For awhile I was using the pinion's advertising system where I would allow a plugin to launch an ad on the MOTD for all three servers and I would get a percentage of the total impressions made for the entire month. Yes, those generated a lot of revenue, but, at times would be annoying and aggressive. Now maybe some of you never noticed the Ad's and don't mind them, but I want CaliforniaCS to be a community without Ad's nor the ability to "buy" your way in.
The only advertisement is our in-game plugin that shows text messages that encourage people to the forums, giving out updates, notifying about giveaways, giving the option of donations,...
We've migrated from HostGator to NuclearFallout, the company that also runs our dedicated box. You should see a huge increase in speed, they offer a much higher quality network than the "shared" plan over at HostGator.
All sub-domains should be in route to changing the DNS over to NuclearFallout's nameservers, if you notice anything not working as of tomorrow (6/12/13) please report the issue to me directly.
I'll be transferring over SourceBans as well to our new web host to eliminate any unneeded expenses that can easily be avoided. Unfortunately, HostGator wouldn't allow me to open certain ports to host SourceBan's, therefore, I used...
After a long process and working with a wonderful designer & coder name Scott we've collaborated to make an exclusive style for our forums for CaliforniaCS. I have full rights to this style, I am able to customize anything with in reason to what is possible within the structure of Xenforo. I hope you all enjoy the style, I've tried to go with the CS:GO main colors which are orange/yellow combined, hopefully within in a few days we will put extra node tabs in the navigation bar to reflect bans, stats & donations.
Please keep in mind I will continue to be working on these forums, there is a still a lot of cool...
Thank you to everyone who has donated for the month of May!
We have thrived these past few months through the constant support through our community and without that solid support we would not be where we are today.
On a side note, I would like to apologize to those who donated as I forgot to write the names down, but nevertheless you know who you are and I thank you.
Notice:The donation total amount has increased from $135 to $150 due to recent purchases for CaliforniaCS and also an attempt to raise enough money to be able to give more back to the community....