How can you get people to donate?

Im a part of a server that is run from the Netherlands, which is 6 hours ahead of me. At night, the server owner shuts it down. So at about 6:00pm my time, the server goes down. The Admin though said that with more donations, he will get a hoster. How can you get more people to donate?

 

advertise the server and also give a ton of good commands if the player donates, maybe tell him to create a donator rank that always works also for donator make a certain time you get the rank and commands depending on how much they donate

 

Make donators get a VIP rank, where they are allowed to like use the boots with this plug in: http://goo.gl/9ZpW0
And if your server currency is gold like mine, offer them gold, or maybe sell 64 gold for $1. People will probably end up buying gold or VIP rank if you have the server open to many new players.

Let VIP get like 1 free item a day.. could be 1 dirt, or 1 diamond pickaxe, just make VIP rank seem worth the money. On my server VIP rank is $8 and they get tons of options, and access to enter the VIP cabin and VIP mine.

 

No one will donate to a server that isnt 24/7.

 

fuckin new that kiddo read the damn post

 

Okay let me rephrase; no one is going to donate to a crappy server that can't even keep up 24/7. Get a host first. Your server host is obviously a bad host if he can't keep it up 24/7 before. Why would anyone donate to keep a bad server up? Spend money to make money; get the host first.

 

Not 24/7 is not same as a bad server. In fact, Im the Hoster and Admin of the server. I will make VIP group and give it a hell of a lot of commands, but what you say doesn't in any way help me. (Except if you know a great cheap host)

 

As long as people get some kind of reward (like the VIP rank) for donating, you should get at least enough to get a decent host. But as time goes on your server will get better and better and make people want to donate even more.

parker_digg just won my "asshole of the day" award.

 

Hi You are talking about hosts, and I got a server (reklameslottet.dk), but I don't know how to get minecraft on it Plz help if it's possible

 

Thats the other thing, you cant give them a lot of commands. My highest rank out of 3 donation ranks only gets 10 more commands. Don't give a lot, just make them good ones. Like control to make shops, make their own area protection, things like that. You don't want them to be "powerful" but just have perks. How many people can your server hold?

 

My Vip gain no afkbooting and instant rank up to VIP that grants instantly all the lower the ranks with out logging the hours required in game to get it also as VIP I find plugins that are for fun that do not fit into general use for other ranks to spice it up a bit.

For $7 thats not a bad perk if you ask me ofc you still get demoted and banned if you not sensible with your new tools.

You can't force donations you can only offer a donation page and some perks for it if you are inclined to offer perks that is otherwise just advertise within your server you do accept donations and those willing to help out or simply want the perks will do so when they are ready.

 

As far as I know, you just have to upload it and start it (does your server provider have McMyAdmin?)

 

no :S

 

It isn't to keep a bad server up, it's to make a server good.
If they donate, the server will become 24/7.

Not sure why you can't understand that.

 

How to make a server 24/7?? I have an account on one.com, so can I set my server up on that?? Thanks

 

one.com is a web host.
You need something that can run MC. Dedicated/ VPS or one of the many Minecraft-based hosts.

 

Damn Where is a good Minecraft host?

 

servercraft.co

 

I use 123systems.net and rent a 2GB VPS server for $20 a month. You could easily get by with a 1GB server for 5-10 people at $12.50. Also if you use promotion code JULY25, they take off 25% right now.

It's been up 24/7 and they usually respond to any problems within 24 hours. It's not anything fancy but it usually runs 10-15 players with minimal lag.

It's not as easy of a setup as some hosts because it is just a virtual PC with an OS but I like it because I am able to host my website on there also!

(I put my referrel link in there. If that is against the rules, sorry! Let me know and I will remove it!)

 

Nice nice But what is a good ram for 5-10 players?? Is 512MB good??

 

ya

 

Can somebody help me by portforwarding ?? I'm connected directly to the "wall", so there is no router :/

 

i just used hamachi i hated port forwarding i cud never figure it out

 

i thought this was about a donator problem not about the stuff were saying so far this has gone relly of topic

 

ya hahaha.....MORE DONATOR IDEASSSSSS.....good?

 

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