{"id":2131,"date":"2012-08-07T22:43:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?page_id=2131"},"modified":"2012-09-02T10:33:07","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T09:33:07","slug":"please-donate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/about\/please-donate\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Donate!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/photos\/money.jpg\" alt=\"money\"><\/p>\n<p>After four years of running Sonicrampage, after having done dozens of mixes and written all kinds of essays, and after having never asked for anything in return, I would now like to make a small request. If you are someone who has used and enjoyed the site &#8211; whether for the music, the essays, the pictures, or the whole package &#8211; I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider making a donation to help me keep running the site.<\/p>\n<p>For the last four years I have paid for this site out of my own pocket because, well, it&#8217;s my hobby, but it has become more expensive as the site has gotten more popular and more people have come to download the mixes &#8230; which is obviously a good thing! However, it does cost money to pay for the server and for my <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sonicrampage\">Soundcloud account<\/a>, and as I am a family man I would really appreciate a contribution to help keep this site a fun, non-profit musical enterprise, based around exploring old and new dance music. <\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Sonicrampage offers dozens of hours of underground electronic music entirely for free, which is something that I am proud of, and I have plans to make the site even better and offer even more content, however I will need a little financial help to make it a reality.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that I can promise you is that that the donations would be used purely for the upkeep of the site. <\/p>\n<p>How would I spend the donations? Initially, I would like to upgrade my Soundcloud account from Solo to a Pro account on Soundcloud, so that I can continue to provide a Soundcloud option on all new mixes (see <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/premium?ref=t027\">here<\/a> for more info on the various account types). Then I would like to put money towards paying my annual hosting fees, which doubled this year after my hosting company Inmotion forced me to upgrade to a Virtual Private Server to better handle the amount of traffic and resources that it was using. As I would be surprised to get even that much money, I haven&#8217;t thought about what I would do once the hosting was paid for! I wouldn&#8217;t spend the money on myself or my family, as the donation button is purely for the upkeep of the site &#8211; I would just put it against future hosting costs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading this far, and please consider donating if you can afford it:<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"cmd\" value=\"_s-xclick\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"hosted_button_id\" value=\"FJMBHC3F35FLQ\"><br \/>\n<input type=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/GB\/i\/btn\/btn_donateCC_LG.gif\" border=\"0\" name=\"submit\" alt=\"PayPal \u2014 The safer, easier way to pay online.\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_GB\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><br \/>\n<\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After four years of running Sonicrampage, after having done dozens of mixes and written all kinds of essays, and after having never asked for anything in return, I would now like to make a small request. 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