Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository Mirror
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ASSTR-Mirror is home to over 1000 authors of erotic literature, host of the alt.sex.stories.moderated newsgroup, and host of several popular erotic literature archives.

If you're here looking for information about how to make a donation to ASSTR-Mirror, if you're wondering how donations are being spent and why you should donate, you've come to the right place. Here you can get the link to send donations and find out how donations will be spent.

First and foremost, ASSTR-Mirror would like to say thank you to anyone making a donation and helping make our dreams for this site a reality. There are still many improvements to make, and they will require more resources to implement. Your support helps ensure the future of ASSTR-Mirror.



How Donations are Spent

The bottom line is it costs money to keep ASSTR-Mirror alive! The bandwidth that ASSTR-Mirror uses costs $145/month. In addition to the Internet service expense, there are software licensing expenses, services expenses, and hardware upgrades to handle the ever increasing number of people using the site.
In order for ASSTR-Mirror to stay online and remain as stable as possible, it needs funding. As the various internet search sites have been indexing the content of the site, they've been including ASSTR-Mirror's content in their search results more and more, which has caused an increasing numbers of people discovering the site. The bandwidth has already been increased twice since ASSTR-Mirror went online, and new networking equipment had to be purchased to handle the larger amount of traffic to the site. Every month the site has been online, the search providers have reported sending more people to the site than the month before.

What will be done with the funds?


Currently ASSTR-Mirror is needing an SSL certificate so that visitors can access it via https. It is also needing an in-house search server (the current Google Search blocks too many keywords for searching a story archive like this), which will require additional money for hardware and software. The internet gateway device that was purchased offers increased security features, but requires a yearly fee, which would make the site less vulnerable to attack.

What would be done with excess funds?


If donations are received to cover the basic monthly and yearly costs for bandwidth, and software / services licenses are met, funds will go toward better hardware and expanding as described above. If donations exceed the amount needed to maintain the site and the expansion costs, the excess funds will be dispersed to non-political / non-religious charity.



Donation Methods


VENMO

Currently, VENMO is the only method set up for sending donations.

VENMO donations


Please note that your personal information will be kept strictly confidential.

Thank you very much in advance for your support.





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