Y'know, I'd be a lot more inclined to donate to or pay for FurNation, and would be more sympathetic to Nexxus's plight, if FurNation wasn't his personal playground. What FurNation is doing (hosting pages and files for people) can be done without building a server room in Nexxus's home and running 1+ T1 lines in there. The $15K he's spent on that could have bought two years' worth of colocation in a nice, climate-controlled, hardened facility with off-site backup and a full time support staff (~$500/mo last time I checked), not to mention 99.99% uptime, which isn't exactly something FurNation has managed well. Shelling out some bux to keep a cool site running is one thing, but paying for someone else's hobby is quite another.
Y'know, I'd be a lot more inclined to donate to or pay for FurNation, and would be more sympathetic to Nexxus's plight, if FurNation wasn't his personal playground. What FurNation is doing (hosting pages and files for people) can be done without building a server room in Nexxus's home and running 1+ T1 lines in there. The $15K he's spent on that could have bought two years' worth of colocation in a nice, climate-controlled, hardened facility with off-site backup and a full time support staff (~$500/mo last time I checked), not to mention 99.99% uptime, which isn't exactly something FurNation has managed well. Shelling out some bux to keep a cool site running is one thing, but paying for someone else's hobby is quite another.