Community Fundraiser!

[Availer 681]

http://twitch.tv/thelordofthecraft

Hello there everybody. I'm sure you are all aware of the DDoS issues that we've been having lately. We've exhausted most of our techniques to fight the DDoS attack, with Vaquxine our lead Technical Developer and Programmer working very hard to negate the attacks. However, we're facing a DDoS attack that's too strong and well protected to simply disarm via software. We're running on an expensive Dedicated Server on the Limestone networks that costs around $1,000 a month to run. A lot of the bandwidth we have to pay for is DDoS bandwidth and it's costing us and the community dearly. We can't simply allow the server to stay down, it's not fair for our donators, it's not fair for our community and it's not fair for all staff members who have spent hours labouring on LoTC.

There's one way to negate this attack and it's to rent a hardware modification that will filter the DDoS. At the current speeds, we will need a DDoS filter that costs exactly $400 for one month that will negate 1GB/s of DDoS traffic. At worst the server will go down for 10 seconds and come back up again if we are hit hard by a DDoS.

For that reason we're doing a Livestream Community Fundraiser. Members of staff will be taking it turns to entertain our community through exploring Asulon, searching through our amazing forums and reading your incredible posts, playing online games together or simply answering some of your questions. So we ask you to support us! Even if it's just by watching the stream and taking part! We hope to run the stream for 24 hours starting 12AM GMT +1.

So check out our Livestream in the embedded video above OR you can visit us on

www.twitch.tv/thelordofthecraft.

These donations will work to increase your VIP rank or give you VIP if you don't have it. So make sure to make an in-game Modrequest after your donation. For more information on our donation packages check our donation page linked above.

If you have any questions feel free to message the staff on the Livestream or come and meet us on Teamspeak!

[Skippy 2466]

Time to get some monies.

[craotor 617]

I spent all my money geting ddos equipment so I have no money to donate

[Aelu / Rel (Combustionary) 1540]

My money's tied up with my Halo 4 Preorders and AC3 Preorder. Sorry.

[Temp 2006]

I'll drop another 15 when I get home. I still haven;t been given the Coal VIP status though.

[Dargene 51]

Mustmust get job.. get monies to help

[Neri 3590]

I'll drop another 15 when I get home. I still haven;t been given the Coal VIP status though.

Simply post a Modreq ingame with maybe a link to a screenshot of the transaction confirmation - perhaps not even that would be needed.

Also, what would the staff think about maybe the community doing some gaming marathons also?

[Garret Baretta (preston19) 29]

*Needs monehs to deny the ddosers.

DDosers shall be denied!

[Space 2335]

Wow, Availer just said OOC was disgusting. Worst admin/guy ever.

[Miquill 188]

I want to donate badly, but I have no money nor would I be able to donate for I have no credit card and my mom will yell at me if I try to spend money on a video game. Sorry :cry:

[Skippy 2466]

I'm going to donate 40 dollars soon enough.

[ski_king3 0]

Just donated, but no mods to redeem donations... There should probably be a mod on throughout this 24-hour livestream at all times to keep the people who make donations satisfied, as it says in the post to modreq immediately after donating.

[VonAulus 2082]

I gave 5 bucks.

[Strawberry114 43]

MustSaveForBorderlands2

I'll possibly donate some more!

[gabriel101x1 463]

MustSaveForBorderlands2

I'll possibly donate some more!

LoTC > every other game