As we mention on the page Support this Site, your donations are going to the expense of running this site and its forums. The goal of this post is to describe what we’ll be doing with your money.

Right now, basic web hosting for this site is around $120 a year. That’s pretty cheap. But for IA to grow and be able to financially support Stan and myself, it will take a lot of traffic. By traffic I mean the number of visitors to the site on a daily basis. For a website to sustain lots of web traffic, it requires high quality dedicated web server hardware and lots of bandwidth. (I’d be happy to elaborate the techie details. Please contact me if you like to hear more of my geek speak.)

My goal is to raise enough money for one year of high quality dedicated web server hosting. One estimate of this cost is $500 a month. That comes to $6000 a year.

I think saving for a year in advance is better than going month to month, especially for the first year. Lots of people suggest that ventures like ours can take two years to begin breaking even. If we can raise enough money for our webhosting in advance we won’t have to take the money from our meager living resources. As of right now, I’ve donated 85 hours of my time, the cost of domain name registration, and web hosting costs. I don’t expect to recoup all of my donated time.

If you would like to donate towards the cause of saving for this resource, then subscribe to Insurgent American by using the PayPal link on the right side bar or by mailing a check or money order to Brian Russell, P.O. Box 1721, Carrboro, NC, 27510.

Another way you could donate towards our Tech resources is by giving us dedicated web hosting. If you run a serious web host with 24-7 collocation/managed hosting facilities, please contact me.

Please know that I’m working very hard on this site because I believe in Stan Goff, his ideas, and that we can change the world for the better. I want to see this site succeed so it can help creative people live modestly doing what they love, not amass great quantities of wealth.

The Internet has given us a resource to remove all the middle men. If we build our own place we can work directly with others and support ourselves fairly.

Thank you for your support and trust,
-BrianR

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