WikiTribute:Site support
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Just by being here, you are supporting this site and I hope that my project will flourish and become a staple of the internet community, but it can only do so with your help.
If you are interested in doing more and helping our community grow, may I suggest:
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Donating Time
We're always looking for people to contribute features or content to the site and there are always people who wish to put up articles, but maybe need help making it look pretty. Volunteers are always welcome to help others out at any time- the discussion pages are a great place to decide on what needs to be done or to ask for help. If you would like be more deeply involved in the site, please contact Brett Trotter. This is by far the best way you can help. We need more visibility and more content as well as help completing the content that is already here.
Donating Money
In the immediate, your donations would go first towards domain name fees, and then banked towards a better server and/or more disk space, etc. I am not running this site to make money, generate ad hits, or anything of the sort, so any contributions would go 100% towards hardware and bandwidth costs. WikiTribute is not a registered organization, so your donation would not be tax-deductible. Right now, the best donation of money would be for someone to sponsor our domain renewals. (wikitribute.org/net/com, realsuperheroes.org, webtrotter.org/net/com)
This same machine runs a non-profit postcard trading site as well.
Donating Hardware
- If you would like to donate a better server, quad core is becoming a must due since this is not the only site I run. I'm running sun hardware because it was available to me, but I'd like to go quad athlon or opteron at some point.
- If you would like to donate extra components, the new 420R is maxed out except for bigger disks or more disks. Hard disks must be SCA2 LVD-SE and fit in the 1" height clearance- sun spuds (sleds) are also needed. I brought the damaged D1000 online successfully- and despite some retention clips being broken off, it has stayed online. It has two 36GB disks, and four 18gb disks at the moment for a total of 66GB redundant space.
At the moment, better hardware is mostly un-needed. For now, WikiTribute has basically zero overhead, except for domain names at the moment and the Enterprise 420R's speed is quite sufficient, but we still don't have much viewership or content. Although hardware or money would be gratefully accepted and banked for the right time, right now content, flow and word-of mouth are needed the most. Through favors, I've traded work for domain name payments around $120 just for this year and that's only a few of them- please consider helping with domain fees.
I have made a promise to keep this site ad-free, but I will be more than happy to add a logo to the WikiTribute:Sponsors page and let your company have a corporate page discussing your philanthropic endeavors.
The Future
For now, WikiTribute has a free home at my place of employment- should that change, it may become expensive to host the machine. If you run a data center and would like to offer space/bandwidth that is extremely unlikely to change in availability, it might offer longer term stability. More or less everything rides on my continued employment at my current job- and the future past 8 months right now is quite unknown due to the nature of our work.
