From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 15:10:09 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83728CA9 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [192.99.32.153]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B67C2432 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:10:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tds-solutions.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31221FFD12 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:09:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at tds-solutions.net Received: from tds-solutions.net ([127.0.0.1]) by tds-solutions.net (tds-solutions.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6W44uZhGD6Ng for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:09:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (24-177-51-95.dhcp.oxfr.ma.charter.com [24.177.51.95]) (Authenticated sender: sorressean) by tds-solutions.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BEEDCFF4A3 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:09:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <53A994C7.7080308@tysdomain.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 11:09:59 -0400 From: "Littlefield, Tyler" Reply-To: tyler@tysdomain.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: server funding Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:10:09 -0000 Hello all: I recently ran across devio.us as a shell provider from BSDNow and had a thought along those same lines. I am a fan of MUDs and they're dying out. I'd like to provide a community where people can work and develop their own MUDs. I'm looking for a company or someone that wouldn't mind dedicating a couple cheap servers to this; I'd like to run FreeBSD on one and Linux on the other to give them a choice in what they run; if I can not get two (since that's a bit above what I'm expecting), I'll just go with FreeBSD. My thought is this: free service while you're building your mud, then you pay $5 minimum (we could have plans, or may maybe even just small upgrades (extra ram, hd space). for email, web and the mud to run when you actually start hosting it and getting players. That money would go directly back into paying for the servers; any extra (if there is extra) I'd like to donate to Guide dogs for the blind. Hopefully this doesn't sound to odd. As I said, I'm setting out to do this to support people in their learning and not to make any money off of it. Guide Dogs for the Blind is where I received my first guide from; I'd like to give back with a project like this, even if it is an extra of $5 a month. to this end, I am looking for: 1) A grant, fund or similar that would allow me to purchase 1 (possibly 2) servers that could be used for this task. They don't have to be incredibly high end servers, but I do foresee a lot of compilation happening, so something with the processing power to sustain that would be great. 2) A company or individual who has something extra they wouldn't mind putting up for the cause; I would greatly appreciate that as well. Thanks all for the time, -- Take care, Ty http://tds-solutions.net He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.