Future funding for Dyxum

Dyxum was unavailable for a good bit of Sunday 8 October.

Our apologies for this, we hadn't realised that the money brought in by advertising was no longer sufficient to cover our server costs and were taken by surprise a bit more than we really should have been (our apologies for not keeping our eyes fully on the ball). Luckily, we did have sufficient monies from donations by members in previous years (along with a small contribution from the administrators) to pay the hosting fees for the next year.

We can therefore confirm that Dyxum should still be around for its 19th birthday in July 2024

Please note that, because advertising is no longer covering our server costs, we will be more reliant on member contributions in the future.

Details of how to donate can be found on the About Dyxum Page.

We would like to stress that all monies donated by members only go on genuine expenses such as the hosting fees and associated registrations.

We will also be looking to see if there are cheaper ways we can host Dyxum in future and would welcome input and ideas from the membership.

Our thanks to you all for bearing with us, and for making Dyxum the valuable resource it is.

I guess there may be other one-offs, but the main stuff we had to cover the other week were hosting costs and licence fees for software. I'd expect all-in expenses for a typical year to be somewhere south of 2 grand.
Many years back we moved to a decicated server because traffic was high, we will be getting advice on whether there are reasonable savings to be made by going back to the shared server hosting that we had for Dyxum's early years.

Just tried PayPal, it seems to be insisting I pay in USD, is this correct? I pay my other contacts in GBP.

Many thanks to all those responding to this - I'm tending to contact back to acknowledge through paypal rather than our PM system as paypal doesn't show email addresses any longer, which is how I always used to match payments coming in to individual members.

I tried to send money to "bob.j.dyxum@googlemail.com" for "friends and family" and PayPal is charging $4.99 for the service.
I don't remember having to pay a fee for this kind of transfer before.
Anyone else see this? Is it because it's an international transfer?

skm.sa100 wrote: I tried to send money to "bob.j.dyxum@googlemail.com" for "friends and family" and PayPal is charging $4.99 for the service. I don't remember having to pay a fee for this kind of transfer before. Anyone else see this? Is it because it's an international transfer?

I also had to pay the fee

Is there a recommended amount, say per member per month?
Typically about 95% to 99% of people will forego a service rather than pay for it.
That's how most online websites work, anyway.
It'll be interesting to see how many people would be willing to pay so a number can be reached at. Maybe host a poll to gauge interest?