Just wanted to drop in and give a big S! and thank you to Zen for helping me with keeping the server going.  I sincerely hope that this will all work out in the end and the server can keep going.  I have strived to create a server that the community will enjoy, and i think its done just that.  I have tried my best to listen to what the community wants and what they look for in a server.  With that i have made every decision based on this information.  But as you all know, hosting servers is expensive.  The current link the server is on will not be availible much longer and I need to find a new host.  As you TX guys know, hosting costs are large.  If times were different, i would have no problem at all covering the costs, but i cannot at this time.  So now i am turning to the flight sim community.  If you enjoy the serve and want it to stay around, please dontate to the hosting costs.  The more people that donate, the easier this is going to be.  The server gets somewhere around 200+ players a day on it.  If each of these players donated simply $10, this would fund the hosting costs for well over a year.  And i dont mean $10 a month, i mean simply a one time donation of $10 from around 200 player.  Now i know that i am living in a dream world and that no where near 200 people will donate, but i am just using this example to show how if the masses join together, its a small amount per person.  This is a great community and i can only hope that we can all ban together and make this happen.  

  S! to all, and again, thanks to the TX squad for all their help.

SPaRX

Just a little more info on what i have in mind if we can get this new hosting.  The server should be more then enough to run two dedicated scripted servers on.  I intend on running one server just like the the current server. Nothing will change with that one.  But the second server i plan on making it passworded for use by donating players only.  On this server we could do alot of different things.  Set up different missions, settings, just about anything.  Some thoughts that come to mind are, we could have some nights that are historical based battles, or we could run some sort of leauge.  Just about anything.  I will leave this up the the donating players.  Everyone could come up with ideas and we could go from there.    I'll keep posting as i come up with ideas or as ideas are brought to me.S! againSPaRX

~S to you SpaRX  you've become a great friend of ours, and in the past  were supportive of our needs when the TX OC3 was down. You host a fantastic server, and do a great job on missions and such. I don't think you will have a hard time keeping the server going.

Just some updated info on what the game plan is.www.kovachzone.us/il2server.htm

Sparx,                Just a heads up...check on this link for much better pricing/machines, bandwidth. http://www.servermatrix.comLet me know if you're interested....I know one of the sales girls there....Regards,TX-Rahman"BLUE 2"

Rahman,  I have looked at their hosting service as well.  To get the same machine config i am getting it will cost me the same except there i will have a setup fee.  At the datacenter i have purchased at now, i have no setup fees and it runs teh same pricewise.  Thanks for the heads up though.sparx