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Descentforum.NET is a project which is running since January 2003 about a server-rental in Germany to host Descent-related services such as Game-Servers, Chat-, Application-, File and Web-Server incl. the Descentforum.de forum and several other descent-related pages and things such as a Teamspeak- and Ventrillo- Server, an IRC-Server, a Server-On-Demand (SOD) System and the member-sites as well as much further Descent-stuff like moon's Descendarium, holbred's Descent, the Pyromania project, the backup for DFiles.de and many many more things...
People of the Descent community participate by donations (or call it membership-fees if you want, which would be 5 Euros / ~7 US $ per month) as the rent costs about 120 US$ every month. Members (usually users of Descentforum.DE) gain some special privileges and access to special features as you can read below.
Descentforum.NET is coordinated and administered by Do_Checkor. Floyd and Zorc are the co-admins at the moment.
The hosting is done in the computer center of \"Schlund und Partner\" in Karlsruhe, Germany (1and1 nowadays).
Currently it is a Dual 2.0 GHz AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+ CPU server in a 19\" rack with 1024 MB RAM on Windows 2003 Server 64bit running as OS. The costs are about 89.00 € per month (ATM about 120 US$ ).
Advantages of the membership to Descentforum.NET (contract free / no obligations / no contract period)
1.: You can get an email-addy @descentforum.de or @descentforum.net
as an pop3/imap- / webmail-account or a mail-forwarding to an existing addy.
You can have a spam-protection or auto-responder for these accounts if preferred.
2.: You can get FTP access to your own web space (for descent-related
contents only) like www.descentforum.net/membername/ with 100 MB
space after payed membership of at least 6 months.
3.: Possibility to have your preferred level hosted. A minimum of THREE days is
guaranteed for the mission to run every month of active membership.
4.: For banning purposes and setting questions a voting right is granted to you.
5.: Only members have the right to get Private-Game-Servers (for 1on1s etc.)
6.: Access to the member-only areas inside www.descentforum.de and
the team-speak-server-channels (TS.Descentforum.NET:1236, pass: DFNET).
7.: Access to the SOD - Server-On-Demand system to launch spontaneous games
via website-configuration (easy-to-use), and the right to vote level additions.
If you want to join and get the banking details please send a mail to Checkor [AT] Descentforum [DOT] NET - or send me a private message here. Membership costs 5,00 Euros (~7,00 US$) per month and can be paid via PayPal too (click the link at the bottom of each descentforum.de page here or on www.descentforum.net ). A minimum of 5 Euros and a maximum payment of 60 Euros is set as a \"payment term\".
Any questions? Language issues? PM me!
Thank you for reading!
Martin \"Do_Checkor\" Timmermann