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The donation is verified. I seriously can't believe my eyes. That is VERY generous of you. When we originally set the goal for the gofundme we all had little to no expectation of actually getting that many donations. It's not a secret that HelioHost has lost money for like 4 years in a row. When we do our taxes in December I guess we'll know for sure, but I have a feeling this is going to be the first year in a long time that we've actually finished the year in the black. It's not easy running a non-profit, and over the years we've had to grow and adapt to the changing world to stay in business. Ashoat started this company back in March 2005, so in just four months we're going to be celebrating our 15th anniversary. What a great way to celebrate by launching the new Sparkie server, fully funding the gofundme, and actually not losing money for a whole year. I'm not going to lie, there have been many times where I've questioned if it was worth all the effort to keep HelioHost running. Dealing with customer support issues we mainly see the worst. People complaining and being unhappy about things and breaking our terms of service are generally the loudest, and get the most attention so it's easy to forget about all of the thousands of people that we help each and every day. It's just amazing to me to see the support from the community for this little project. Donations like this prove that it's not just me that wants to see this non-profit succeed, and it makes me want to carry on and continue improving HelioHost. Maybe someone reading this message is just like you Caleb, they may not be able to afford paid hosting right now, but after using our free service for a while they find themselves in a position financially to make a generous donation of their own. I also want to take this opportunity to thank Roy for his also very generous donation of $300. Between the two of you 31% of the goal was achieved. A big thanks goes out to all the small donors as well. Obviously the biggest donations get most of the attention, but the small donors are where the other 69% of our funding came from. If you're reading this and thinking that there's no way you could donate $550 yourself, just know that when we get hundreds of small $5 donations it all adds up eventually. Every dollar helps. I don't really know what to say other than, "Thank you!"

Haha thanks! What "spoils" are you referring to? Doesn't everyone get inactivity immunity and double storage for donating? Read the fundraiser again “ Whoever donates the largest amount will win a beast of a VPS for six months with 16 GB memory, 8 cpus, 300 GB hard drive space, unlimited bandwidth, a dedicated IPv4 address, and your choice of operating system. That's a $318 value!” You’re the chosen one!

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Woah dude! You are extremely generous! Because of you, sparkie has now been fully funded. Heck, it’s even way past the goal now! On behalf of the entire heliohost community, we would like to thank you for that! Enjoy your beast of a VPS!

Aha!! this time it came!! Thank you tons!!!