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That's really sand news. I believe however just like dinosaur07 suggested that it's possible to organize some kind of crowd-funding (not sure how exactly it's called). How much does the domain and the hosting cost? For my webpage I'm using services offered on [/url][url=https://stacksocial.com]https://stacksocial.com. For example there's currently the so-called lifetime hosting plan offered from BoxHosting for only $45:
https://stacksocial.com/sales/box-hostin...bscription
While these services are not reliable and most likely they'll disappear in a few years (or event months) I find them quite useable for the price they ask. Well, there will be additional yearly costs for the domain of course. Another problem would be the migration to a new cheap and unreliable hosting, that will require some time and efforts. So I believe that's something to consider. I am personally ready to share some small amount of money and support the forum.

You can donate to Mike, you have on the right that donate button, i did it some time ago and with a decent sum of $20 i think it might help covering the costs. Mike has to tell how much does the hosting cost and what are all the annual costs in total.

I have had the donation button on the forum and blog for several years and it does no good. You were one of the very few that ever donated Dino and I thank you for that. I have also tried affiliate sales with some software products with no luck. The only thing most of the members care about is free licenses which I suspect many of these are also collected and sold on other websites. The billing is just over $100.00 a year but why should I take on this expense and have Tarek spend all his time doing reviews for everyone else to benefit and get rewarded. We have a great forum team and are always asking for help but theres only a few people that do. Those few can not do it all. We have asked members for help to be more active to increase our Alexa rank and page views which also has been going down. As for advertising I don't think it's possible to do on a forum. 


Mike 

I think we can make it for $100 Mike. If 10 members donate $10 we will do it. 
You can also enable ads in the forum, there are almost 10k members, you will earn some cash out of ads.
Let`s make a rule and don`t allow to participate in giveaways members that are not active in forum other than in giveaways and that don`t contribute to the forum in any way. It is so simple to do it but let`s face that promo2day is and was mainly a giveaway forum, this was/is its meaning, it states in the title also, promo today.