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I managed to setup a coinbase account this evening to accept donations in the form of cryptos if people want to donate that way. I'm working on getting a couple other methods as well but I'd like to get more of the glitches fixed first. I only did this tonight because it didn't require much brain power.

https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/3cfe3e34-f23a-482a-8723-d100b2b2cd1b

well pateron is pretty easy to setup too so I think you can donate with credit cards on a monthly basis thing through that.

www.patreon.com/poalco

I managed to setup a coinbase account this evening to accept donations in the form of cryptos if people want to donate that way. I'm working on getting a couple other methods as well but I'd like to get more of the glitches fixed first. I only did this tonight because it didn't require much brain power. https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/3cfe3e34-f23a-482a-8723-d100b2b2cd1b well pateron is pretty easy to setup too so I think you can donate with credit cards on a monthly basis thing through that. www.patreon.com/poalco

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It'd be great if we could know a little about what your current costs are. And what'll happen in the event that traffic increases.

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Well current cost are 50 per year for the domain, 40 per month for the VPS(If we want to ramp things up or do any real dev on the site kind of need to double this so major code changes can be made while not killing the main site). Also I got a free month from the hosting company because they fucked up the deployment of the vps and it took 18 hours before they actually rolled it out. So thats the cost. The only other thing I would ask you guys to consider as we grow is that I would like to be able to admin this place full time, I'm not sure if that will be possible or not but it would be my dream to spend my days fighting for free speech as a job. So if people think thats a good idea and want to fund it great. If not thats okay too.

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Is Poal run on a linux box? If not, you should try converting over. Otherwise scalability is going to cost you.

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Yes it is running on Linux.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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Also one bit I forgot. on the current plan we get 4tb of bandwidth per month. so if we got a huge spike in traffic I would have to increase that and the next step up is 8tb for 60, and 80 for 10tb, beyond that I'm not sure exactly how I would handle it I would either have to implement multiple servers or move to a different host.

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I gotta figure out how to do the crypto thingy and I'll donate but if you get some other options I'll definitely throw some cash your way a lot quicker

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I setup a hatreon account I think it'll work

https://hatreon.net/poalco/

I guess pledging is disbled at the moment.

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I for sure will probably not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon. Probably early next week I'll get some kind of monthly thing going and a donation system that takes regular credit cards.

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In the future, maybe we could have ads (site-wide & topical to sub), merchandise, and maybe even an ad-revenue sharing program.

Voat tried the latter very briefly in 2015 (iirc) but Amazon backed out and it never appeared again.

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I’d love to do something like that, I don’t know exactly how all this is going to pan out exactly yet but I’ll keep at it as long as I’m able too which should be about 40 years.

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Could you possibly also provide addresses. I'm not a fan of coinbase.

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The Hatreon link is saying something about not accepting since February 9th due to system upgrades.

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Yeah I saw that after I set it up. I'll keep looking for an alternative I guess.

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Changed it to patreon it probably won't last long but its a way to do it for now.