The Future of The Waffloid Server

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I don’t know how much longer The Waffloid Server will be running, hopefully for a decently long time. But right now we are running quite low on funds, thanks mainly to the EULA taking away all the good perks of donating which paid for the server.

With the doubling the server’s capacity in December of last year, adding a private Teamspeak server, getting a brand new website, and having custom plugins made for the server, things are getting very expensive to upkeep this server. We accumulated a good amount of donations from early Waffloids back in the following months after the grand opening, which has helped tremendously make a lot of the things get paid for, and I think everyone who has donated to make this server possible.

Most everything relating to the server has been paid for exclusively from donations, which is absolutely amazing. These things include, of course, renting the server itself, the Teamspeak server, hosting for the website, domain renewal for the website, new website layout, custom plugins, and some more. If we do continue, I hope we can afford to continue serving those specific features along with more features in the future. But for right now, we are starting to run dry.

Right now the Minecraft server is paid for through November, Teamspeak server is paid for through February of next year, and the website is paid for through April of next year. So if we don’t get any funds at all, we’ll still be up for a little while longer.

I just hope that with the 1.8 update we can get more players on, especially with a new promotional video I have planned for my channel when we update.

Worst case-scenario is that we get no more income to cover for all these expenses and we’ll have to take the server down indefinitely. In that case, I will provide a free download of all the worlds we hosted on the server so that you could continue your projects or even host the world(s) on your own server to continue playing with your friends. It just won’t have all the fancy perks and plugins.

TL;DR:
The Waffloid Server is running low on funds to cover for server hosting, teamspeak, etc. and we hope to find a way to help cover those costs while also not breaking that dumb EULA that likes to kill servers and stuff.

EDIT:
This doesn’t mean the server is shutting down, at least anytime soon. This is just to let people know the current status of the server. We still have the 1.8 update to look forward to, as well as that new promotional video I’ll be uploading on my channel and setting as my channel trailer. So that should bring in some new traffic when we update. Custom plugins are still pretty expensive (Up to $150 per plugin), but I’ll try to work in getting one made to get new donors those shop vouchers I talked about a few weeks ago.