Support The Network
Donations help keep our IRC infrastructure stable, secure and available.
Server Structure
The network is operated with multiple technical components that work together.
- IRC server infrastructure for stable connections.
- Web services for website, registration and account management.
- Database systems for accounts, channels, stats and moderation data.
- Mail and security services for activation, password reset and abuse prevention.
- Backups, monitoring and update systems for operational reliability.
Recurring Costs
Running the platform creates ongoing monthly and yearly expenses, including:
- Server hosting and virtualization resources.
- Domain, DNS and certificates.
- Storage, backups and bandwidth traffic.
- Monitoring, maintenance and security hardening.
- Development and operations tooling used for the platform.
What Donations Are Used For
- Keeping services online and reliable.
- Replacing or scaling server resources when needed.
- Improving protection against outages and abuse.
- Maintaining web, services and support infrastructure.
- Sustaining long-term operation of the community platform.
Transparency
Donations are used to support infrastructure and operating costs of this project.
Donate via PayPal
If you want to support the project financially, you can donate here:
Completely Voluntary
Donating is voluntary. No account, feature or access advantage is tied to donations.
Server Infrastructure
You can find a technical overview of our infrastructure and deployed components (nginx, Tomcat, UnrealIRCd, Anope, MariaDB, jWebIRC, Ubuntu, IONOS) on the separate page.
Thank you for supporting the network and helping keep this project online.