Donations/Tip jar for nixCraft

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Do you find my tutorials and nixCraft ( https://www.cyberciti.biz/ and https://www.nixcraft.com/) site useful? Please consider supporting it especially if you use ad-blocker. It is hard to keep the site running when so many people block ads. Donating money to the nixCraft site is easy!

You can choose from several options to support nixCraft financially:

The tutorials here on nixCraft are provided free of charge. If you wish to make a small contribution, you can use the link below:

  1. PayPal (one time donation)
  2. Patreon (recurring monthly donation)
  3. Bitcoin address: 1BnbCanB9oyUwGwTnKgSF6JaLYbsotwK9P

Okay why I need support?

nixCraft is a single man indie operation and online since 2002. I am a seasoned sysadmin and a trainer for the Linux operating system/Unix shell scripting. I had started this site for sharing my knowledge and documenting my experience as a sysadmin. Over last 15+ years site grown a lot. I was able to fund nixCraft for a while with my job and savings.

I have written over 5500+ tutorials and long blog posts. Apart from posts, I regularly reply tech support emails and moderate comments. nixCraft has become a 40+ hour/week job for me. I want to nixCraft to grown more for a long time.

For a long time, I used ads on the site. However, many of my readers block ads. As a result, I am unable to cover bandwidth, hosting, and other costs. I do not want to prevent readers with an ad blocker accessing nixCraft with nagware or begware. It is your right to use adblockers for privacy reasons. But, I am no big corporation. So I need your help. The way Patreon works is a fan or reader of nixCraft can donate whatever they want per month, and the donation is recurring each month after that. So anything, from $1/month up, is hugely helpful to the situation.

What I will use the money for:

  1. Hosting – I need a good hosting server plan to support all traffic get at nixCraft. Hosting servers are now sponsored by Linode (thank you!).
  2. Servers and CDN Bandwidth – I need a robust CDN for serving static content faster with SSL enabled option. Bandwidth is sponsored by Cloudflare (thank you).
  3. Internet connection – This also includes my home office ADSL2/FTTH and 4G LTE bandwidth.
  4. DNS hosting – I need a stable DNS hosting.
  5. Backup servers – Currently I use Google cloud server and Tarsnap (AWS/S3) to keep offsite backup of nixCraft.
  6. Email hosting/routing – I need a stable email hosting to send out email newsletters. I use Google apps for domain and AWS SES for sending email newsletter.
  7. Me – I need to continue to eat food and support nixCraft operation. 40+ to 50+ hours is taking out too much time. Apart from food and rent, I need to pay for insulin and other diabetic medicine too. Even though my needs are minimal, I need to help myself too.

You can choose from several options to support nixCraft financially:

  1. PayPal (one time donation)
  2. Patreon (recurring monthly donation)
  3. Bitcoin address: 1BnbCanB9oyUwGwTnKgSF6JaLYbsotwK9P

Thanks for any help you can offer if you decide to, and thanks for being a reader!