As most of you know, and even for those who don't, guod doesn't own SimHQ anymore and has shifted his ownership to the SimHQ Motorsports website.
However, he does still rent the game servers and TS server that we all enjoy and use all of the time even here. I've known Doug (guod) for about 15 years and work as his right hand man in the forums and I can honestly tell you he doesn't want to ask for donations for the servers and TS...but the reality is...it's damn expensive when most of it is coming out of his own pocket. He's paying $170 per month just for the game servers and TS server that we all use. Add to that the SimHQMotorsports forum and it comes out to around $225 per month.
As guod says, it's not a threat...but a reality...if he can't get any help with the costs of the game servers and TS servers, he'll have to let them go by the end of the year because he simply can't afford them anymore. This isn't just for the motorsports folks...it includes you who use them here too.
Over a year ago I set up my Paypal to send a monthly payment to SimHQmotorsports to cover the motorports website so don't be put off about it being just the motorsports gear heads, and the other motorsports folks have been donating fairly well...but we need to expand the targeted donaters since he's pretty much month to month on the survivability of the servers. I'm not asking for a payment plan or anything, but any donation would be greatly appreciated and we can all help to keep the servers alive.
If you'd like to help out, go here and click the "tin cup" donation button and give a little.
SimHQ Motorsports I appreciate your time.