Portal Wiki:Donate

The Portal Wiki is currently hosted by Wind (Etienne Perot) on a virtual private server which costs quite a bit of money every month to keep running.

While there are no plans to discontinue hosting the Wiki in the foreseeable future, a donation still helps alleviate those monthly costs.

How can I donate?

You can make a donation using Flattr, Paypal, and Bitcoin.

Flattr donation Flattr is a "social microdonation" payment system. Instructions: Sign up for Flattr, if you haven't done so already. Add some funds to your Flattr account using one of their numerous payment methods. Click the Flattr button that appears at the bottom of the Portal Wiki's sidebar, or use the widget below.

Paypal Paypal donation Paypal is a popular online payment processor. You can donate to the Portal Wiki using the button below: {{#html:Paypal button}}

Bitcoin Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. If you have Bitcoins that you would like to donate: Make sure you have a valid and verified email address on your Portal Wiki account. Send an email to WindPower to get an address to donate to.

Details

• Where does my money go?

Your money goes entirely towards paying hosting costs.

• How much money does hosting cost every month?

The Portal Wiki is hosted on a Linode 768, which as of this writing costs $29.95 (convert to euros) per month. The Linode is paid for yearly, which gets a 10% discount, meaning that the actual cost is $26.96 per month (convert to euros).

• What happens if donations are higher than the monthly hosting cost?

The donations are not expected to fully cover hosting expenses. In the event that they do, the extra money will be saved and, at the time of the yearly hosting package renewal, be used to purchase a better Linode plan for the server if the extra money allows it.

• What do I get for donating?

A fuzzy, warm feeling, and our gratitude. It is not possible to offer benefits such as "no advertisements", because the Portal Wiki has no advertisements.

• Anything else?

Additionally, the Portal Wiki uses two domains (theportalwiki.com for content, and theportalwiki.net for cookie-less, cheaper-bandwidth CDN), each costing $10.69 per year, plus the Whois privacy feature for $2.88 per year each, totalling $27.14 (convert to euros) per year in domain registration fees.

The donation methods described on this page do not go towards those fees. If you would like to help with them, please contact Moussekateer.