As for getting the money together, for some folks, it may be tough. So here is a way that your establshed player comminuty or staff can help with the cost of hosting the playerworld.
1. have a world the people want to play
2. have a checking account, and an email account, and a website (even a free website from angelfire or tripod)
3. go to
www.paypayl.com
4. hook paypal up to your checking account (takes a few days to proccess but its free)
5. make a donation page with paypal's utilities (free)
(under merchant tools - website tools)
6. put the donation code on your web site somewhere
7. tell pepople, ie. in the server message, or in a timeout
every few minutes in a system npc, to please visit your donation
page and send whatever amount of money they want to help
support your server.
when you get money in paypal, you can send it to your checking
account for free., or keep it in paypal and send it to Unixmad to pay for the playerworld hosting. So long as the money is transfered, it should not matter where it comes from.
for an example, click here:
http://www.figmentcode.com/donate.htm
also see my sig for another link