Blogheal

Ok before I say anything I want to make it clear that I didnt want it to come to this. This site has, for 4 years now, stood by itself under its own weight without much problem. I was ALWAYS against the idea of asking the users for money but sadly its just what needs to happen now.

You will notice a widget on the side bar. Basically what we are asking of the community is to help pay for 3 months of hosting (3 months would actually be around $2800 but I rounded it up). The current advertising money will go towards getting the necessary hardware upgrades we need to keep the site running smoothly. What will happen once those 3 months are up? Well, I am going to try to find a way to make the site sustainable financially again. 3 months is plenty time to figure this stuff out and i’m confident that I will never have to make another donation drive like this again.

So if you can spare a buck or two here or there then we would greatly appreciate it.. anything at all will help. Im not expecting to reach our goal but if we can even make half of that I will be very impressed and forever in-debt to the user-base.

Thank you.
~ wiiaboo

THE PROBLEM:

Paheal is losing money and at the current rate will be closed in July.

We currently make about $700 a month in revenue.  The site costs €600 ($850) a month.

Ad revenue has been way down in the past few months.  We apparently lost a major advertiser, but Etology (the ad company) won’t tell us who.  One of the main problems is that most advertisers are unwilling to work with a site that has content like ours (in other words, loli/shota*).  This is one of the reason other sites have removed their loli content (e.g. e-hentai, aerisdies).  Furthermore, as most of you know by the massive amounts of Bad Gateway Errors, the site is more popular than ever, but we are making less money than ever.

CONSIDERED SOLUTIONS:

• We have considered trying to find cheaper hosting, but alas the majority of cheap hosting is in the US.  The site owner Wiiaboo (aka Bismarck) does not wish to host in the US due to legal issues around loli/shota*.  Similarly, Canada and Australia are out of the question.

• We have also considered donations.  Again, Wiiaboo is “vehemently opposed” to that idea saying:

“I dont ever want the site to be in a position where it has to ASK for anything.  This site is basically run by the users and thats how it will always.”

Agree or disagree with him, I don’t care.  He pays the bills and he makes the decisions.  Thus donations are not an option.

COMPLICATIONS:

We are in the midst of a “change of guard”.  I (Titanium) will be going into a semi-retired status soon due to that strange thing called “real life”.  There will be new admins and possibly a new owner soon.  While this doesn’t necessarily impact the financial situation, it’s another layer of shit on the manure pile.

SOLUTIONS (CALL FOR HELP):

So, given all of this, we are humbly asking for useful ideas and suggestions from our users.  Because the blog site filters out many legit comments, please use our email address (staff *at* paheal.net) with “Sugggestion” in the subject line.  Any leads on good advertisers who are known to work with “questionable” sites like ours or good professional hosting** would be appreciated.

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*For past conversations on loli/shota and legal issues, see http://rule34.paheal.net/wiki/Notes

**Past hosts have been troublesome in that we have “unlimited” bandwidth, but they shut us down for using too much processor time.  Please note that offering your own computer to host Paheal is appreciated but not tenable.

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EDIT: I will not say this again.  Loli/shota are illegal in the US.  Do some research.  We are NOT going to be the ones who challenge the law in court.