w3arena- the end of a short story?

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For everyone who followed the w3arena project this could be an interesting news. Today there was a news posted by one of the admins about the future;

"Ladies and gentlemen,

I'm not in a very good mood that I have to write this news item. But it has to be done.

In some weeks for now, we will have to take W3Arena - the server, the website and the chatserver down. This is due to the fact that Pad, who runs W3Arena on the servers of his company in webhosting, has sold it to someone else. This means that everything personal of him thats located there has to be removed from it. This means, removing W3Arena.

Since neither one of us, Pad or myself, earns enough (we are both students) we will be forced to take it down. The costs per month are €120,- and we will be unable to provide them for ourselves.

We make one final attempt to write a news item about this, in order to draw attention to this matter and hopefully be able to get support and find a sponsor somehow, even if chances are small. The sponsor would have to be willing to donate around 100 to 120 euro a month for us in order to keep everything going and improving the system.

Pad sold his company since he is really overworked the last months. After some weeks this will mean he will have alot of more freetime which could possibly be spend into W3Arena. But ofcourse, we cannot put those hours in it if its not possible to host it.

Hopefully we have informed you enough, if you have any other questions, feel free to post them in a comment below. If you'd like a more private way of contacting us, you can reach me on DeathWing@W3arena.net

Regards,

w3a.DeathWing"

Link: http://tft.replayers.com/?action=news_more&id=901

When the project started it developed very fast into the right direction. But the last 2-3 month there werent any developments made which may let people guess about what was going to happen sooner or later. In the end its all about the money money money, its all about the money money money...

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Update: W3arena added a donate button on their page showing how much they need for a month and how much is donated already. I dont think its a solution for more than 1-2 months, but probably they will keep themselves above water for a little time.

Link: http://tft.w3arena.net/news