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PostPosted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:53 pm 
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Please donate, we pay our server bills 9th of every month. So far, we have $60 paid... Please continue donating ^__^



How do you like them forums?

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

This website project, was officially 'restarted' on Janurary 10th, 2008. (It was actually started back in August/September 2007 but we had management and time issues.)

Over the past months, the site has grown tremendously! Since the relaunch, our Alexa ranking has gone up by over 3500% and our overall ranking went up from 6,000,000 to 146,519! (The less the better)

Other similar 'forums' have ads around their website. Ever clicked an ad and have spyware or adware install itself on your PC? How about crashing your Internet Explorer/Firefox window? Wasn't it... annoying?

Well, if you haven't noticed already, this site has minimum ads. As a website user, I hate ads, and I hate it even more when they're over cluttered or crash my browser full of tabs... This is why we have made them out of the way at the bottom of the page. These ads are text ads by the reputable company Google. They do not install anything onto your web browser and do not make noises when you roll over them. These ads are here for a trial, to see if they are efficient enough to support the website.

Well, to run a website you need a web host, and getting a web host costs money. Where does the money come from? At the moment, my own back pocket. That means I'm missing the occasional lunch and saving up that money to pay for the bills. Sad huh? :cry: (Actually it's not that dramatic, but you get the point)

So, if you like this website for your daily/weekly downloads of Asian content, please help us continue providing a place to share media by donating!

What does your donation go towards?
    Webhosting, we are on a VPS not on a shared server
    Premium accounts so files do not expire
    Direct downloads (ftechz is working on a neat little thing as we speak ;)
    Incentive to bring more uploads!

What does your donation NOT go towards?
    My lunch
    My dinner
    ftechz collection of Gundam figures
    My car fund

    And I'm serious...

How much/long does it take to maintain the website? *NEW*
    $60 per month for webhosting
    Depending on how this site runs, we might add the DDL system sooner than expected, which is another $25-30
    Time people take when uploading - hours
    Millions of hours invested by ftechz on the website code

Well, I bet you're itching to donate by now huh? Well, we currently offer the following payment options (sadly only by Paypal at the moment)

USD Currency:

Donate fixed amount of $10 (USD) (one off) (click to donate)


Donate any amount you choose (USD) (one off) (click to donate)


Donate $10 (USD) every month (monthly) (click to donate)


Euro Currency:

Donate fixed amount of €6.5 (Euro) (one off) (click to donate)


Donate any amount you choose (Euro) (one off) (click to donate)


Once you donate, if you would like Donators rank on the forums, please PM your transaction ID to me (windstar!~) and I will add you to the Donators group (minimum of $10 (USD) needed or €6.50 (Euro))

By getting VIP what would you get?
    1st priority to get your requests filled
    Donators rank on the forums
    Direct links to all files uploaded on the forums - MSN conversion service
    Cool offers such as free software offers, torrent invites and premium file hosting accounts such as Rapidshare!
    And more...!

So, please help us, help you get more content!

Look foward to your donation!

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Last edited by windstar!~ on Sat Nov 01, 2008 10:48 am, edited 5 times in total.
Updated - Needs a rewrite though, which I'm working on


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Re: Love Japanimusic.net? Have a few bucks lying around? Donate!
PostPosted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 3:06 am 
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I AM NOT A STAFF MEMBER!

i know windstar well enough to know it will go to the forum or forum related expenses so giving to him wont be silly and pointless like giving it to some other people

-looks at the 700 or so usd in the cornor-
cant spare anything man ~_~
i got my own expenses
  • house
  • gas ><
  • Acen
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  • my forum

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Haha thanks for the comment mate, I appreciate it :D

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Haha thanks for the comment mate, I appreciate it :D

i do what i can

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Hi! I think you are right! We need to give some money. Actually, I haven't got a lot of money... (as a student and living on my own, money is hard to find), but I will give some money when I have an extra 10 dollars :)

And if you think about it... how many full cds did you download on this website??? As for me, I downloaded A LOT.... What does a jpop cd costs when you live in Canada...? About 30$ per CD... so if you think about it that way, giving 10$ is not much compared to the money you saved!!! :)


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Haha thanks! That's the spirit ;)

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hey there! i would love to donate, but like everything i donate to, i want to know exactly how much stuff costs. what is the annual rate you're paying for webhosting? what are the exact dollar figures you're paying related to the site?

as for downloading music...i've only downloaded ONE thing so far, but i love the concept behind this (and after moving back from japan last year, i'm glad i have a place to find new music).

so...yeah. i need a full disclosure before i can donate, regardless of who i'm giving my money to.

thanks, and good luck!
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fortunately victorinpox is a huge asshole so i edited this post

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Mist wrote:
fortunately when i did a whois i found out his hosting company(not accurate) he/she hosted with namecheap.com

he bought a domain with .net which cost $9.25 and saying he bought pro hosting 1 year costing 65.95

which means he needs to pay $75.20 a year. + saying in US curreny

in which 1 New Zealand dollar equals 0.785 U.S. Dollars

$75.20 US dollars cost roughly about 100 New Zealand dollars( maybe around 95? New Zealand dollar?)

course whois may be inaccurate and i think wind lives in New Zealand
and who the fcuk care?

wow what a waste of time to read lets look into it less and think of it logically
  • one of the best organized asian music sites
  • one of the if not the best request handeling asian music sites EVEN IF MINE NEVER GET ANWSERED >.>
  • constantly adding more music with many things released really early (some things get posted a week befor they even come out
  • multi download links on 90% of the downloads so you can download all day and night if you want
  • friendly community minus myself GO ME f*ck YALL
  • almost no requirement for anything
  • 10 albums tops would pay for this place so dont be cheap

^ how about we stop looking at what is needed and look at what you got i know many people want to give but come on dont be all like OMG he needs 100 bucks so we cant give him anything more i mean god damn if he got 500 or so all that would mean is a New forum like a VB or IPB and a better skin and maybe direct downloads and god only knows what else so stop being cheap and looking around the topic and simple give or dont talk about it simple as that!

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im not being cheap i just answer that guy glowstar D:

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glowstar wrote:
hey there! i would love to donate, but like everything i donate to, i want to know exactly how much stuff costs. what is the annual rate you're paying for webhosting? what are the exact dollar figures you're paying related to the site?

as for downloading music...i've only downloaded ONE thing so far, but i love the concept behind this (and after moving back from japan last year, i'm glad i have a place to find new music).

so...yeah. i need a full disclosure before i can donate, regardless of who i'm giving my money to.

thanks, and good luck!
tc


I have no idea where Mist got his info from about the price for webhosting...

Namecheap domain does indeed cost around $9

Our monthly webhosting is $50 per month. Premium accounts for files so they don't die are $10 per month (if you want to count that). Our new DDL system will probably need another cheaper webserver (depending on if this one can run it).

So:
Month: $60 (Hosting + Filehosting accounts)
Annually: $10
DDL: +$20 per month (Another server?)

All leftover contributions if one month has more donations will be passed on over to the next month, and it all goes well even more features like victorinox has said. We don't want to just provide Asian music and stop at that. There are a lot more features we would like to add ;)

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thanks for the disclosure! donating...now!

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As of now we have received $38! Thanks!

We still need $22 before 24th April though, so please help! =)

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Thank you to those who have donated this month! We have reached our monthly target of $60!

Thank you to these people:
EvilCody
lilkitty1021
glowstar
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