The annual payment day for our servers is coming, so we are starting our annual fundraiser.
By 15.01.2025, we must collect and pay for the servers the amount of 510 euros (approx. 2200 PLN) plus at least 4300 PLN for our monthly expenses, such as: internet, electricity, gas, water, fuel, as well as rent, medicines and life, which is becoming more and more expensive and difficult from month to month, as well as those not monthly, but still important, such as: domains, marketing, expenses related to improving the functionality of the websites and worn-out computers, small computer equipment (memory, pendrives, mice, batteries, etc.) or quickly filling up disks that serve us as databases.
All this shows that running websites is not as free as some may think.
Why servers?
Some time ago we informed you on social media that for security, efficiency and server stability reasons we decided to move our services to several separate machines – the costs of maintaining these servers will remain the same as before.
We are starting the fundraiser today to manage to pay for the servers on time, so that we can stay with you online for another year – we would really like that. This is our passion and work at the same time, to which we devote ourselves completely, so we believe that with your help we will succeed.
As every year, there will be 2 collection bars on the website.
One bar for monthly support, and the other for the collection for servers.
We repeat like a mantra that Linuxiarz, SparkyLinux, ArchiveOS, ArchiveApp, ArchiveGame or LinuxChannel are our only job and only source of income. The two of us support ourselves only from your monthly support and small revenues from advertising. We would not survive in Warsaw on advertising alone, so your support is very important to us. The constantly rising prices of products, especially gluten-free ones, necessary medicines and bills take up the most money, because computers work non-stop, especially when we create SparkyLinux iso, applications, etc., but you have proven more than once that you can be relied on because you are awesome 🙂
After the new year, the amount of the minimum wage for work increases, so from January 2025 we will collect at least PLN 4,666 every month.
We would like to thank all our supporters for their donations, which are an important and necessary addition to our modest advertising revenues – most of you still block our ads, preventing us from earning money on the websites that support us.
Donations can be made via the website:
https://sparkylinux.org/donate/
Stay healthy
Aneta and Paweł