Hosting fees: You can help.




December 9, 2019 Update:

I paid a $422 invoice for the forum software this morning.

We had $231.45 left in our account from last year.

That means we were only $190.55 short.

I’m accepting donations to help defray the cost. As always:

  1. Only what you can afford
  2. No guarantee that the service will continue in perpetuity
  3. Will have no (conscious) effect on forum post moderation 🙂

In the past year I have made changes that have greatly reduced the cost of the main server, so I am picking that cost up. (The recent outage shows that we get what we pay for!)


December 9, 2018 Update:

I recently paid a $422 invoice for the forum software.

I’m accepting donations to help defray the cost. As always:

  1. Only what you can afford
  2. No guarantee that the service will continue in perpetuity
  3. Will have no (conscious) effect on forum post moderation 🙂

From June 2017:

I knew I had to make some expensive changes last year when the forum software we were using became hopelessly out of date.

I didn’t ask for donations, though, because I wasn’t certain I could make the changes successfully, or that they would be embraced.

Now that we’ve made them, I’d like to see if contributors can help defray the cost.

The two-year expenses are $2,873.68 — just for hosting costs. All the work is a labor of love!

If you’d like to help, please donate through PayPal using the button above. As always, these donations are

  1. Only what you can afford
  2. No guarantee that the service will continue in perpetuity
  3. Will have no (conscious) effect on forum post moderation 🙂