Why support
CdnMilitary.ca?
CdnMilitary.ca
exists so that as a member of our community, you can
access resources to learn more about our military
and its history, while, at the same time, meeting
people with similar interests and engaging in lively
discussions. We are happy to provide this service to
our members; however, providing these services does
cost money and it is hard for the site owner, who is
currently attending university, to come up with the
considerable amount of money required to pay our
service providers. As such we ask that any member
who can spare a contribution to make a donation of
any amount to our endeavour so that we can continue
to provide a forum for your interest and enjoyment.
What benefits are
obtained from our service providers?
CdnMilitary.ca
Website
Our website provider
currently offers additional web space and bandwidth
under an annual package to which we subscribe. This
additional space and bandwidth allows us to host
image files for our community members (within
reasonable size limits) for posting at our
discussion forums, and any other forum on the
Internet for that matter. We also obtain a more
reliable host server compared to the free web
hosting package offered by our provider; the free
option currently results in several months of the
website being offline due to server issues and
exceeded bandwidth costs. It is important for us to
be able to maintain a paid web server package so
that the site is always available and we can provide
better services to our community members.
CdnMilitary.ca
Discussion Forums
We host our forums
with
Ezboard
which provides a subscription service for its hosted
forums which must be renewed once every six months.
The benefits of this subscription is that you do not
experience pop-ups and banner ads from Ezboard Inc.
when you visit our forums (the only advertisements
on our forums are those we enable via Google). Most
importantly however, key security features and a
database backup are provided under this subscription
service as well as many expanded features for
community members to utilize in their activities at
the forums.
How much do these
service generally cost?
Website hosting
package with Portland Communications (UK): ~$38.00
CAD /year GBP]
Domain Renewal: ~$25.00 CAD .year
Ezboard CSC Gold Community Subscription Renewals
(US): ~$140.00 CAD /year
Annual Projected Costs:
~$203.00 CAD
*Hosting costs
converted from GBP; CSC Renewals from USD
Making a Donation
to CdnMilitary.ca
If you want to help
out by making a donation to help pay for the costs
of maintaining CdnMilitary.ca, you can do so using
your Paypal account. Simply click the link below to
make a donation. If you do not have a Paypal account
but have access to Internet banking within Canada at
one of the major banking institutions, email the
webmaster
for details on how to make an email
transfer donation via the
CertaPay
[Interac]
system. Please be advised that donations are non-tax
deductible.
Every donation
counts!
Thank You for Your Donation!
