjoy it and have fun providing a free service to people. Most of the time. Posts like this make it entirely unfun. I don't like the ISP having problems anymore than you do. I spoil you with 18 months of clean connections, and the first time there is an extended problem I get this kind of crap?
I'm sick of the bitching on the boards. The DSL will be permanately fixed as soon as I can get Speakeasy/Covad to identify the problem and resolve it. If I see anymore posts which include phrases like "the shard is down AGAIN", I'll be tempted to just leave it "down."