Hi everyone!
Running a Minecraft server network of our size takes a lot of time and in Australia it also takes a lot of money. To support the number of servers/worlds we have with minimal lag, it requires a lot of hardware. Unfortunately, hosting costs in Australia are considerably higher than in many other places in the world and we rely solely on donations to keep AddstarMC running.
In recent months, we’ve been struggling to meet our monthly donation goals in order to cover costs. We’re getting close to the end of the June and so far (at the time of writing this post) we have only received 61% of our required donations this month. We know we have been very slow to release new content this year, and we apologise for that. We have been working on some really big projects and we also had a lot less time to work on things due to personal IRL commitments.
AddstarMC is entirely run by volunteer staff and no one is paid (not even admins). The money we ask for is purely to pay for the costs in running all the services (server hosting, data usage, website, Ventrilo server, etc). All the money goes into keeping AddstarMC going.
We completely understand that many of you unable to donate and that’s absolutely fine. But if you are fortunate enough to be able to donate and you enjoy playing AddstarMC, please consider helping us <3
So we’d like to hear from the community suggestions of things that might help encourage donations.
-add