HelioHost Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 Username: putz, Server: Tommy, Main domain: putz.heliohost.usHi Folks, I just donated a little amount to help you guys with the new server *via PayPal* (as I don't have a US bank account nor Amazon Pay nor the willingness to share my credit card details with donorbox.org). Hope the successor of Stevie can be born soon! Keep up the good work, greetings from the Netherlands, Best, Erik (erik.putz, account putz) Op za 25 jan 2025 om 21:14 schreef HelioHost : > [image: HelioHost | Community powered free hosting for everyone.] > > Hey Erik.putz, > > HelioHost is raising funds to purchase a new server! > > In 2005, Ashoat, who was 14 years old at the time, came up with the > ridiculous idea of giving away web hosting for free. He purchased the > domain heliohost.org and a reseller plan, but it wasn't too long before > there were so many people wanting to host their website for free on > HelioHost that Ashoat had to buy a server to support them all. He named > that first server Stevie. HelioHost now has several more servers, but > Stevie is special because he was the first. We used that server as long as > we could, but it eventually became too old to do anything useful anymore, > so we unplugged it. We are going to hand poor old Stevie over to the > recyclers soon, but that doesn't have to be the end for him... > > 2025 is HelioHost's 20-year anniversary, and what better way to celebrate > this milestone than by reflecting on where we came from, and taking the > next step towards where we are going. We can keep the spirit of Stevie > alive to carry on his purpose even after his metal, copper, and silicon > have all been melted down, by raising funds for a new server and naming it > Stevie. > > Summary of thank you gifts (see fundraiser for details): > > * $5 = +1000 MB on existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account. > * $10 = +2000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account. > * $15 = +3000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account. > * $20 = +4000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account. > * $25 = +5000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account. > * $30 = +6000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account. > * $35 = Early beta access to new Java and JSP hosting server before it is > publicly available. > * $40 = +1000 MB on existing Morty, Tommy, or Johnny account, plus early > beta access to new Java server. > * $45 = +2000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. > * $50 = +3000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. > * $55 = +4000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. > * $60 = +5000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. > * $65+ = +6000 MB (to a max of 7000 MB) on an existing Morty, Tommy, or > Johnny account, plus early beta access to new Java server. > > Please don't let Stevie be forgotten. It will only take you a minute to > give us a gift to help us achieve this goal. The money you donate is > tax-deductible, and any amount big or small helps get us a step closer. > Thank you so much! > Fundraiser Details > [image: Twitter] [image: Facebook] > [image: Phone Number] > <+1-802-884-3546> [image: Support Forum] [image: > Email] > ? 2005-2025 Helio Networks. All rights reserved. | Unsubscribe > >
Krydos Posted January 26, 2025 Posted January 26, 2025 I have increased your storage space to 3000 MB. Thanks for the donation! However you feel most comfortable donating is fine with us, as long as the money makes it to us. We've always used GoFundMe for our past fundraisers which is definitely a more well-known name, and people probably trust them more than some unknown DonorBox. The problem is we always love to give thank you gifts in exchange for donations. We find people are far more likely to donate to a fundraiser if they get something in exchange, such as a storage space increase, or early access to a new server. GoFundMe suspended our last fundraiser because we said we would give extra storage space or Morty access to donors. We had already raised about $1800 when they suspended it and were threatening to return the money to all of our donors and ban us. It was very scary to think that all the hard work we had done raising the money would have been wasted. We removed all mentions of thank you gifts from our fundraiser, and appealed the decision and they were nice enough to allow us to keep the money, but it was still a very bad situation. We vowed to never use GoFundMe again because of their "No thank you gifts" policy. We contacted DonorBox prior to setting up this fundraiser to make absolutely sure that thank you gifts were allowed. Now that we've gone through the whole process we're really happy with DonorBox because it is so much better than GoFundMe in every way. DonorBox never actually has any of your credit card info other than the last 4 digits, and neither do we. We created a Stripe account to do the card processing for us. Stripe is a pretty well known and trustworthy company even if you've never heard of DonorBox. Anyways, thanks again for the donation!
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