Our goal has been met! Thank you to everyone who has donated and continues to support the site!

It's that time again here at PSU! We have had quite a bit of new traffic over the past several months and introduced some new features that have increased our costs. As a result we are kicking off another Fundraiser to support the site!

As you know we at PlanetSide Universe are 100% community run and supported. This means that we have no advertisements and all of our support comes from donations and from the PSU Staff. Our main cost at this time is bandwidth that is steadily rising due to the release of Stat Signatures and in increase in usage of our Wiki. At the time of writing this news post we support over 3,000 statistic signatures. Last month we did about 850GB of data transfer whereas the previous month we did 550.

We have decided to do a donation drive with a goal of $1800! This will suport us (at our current costs) for about 6 months, in addition to what remains from our previous donations that's about 7 months if costs remain the same. This money supports all of our services, domain registrations and any other costs that may arise as part of operating PSU's services. All donators will get marked as contributors on the forums and those who donate $100 or more will receive a gold username on the forums. Contributors are also able to see post counts and do a few other small things. We plan to add more features for contributors at some point in the near future. If you have suggestions for contributor features let us know!

Hit up the PayPal donation button over on the left side of the page or in this news post! Be sure that when you donate you use the same e-mail as you have registered here on PSU so we know who to mark as a contributor.

And for those of you a bit more interested in what we are running "Under the Hood" here on PSU hit up the comments thread where Hamma will go into a bit more detail.