So, as most of you are aware, our server survival is dependent on generous donations from the player base, which are solely used to pay hosting costs.
Antilogy spoke to me last night about ideas for cutting server costs and we did a bit of digging. To cut a long story short, we've ended up getting our current host to cut our costs while keeping our current configuration (so we don't have to go through the pain of server migration) - we're going from $237/month to $128/month, which is a pretty massive saving of 46%.
I'd like to thank everyone that has or plans on donating - your contributions keep the community afloat. This should definitely take a bit of pressure off for upkeep, and make it easier to keep the server running in the years to come.