Help Keep Netphoria Going Through 2022-2024

Hey guys, this is Andrew Pakula and I am looking for some help to keep the Netphoria Message Board Forums continue running through 2022-2024. I am asking for some donations solely to pay for the web hosting costs for the next 2 years.

Many are probably wondering why am I keeping this going?

Netphoria is sort of a relic of message board culture, something that has faded away from the internet with the prominence social media, reddit, discord, etc. It is something I created and when I was much younger and always liked and been proud of the community that it became, I am happy to see there is still some of us on here and I’d like to still preserve the site.

For a long time it did not cost me extra to keep Netphoria running, I had my own dedicated server which I used for freelance purposes so having an extra site on it did not matter. However once I gave up freelance work several years ago I have basically been out of pocket for Netphoria’s web hosting costs ever since.

Web Hosting Full Disclosure

Previous hosting was with IBM Cloud and costing me approx. $130/month, without my freelance work subsidizing the cost this was obviously unsustainable.

The New hosting as of this year is with Namecheap and utilizes a VPS server for $38/month which is much more reasonable and so far appears to perform just as great.

The exact cost

So that translates to $930.24 (USD) for 24 months, plus approx. $27 for the Gofundme fee, we get a total of $957 (USD) or $1200 (in my Canadian dollars) I’d like to aim for.

I should also mention there is no other revenue streams available for Netphoria, at one time Advertising could be utilized to generate something but due to Netphoria’s uncensored nature the site is basically blackballed on Google Ads.

So I leave it up to all of you guys, if you wish to donate it would be greatly appreciated, Netphoria will continue to live on, if not then that’s ok too, I am sure some like Monte would be happy to see it go away.