InsaneJournal Announcements

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We are considering doing a fund raiser on IJ so we can move off our of Dedicated Servers and onto our own collocated servers. What this will allow us to do is lower the overall cost for running IJ and therefore be able to more easily upgrade our service as we will only have to add in hardware and not up our monthly costs to do this. In turn we can look at lowering prices around here once the site is moved and everything is stable.

What we hope to do is offer a new kind of account. The name isn't locked in stone but we are thinking of calling it "Hospital Benefactor". We will limit the sale to 175 of these accounts and charge $200 for them. We haven't finalized what the specs on the account will be, just that they will be a little more loaded than "Permanently Insane with Insane Userpics". We will only move forward on this if we can be sure there is going to be enough interest. Moving onto our own hardware has a number of benefits and we think it is worthwhile to attempt this sale.

Poll #3720 Account Type Generator
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Would you be willing to pay $200 for this account

Please leave any questions or comments in this entry and I will do my best to answer as many as I can. Please keep questions to this topic so I can better answer them.

I have shut off votes and comments on the previous post. The comments I received there made me rethink things so this is going to be the new poll to gauge things

We are considering doing a fund raiser on IJ so we can move off our of Dedicated Servers and onto our own collocated servers. What this will allow us to do is lower the overall cost for running IJ and therefore be able to more easily upgrade our service as we will only have to add in hardware and not up our monthly costs to do this. In turn we can look at lowering prices around here once the site is moved and everything is stable.

What we hope to do is offer a new kind of account. The name isn't locked in stone but we are thinking of calling it "Hospital Benefactor". We will limit the sale to 350 of these accounts and charge $100 for them. We haven't finalized what the specs on the account will be, just that they will be a little more loaded than Permanently Insane accounts. Something like 1000 userpics. And more notifications, etc.

We will only move forward on this if we can be sure there is going to be enough interest. Moving onto our own hardware has a number of benefits and we think it is worthwhile to attempt this sale.

Edit: We will allow you to transfer Permanently Insane status to another account if you already have one and you purchase one of these accounts

Edit 2>: If you answer maybe can you please let us know what we could to do change that maybe to a yes. Also please let everyone on your f-list know about this poll so we can get a large enough sampling of answers to know what we should do.

Poll #3722 Upgraded Account
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Would you be willing to pay $100 for this account