Monthly Community Fund

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.