Quote from: iMav on Tue, 07 July 2015, 11:04:43 Dedicated server costs are as follows:



$240/mo for server

$50/mo for backups



Believe me...we can NOT run on someone's home internet service. That would be a nightmare.



We also incur around $150 monthly for our AWS infrastructure...which provides support functions, such as email (including anti-spam, anti-virus), some administrative connectivity, etc.



It would definitely be helpful if folks would consider a monthly subscription. We will definitely come up with a cool way to identify those who contribute in this way to the community...



I very much dislike ads. GH has never been about making money. We will have some profile "flair" to recognize those that support the site. I will also, on occasion, reach out to supporters with some sort of thank you (gift, perhaps...depending on the current financial status).



All information has been gleaned from the posts made by iMav in the Geekhack Facebook group . Any misunderstandings are mine of course. I'm not iMav and I'm not the best source of information. I'm just trying to bring awareness.As we all know, last week, Geekhack went down. When iMav was ready for the datacenter to plug us back in, they declined to. iMav then moved us to a different datacenter. Previously, we were fortunate enough to not have to pay for the colo or datacenter services. But now that we've migrated to a new datacenter, we no longer enjoy free services. iMav needs to pay for it.We should all consider donating money to iMav so we can directly pay for the server costs and keep Geekhack running. All server donations can go through the menu bar "Donate" tab.I believe fohat.digs has a t-shirt fund raiser thread . I'm considering running another t-shirt buy myself. I'll have a sale as well coming shortly.This thread is to discuss how we can best support Geekhack and keep it going. And for iMav and anyone who has more information than me to answer questions.Again, donations to help keep the server running should be sent through the donate tab on the menu bar.