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Hosting costs due. Donations needed!

Our next quarterly hosting fees are due! If anyone could spare a few dollars and donate to help us out, that would be much appreciated. If you could spread the word in your own journals that would help us a lot too!

With the server upgrade about a month ago, our ongoing operating costs are now quite a bit higher than they used to be. The upgrade also hit us with hardware installation fees as a one-off cost which we were able to cover easily thanks to past donations, but it drained the bank account further.

We now have about €900 ($1170USD) per quarter to pay.

These costs include our main server and secondary server hardware rent, rack space for the two servers, 100Mbit pipe to the net, externally hosted email+wiki and source code hosting just to name the major ongoing costs!

Considering how big and busy our site is, the high spec hardware and the unmetered data connection we get, the costs are actually amazingly low. But we still have to find that cash every 3 months!

If anyone could spare even a few dollars, that would help us tremendously. Anyone who donates can get a shiny sponsor badge on their account too. Just check out the details on the Donations page.

Thanks very much!

IB
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mobkiller
10 years, 10 months ago
i´ll send you some tomorrow^^
JeffyCottonbun
10 years, 10 months ago
Sent a ticket :3
Khzhak
10 years, 10 months ago
I so want to, but I'm kinda broke.  Soon though.
Harumi
10 years, 10 months ago
i send you a email.
catprowler
10 years, 10 months ago
Wednesday for the first time for me but I hope every three months
catprowler
10 years, 10 months ago
Sadly it took me till today but sent.
DarkestUmbreon
10 years, 10 months ago
I know theres problably a reason, but why not put a banner of advertising across the bottom of the main site, itd sure make $1200 every 3 months much easier...
KLT1M
10 years, 10 months ago
I would pick an artist(or group of artist) to draw for the first.....lets say 5 or even 10 people that donates 20 dollars or more
Ketsa
10 years, 10 months ago
This is as good enough reason as any to go back to Gold sponsor status. :3
iedasb
10 years, 10 months ago
This site is amazing, I wish I could donate, but I'm broke aswell :(
rautamiekka
10 years, 10 months ago
Can't help, as much as I like Ib.
EtherRu
10 years, 10 months ago
Fear not, Ink Bunny!  I hath sent bountiful coin.  TWO THOUSAND... Pennies!  Of course, that was too heavy, so I sent it to you digitally =^.^= PayPal is so nifty.
Jacinth
10 years, 10 months ago
Make a forum only accessible to Bronze+ members? :)
Harumi
10 years, 10 months ago
Its not a Bad Idea, a gallery of some members with Great art only for Donators
GreenReaper
10 years, 10 months ago
We have some artists who do something like that, but we'd rather they get the money! If they like the service we give, they can pass some on. :-)
Harumi
10 years, 10 months ago
i want try donate more times XP
Ketsa
10 years, 10 months ago
How close are we to the current funding goal?
shirokitsune
10 years, 10 months ago
Well why not have like a link to ads for furries so artist and furry sites can have a page dedicated for banners with descriptions next to them.
So youd have 2 random ads at the bottom of the screen and then a tab maybe between notices and pms for it.
Maybe like $20 a month at a rough guide
So the adds would be between the comment box and the links at the bottom
Shokuji
10 years, 10 months ago
Journal made, hope it helps. How far away is IB from reaching it's donation goal?
EvilDog
10 years, 10 months ago
I can't really afford to help,

but I do have a small suggestion, banner ads, which donators can choose to turn off
MistahToonCatUwU
10 years, 10 months ago
I'll do it next paycheck! tomorrow x3
LeafyGreens
10 years, 10 months ago
what about using project wonderful ads? those are pretty trusted, and i've seen a LOT of furry sites use them
Harumi
10 years, 10 months ago
I want to ask, what if the donator can see Human adult art, only the people who pay something is allowed to see human Pics in this site, its that possible?
GreenReaper
10 years, 1 month ago
We do not permit humans in sexual situations here primarily because they are problematic from a legal/moderation perspective. This would not change because we had more money, and we are not looking to introduce premium features; rather, we'd prefer that people donate so that everyone can enjoy the features that we have.
idleacct1
10 years, 1 month ago
Yes, I know this post is old but I just found this news message.  I did not know that it costs about 900 euros to run the website.  The cost is probably higher after today.  I'll try to donate some money soon.  Bye
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