If you use these forums, I'm sure you're familiar with the importance of catbox.moe as an independent, 3rd party content host. They've allowed our content to be hosted when very few other services have, and I believe they are worthy of our support. Throw a few bucks their way if you can.
They do not appear to be greasy bastards - they do not often ask for help.
WWG1WGA
FTA:
tl;dr - Catbox needs additional funding. Keep reading.
This post is going to have a more somber attitude than posts in the past, and it’s not one I’ve ever really wanted to make, but as Catbox has expanded, so has its costs. The operational costs for running Catbox per month for the last year have looked like this:
edit: Typo in title - embarassing!
If you use these forums, I'm sure you're familiar with the importance of catbox.moe as an independent, 3rd party content host. They've allowed our content to be hosted when very few other services have, and I believe they are worthy of our support. Throw a few bucks their way if you can.
They do not appear to be greasy bastards - they do not often ask for help.
WWG1WGA
FTA:
tl;dr - Catbox needs additional funding. Keep reading. This post is going to have a more somber attitude than posts in the past, and it’s not one I’ve ever really wanted to make, but as Catbox has expanded, so has its costs. The operational costs for running Catbox per month for the last year have looked like this:
Datacenter Colocation: $971/month Offsite Storage: $140/month Cloud Server Providers: $40/month Administrative Costs: $60/month
I'm donating.
It's worth supporting