Dear Friends!
It’s time for our annual fundraiser for our servers.
So let’s get started!
By January 15, 2026, we need to raise and pay for the servers €510 plus a minimum of €1100 for our monthly payments: domains, internet, electricity, gas, water, fuel, rent, medications, and life, which is getting more expensive and difficult each month. We also have non-monthly but equally important expenses like marketing services, expenses related to improving website functionality, worn-out computers, small computer hardware (memory, flash drives, mice, batteries, etc.), and the quickly filling drives we use for databases.
All of this shows that running a website isn’t as free as some people think.
We’re starting a fundraiser today to pay for the servers on time so we can stay online with you for another year – we’d love that. This is both our passion and our work, to which we are completely dedicated, so we believe that with your help, we will succeed.
As every year, two fundraising banners will appear on the website.
One banner is for monthly support, the other for the server fundraiser.
We repeat like a mantra that Linuxiarz, SparkyLinux, ArchiveOS, ArchiveApp, ArchiveGame, LinuxChannel, and RSSChannel are our only job and only source of income. Between the two of us, we survive solely on your monthly support and a small amount of advertising revenue. We couldn’t survive in Warsaw on advertising alone, so your support is crucial to us. The constantly rising prices of products, especially gluten-free ones, essential medications, and bills are the biggest drain on our money because computers are constantly running, especially when we’re creating SparkyLinux ISOs, applications, etc. But you’ve proven time and again that you’re reliable because you’re amazing 🙂
After the New Year, the minimum wage increases, so starting in January 2026, we’ll be collecting a minimum of €1140 every month.
We wholeheartedly thank all our supporters for their donations, which are a vital and necessary supplement to our modest advertising revenue. Most of you still block our ads, preventing us from monetizing the websites that support us.
For several days now, we’ve been battling server overloads; pages are loading very slowly or not at all, which also hinders our monetization.
Please open your hearts and wallets.
Donations can be made via the website:
https://sparkylinux.org/donate/
Stay healthy.
Aneta and Paweł
