theKeep

The Keep's server requires a certain amount of money each month to pay the bills. It's a pretty powerful server (and it has to be, if it's going to support hundreds of simultaneously connected people) so occasionally we require some help from the users to pay that money.

Because of a shortfall in the banner ad revenue (they help pay for the server, without them it would be too expensive for us to run the site), we will need some patrons to step forward and help cover the remaining costs. We've broken the donations up into blocks of server-time, each block currently being 15 dollars, American.

Not only do we have a shortfall in funding, we also need to upgrade the server. Have you noticed how many times you've been disconnected from TheKeep lately? Without better hardware, we can't fix that problem. And in order to get better hardware, we have to spend more money.

All of this has lead us to introduce the Patron system. The Patron System allows everyone to contribute to running theKeep. Everyone who purchases a block of server-time will be recorded (if they wish they can also donate anonymously) in a contributor's section. Those who contribute to running a lot of these blocks of server-time will receive special recognition.


The program to the right shows how many blocks we (the owners) have taken care of, either from our banner ads or from our own pockets, and how many blocks we still need funds for. It doesn't include all the costs we have (we cover all of these separately) for other parts of running the website, but does include the webserver portion.


Q. Do we have a way to accept payment through sources other than PayPal?


A. Not at this time.



Q. Is there a list of past donors?


A. Yes. See here. Not everyone is on it - we only put the people who want to be listed there. If you're not on this list but should be, give us a shout!

Patron System Program


Block tracker disabled until system is finished being restored - the script can't run



There are 14 remaining blocks that haven't been paid for.
Please contribute to help keep the server running!

Please donate in blocks of fifteen dollars if you can - every fifteen dollars means another block of server-time has been paid for.



Coloured blocks have already been paid for. Grey Blocks haven't.