thatll never happen because let me tell u all a story
When we first ahd the idea of a server, i talked to nick alot in school because he was the one with a good computer and me using my craptop had no chance of hosting a server. so we talked a bit and after a while, it was nicks birthday so 6-8 of us were talking about a server, we decided on a SMP just for us or something you know.
After a while we discovered plugins and then i came up with idea of makign a public server. They all agreed and thus vanillaspice was born. I first came up with donations, as sort of a "buff" to pvpers because PVP became VERY popular in vanilla spice so i figured why not reward people who wanted to help us out? Nick and literally EVERYONE ELSE saiud "No, tahts stupid, noone would donate to an online game thats free blah blah blah." After i got 3-4 of our players to inquire about it, nick finally gave in and said somthing similar to, "Fine, but only like a $5 one to see if something actually happens"
After that we got $50 in a week or so and we started making new doner packs.
SO, even if we closed the sevrer, it wouldnt be perm. We would either make a new server, in which previous doners would get perks or justkeep it up as is.