Portal Wiki:Donate
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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 donationFlattr is a "social microdonation" payment system. Instructions:
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Paypal Paypal donationPaypal is a popular online payment processor. You can donate to the Portal Wiki using the button below: {{#html:Paypal button}}
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BitcoinBitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. If you have Bitcoins that you would like to donate:
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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).
- Note that the Linode does more than hosting the Portal Wiki. As such, it would be unfair to say that the Portal Wiki alone costs this amount of money to run. Here is some (admittedly rough, so that they don't have to be continuously updated) relative figures on how much the Portal Wiki uses:
- 30% of the allocated storage space
- 60% of the outgoing bandwidth used by the Linode per month on average (incoming bandwidth is free)
- 40% of the maximum allocated memory usage (this includes nginx, php-fpm, mysqld, WindBOT, crushfs, and RCNotify.py)
- 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.
Donation history
If you don't want your donation to be public, please email WindPower saying so prior to making your donation.
Month | Donations | Total |
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May 2012 |
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$5.6 |