The site is hosted by Linode and costs $864 yearly.
Update Sep 2022:
– The Paypal account is linked to Linode
– The counter is being constantly updated (it will go up&down according to the donations and payments)
– The counter goal is set to $864
– Related forum thread: Donations and hosting payments
Update Apr 2021:
– backups are allowed for 160GB
the new goals are
– minimum 320GB storage + backup ($1150)
– plan upgrade + backup ($1500 – shown below)
Thanks much again to those who already donated!
$130
You can also support the site at no cost to you by using these links shopping:
If you find the site interesting and, hopefully, useful, I would greatly appreciate if you could consider making a donation to keep it running. Our goal is $1500 (annually). Thank you for your help!
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Likera, why don’t you use hazenet?
Like 8 bucks a month for a quad core 1gb ram.
I’ve read very bad reviews about HazeNET. Arvixe (I’m currently using) scored one of the best (if not the best). They offer excellent support, response time and uptime. The prices are quite high, though.
But that does not mean that I’ve stopped looking around 😉
Paid $50 ($20 from the pool + $30 refund) for the next 30 days.
-$47 for March.
My own, small, contribution on its way!
MJ
Got it! Updated! Thanks much MadJack!
Donated 25€ two days ago, thanks for running this site!
Thank you guys again for your support!
Here’s an idea, have users donate spare processing power while visiting your site to generate bitcoins for you! Use http://bitjam.org/ and probably just make a wallet at http://www.mybitcoin.com. You should probably look up bitcoins first and figure out how they work…
Sure, will have a look. But do you know if it’s considered as a spy or a malware by search engines, web-proxies and antivirus software? Do not want to be blocked by half of the Internet. Took me years to shake off one ad-campaign residuals…
I have it on my site and it’s clean… You might want to put an announcement if you do use it, so then people can “donate” by just leaving their computers on the web page… Some people do that for us, they just leave it on during work or at night.
Alright, better idea… http://kradminer.com/
To have it automatically put your address in, use this link http://kradminer.com/?mine_for=13buRFcMxDtxFZHeEAFJ6K92aXoagxrBVP (of course replacing that one with yours).
Maybe you could put up Flattr.com-buttons on the website too? I could sure click a dollar or two if needed. 🙂
I’ve read about Flattr and was not impressed, to be honest. But I can try it, sure. Thanks for the suggestion!
Added the Flattr button.
Hey I don’t know if this will help but its related to moneyz.
Maybe you can give self-bondage advice for 5 bucks each.
I know fiverr.com doesn’t allow adult but this is just an idea. My 2 cents.
Here is a short article similar to my idea.
http://marketerswap.com/forum/showthread.php/464-Fiverr-and-Using-Other-Sites-Like-it-to-Earn-Coin?p=1076#post1076
“Cal ” wrote:
This contradicts the idea behind the site.
BTW, the content is not showing up in Firefox.
I’m always surprised by the resource requirements of this blog. I have 50,000-daily-active-user sites doing much more resource intensive work that use less. I have old phpBB forums with more posts and members than this one sharing resources with a dozen other sites on a 6 year old server. Perhaps if you switched from what’s probably Apache and mod_php to nginx and php-fpm…
At least I’m glad you moved to Linode. They’re a good choice for VPS. I use them for development and staging servers.
“Dan ” wrote:
The problem is the disk which is shared by all VPSes. If the disk is abused by, for example, a backup, system installation or extensive swapping, all related VPSes suffer.
See also this thread: /forum/mybb/showthread.php?tid=530
Disk IO should never be a bottleneck for a small blog or forum… it’s not like you’re uploading gigabytes of new files every minute. Most requests should be served straight from memory with the MySQL query cache, OS disk cache, and PHP opcode cache (APC) keeping what’s needed there automatically.
“Dan ” wrote:
Sure, if it’s a standalone system. The site can survive a much higher load, if the disk load is normal. And at Arvixe the disk load was 100% even when the web-server was stopped. The whole story is in that forum thread (see above).
“Dan ” wrote:
95% of the site is dynamic. With quite a few write operations (view counters, for example). Some side widgets are fully cached, some (e.g. 4 random images) are not.
“Dan ” wrote:
Yes, true. The DB is not that big (130 tables, 65MB for this site). But caching takes memory, right?
“Dan ” wrote:
Yes, but cache takes memory.
“Dan ” wrote:
It’s set up to 64MB. The hit rate is quite high, but spiders and rippers kill the caches.
The available memory is only 1GB. If the disk is busy, apache processes accumulate in memory, what leads to swapping, swapping adds to the disk load, etc. I have a script which kills apache should the load reach a certain level. This is the only way to stop the “dead-lock”.
I think 2GB RAM would solve the problem (not completely though, because of some rippers), but it takes money 😉
That’s indicative of a misconfigured Apache. You should lower the MaxClients/MinSpareServers/MaxSpareServers/ServerLimit and KeepAliveTimeout directives. The solution is to not launch more Apache processes than you have memory for; not rely on disk swap to let you get away with it until there’s some load.
Spiders/rippers shouldn’t be pushing anything out of an opcode cache. I doubt there’s 64MB in PHP code between the blog and the forum, so it should all be cached and your hit rate will be 100% (after the first few minutes).
http://iron.awio.com/apc.php
“Dan ” wrote:
It is already 40.
KeepAliveTimeout 3
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 3
“Dan ” wrote:
It also caches generated code for posts, etc (user cache). So, it’s bigger than 64MB.
BTW, I need to upgrade APC. It’s a bit out of date.
Actually, since I moved to Linode, I can’t complain. There were outages because of overload, but they are quite rare (in comparison to Arvixe).
1 day, 6 hours and 12 minutes
File Cache Information
Cached Files 429 ( 51.4 MBytes)
Hits 10943154
Misses 1013789
Request Rate (hits, misses) 109.92 cache requests/second
Hit Rate 100.60 cache requests/second
Miss Rate 9.32 cache requests/second
Insert Rate 8.08 cache requests/second
Cache full count 3329
User Cache Information
Cached Variables 4125 ( 8.1 MBytes)
Hits 1002465
Misses 680851
Request Rate (hits, misses) 15.47 cache requests/second
Hit Rate 9.22 cache requests/second
Miss Rate 6.26 cache requests/second
Insert Rate 12.43 cache requests/second
Cache full count 1166
All the techie stuff possted here has certainly put me off ever setting up any website of any sort. I have neither the time nor inclinatiion to learn what Apache, mod_php, nginx, vps or php-fpm are let alone how to deal with spiders and rippers.
“Culmor ” wrote:
This is actually a part of the fun. You can learn as much (and as deep) as you want. For example, nothing and simply ignore all issues. Just order a bigger server. Or simply use a free platform. like blogger or livejournal.
On the other hand, you are right. It takes sooo much time with almost no end result, so you just want it to work with no extra dances and whistles.
In this month i dont give you money because i dont found here no interesting posts (just say’n)
Have you checked the forum? 😉
A little donation on its way for the fund
Keep on posting!
MJ
Thanks much! Added to the graph! 😉
Take a look at serverpronto.com, they have dedicated servers for like $40 a month with like 2gb ram. Also have you taken a look at cloudflare? It should bring the requests down ALOT!
“Brett diedrich ” wrote:
Pronto Dedicated 50$ 2GB 1x 3.2GHz AMD Athlon (2 cores) 1x 500GB 5TB traffic
Linode VPS 40$ 2GB 2x 2GHz Intel Xeon E5-2630L (8 cores) 48GB 4TB traffic
Mmm.. not sure…
BTW, the reviews are not good.
poorwhitetrash just snt $20.00 VIA PayPal
email on Ebay different from Sign in here.
Thanks much!