BigD Gaming Community operates purely on the generous donations our community members make available each and every month – without the donations, BigD Gaming would not be able to provide the services it currently does.
The following services are paid with your donations:
Dedicated Server based in Sydney, Australia
I7-7700k 4.2/4.5GHz
480GB M.2 SSD
64GB RAM
5TB Data/month
Windows Server 2016
What runs on our Dedicated Server?
SQUAD Game Servers (licensed, training, modding, matches, etc)
Other Game servers depending on demand
Discord bots
Dedicated Server Cost per month = $183.69
Windows Server License for dedicated server per month = $31.90
Total Dedicated Server Cost per month = $215.59
Web Hosting based in Sydney, Australia
High Priority CPU usage
300GB Bandwidth
Large mySQL processing power
What runs on our web hosting?
BigDGaming.net website & forums
Custom scripts that manage whitelisting for donators & admins automatically via website permissions
Total cost per year = $323.40
Footnotes
BigD Gaming donations are used to cover community operation costs.
Donations to BigD Gaming are completed entirely at the users discretion.
Donations to BigD Gaming are voluntary and not refundable..
We do not require donations to play on any of our servers, or utilise any of our services.
Our current monthly donation goal is: $250.00
Why is it higher than our monthly costs listed above? Simply to cover the months where donations do not meet the minimum to keep our services alive.
BigD Gaming also pays yearly licensing costs for XenForo & associated add-ons.