Indybay Needs You To Donate Now To Help Cover Increasing Operating Costs

If you find the coverage on Indybay to be a useful part of your socially conscious life, we ask that you make a small donation of just $5-10. Every little bit you can give will help us maintain this website and keep our media lab operating as a community resource. If you are a heavy user and visit the site daily or even weekly, please consider a medium-sized donation of $20-40. If you regularly publish to the newswire, especially posting larger media files, you can help us continue to be a great open-publishing resource and remain on solid footing into the future by making a more sizable donation of your choice.

Please, DONATE whatever you can afford. We need money now to pay rent on our space in the Mission District, to cover expenses such as our telephone/DSL and web hosting bills, and for promotional materials as we continue to expand our coverage throughout Northern California. Late last year, we partnered with Santa Cruz IMC whose site is now hosted on Indybay's server and there is a big push coming for increased coverage in the Sacramento/Central Valley area.

Our site's popularity has continued to grow and that adds to our expenses. In the last six months, for example, Indybay has consistently served over 100,000 page views on most days, reaching almost as high as 150,000 page views on big news days. This has put a strain on our older web server, forcing us to buy an entirely new webserver in the last few weeks. We also anticipate our web hosting bills to dramatically increase soon as site visitors are currently uploading and downloading thousands of gigabytes of news reports, photos, audio, and video every month.

Recently, Indybay volunteers have pulled from our own pockets to cover expenses and to buy the brand new web server that will be installed in the next month or so but this is not sustainable.

We have not made a major request for donations in over a year but now we must ask that fans of this site contribute what they can to keep us going. We are a 100% volunteer organization and all donations go directly toward operating costs.