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Can you please list the services (and software?) you're paying for, and their associated costs?

For example:
• Domain registration - $15/year
• Web hosting - $20/month
• etc.

Woodmann

Please give us (PM, if you wish) a breakup of your costs per month. If you feel that's too intrusive, you can give us a ballpark figure for the year. This will help people in understanding the kind of donation they can afford. People love to see a target which their donation can help reach. It will help towards a better contribution.

I, and many others here surely, are not going to let Woodmann go down.

Have Phun

It costs $80.00 per month for the server (which is legacy now)
I am hoping it will keep on keeping on. We have been babying it for a while now.

The reg fees are insignificant per year. (maybe $15.00)

If you need more details just let me know.

Thanks, Woodmann

can I hande this request across all the arteam communication channels? I think a lot of people will participate..

Shub,

I started to spread the word myself, as soon as we're not spamming everyone like "give money ffs, bitchez ain't for free" i agree we should get some cool support from the RE community.

Ah ops I already prepared a custom ramsonware for this -haha-

I just logged on to it to see if its the same as it has been a few years ago and it is,
man that thing is old

how about when funds are collected doing a backup and complete reset up and upgrade,
you can even use my reverse-engineering.info domain to create an additional front end
for links to sites, resources etc.

Just a thought... on the other hand you might not have an interest in doing that since
its a lot of work and you have other things to do/worry about.

all the best!
/ 'ol yates :-]

[yAtEs] is back (alive) to save us \o/

Thank you all.

You have wonderful ideas and none of them will be discarded.

Without giving out too many details, yATEs and some others
who mod here will tell you that an upgrade is definitely need.

Right now I need to arrange for our host to be paid and then I will talk to
the other mods about an upgrade.
Yes, it is a complete pain in the ass to do but it WILL need to be done at some time.

Thanks everyone, Woodmann

he's always been here, just silently lurking... stealthy [yAtEs]

Per http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/2gqudi/woodmanncom_needs_your_help_with_hosting_costs/cklrgzm, thoughts on accepting donations via Bitcoin?

I have opened an account at coinbase.
I am learning this process so be patient with me.

Woodmann

In case someone missed it, Bitcoin donations are online now.

How are the donations stacking up? A kickstarter goal format would be a nice draw and show engagement from the community. Just a thought.

Is there a monetary goal that can be shared? Other then the $80 a month noted above.

Has the crisis been averted due to a landslide of help, or are the waters still murky for the future? i.e. What are the plans for a way forward other then a update to the system the forums are running on of course.

As of this moment we are stable with this shitty server we are on.
It is back to asking for a reboot daily again.
We have been dealing with this problem for quite some time so,
while it is an inconvenience, it is not impossible to deal with.
The only problem being the down time until someone tells me the server is down.

I am waiting on a price to upgrade but for the time being donations are not desperate.

Im sure something like that could be cobbled together..Again just a thought.

Good to hear it isn't do or die at the moment. If there is a gap in the upgrade costs please let us know so we can do something to help.