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posted by chromas on Wednesday June 06 2018, @02:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the community++ dept.

[Update #2: Wed 20180606 @ 14:30 UTC: WOW! Since this story first posted, we have received 36 subscriptions totaling approximately $1126.27 which brings us to a total of approximately $2716.36 which works out to just over 90% of our $3000.00 goal!! I am extremely impressed with the showing of support from the community and reminds me why I volunteer so much of my time here. It really is the community! THANK YOU! --martyb]

[Update #1: Mon 20180604 @ 14:14 UTC: So far today we have received 16 subscriptions bringing us to just shy of $2000.00 raised for the period and just over $1000 to go. THANK-YOU! --martyb]

tl;dr: SoylentNews needs your financial support... $1400 by June 30th. Please Subscribe.

We have raised approximately $1590.09 towards our funding goal of $3000.00 which covers the period from 2018-01-01 though 2018-06-30.

We run the site with a team of volunteers — absolutely nobody gets paid for their work on this site... all the funds raised go directly into keeping the site up and running.

From the time we went live on February 17, 2014 through today, we have posted over 22,000 stories and nearly 120 polls. In kind, the community has posted over 3270 journal articles and over 688,000 comments.

We understand that not everyone can afford to support the site financially. Those who make contributions "in kind" through submitting stories or comments, making moderations, and the like... please accept my sincere "Thank-You!" Without your contributions, there would either be no site or no reason to come here.

For those of you who have previously subscribed, thank YOU for "keeping the lights on". Good wishes did not pay for servers, federal and state tax returns, or domain registrations... You did! Thank you!

A complicating factor came from our having a problem with the subscription page about a month ago... but TMB put up a fix and we've seen no regressions, since. Perhaps this bit you and you meant to "try again later"? (As of my writing this, we have 123 users who have accessed the site within the past month, who had previously subscribed, but whose subscription is now lapsed.)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:20PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @02:20PM (#688366)

    I've never noticed SN to be laggy - can we reduce the number of servers, which seem to be the main expense?

    Once they reduce the resources we will see lags. If there's one thing I can say about SN, it's that they are not spendthrifts. Reliability and redundancy cost money.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday June 04 2018, @06:29PM (2 children)

    You probably wouldn't unless we also took the servers we were left with down to lower spec versions. You would see downtime when we have to reboot servers for whatever reason though.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:19AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:19AM (#689214)
      How long does it take to reboot the servers? If it doesn't take a long time (e.g. a few minutes) perhaps you don't need that much availability.

      Not like people lose significant amounts of money during that downtime. In fact the productivity of the regulars might increase ;).

      Just have enough backups of the data and servers.
      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:46PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday June 06 2018, @06:46PM (#689473) Homepage Journal

        Not long. It's not reboots we're concerned with as much as one getting hosed and having to be rebuilt from backups. Redundancy helps there. We are looking at another round of downsizing our VMs though since Linode keeps giving us free upgrades.

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