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Donate and help Miraheze improve!
Help Miraheze, the unique, one-of-a-kind wiki host, improve its services and provide faster wikis! Make a one-time or recurring donation:
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We're 41% of the way there! Help us get to our goal!
2023 was a very rough year but we're here and more dedicated than ever. Our commitment to providing free wiki hosting is unwavering. No other free wiki host comes close to providing the level of service that Miraheze does and to so many people.
We're more determined now than ever to provide quality wiki service. No one wants a slow wiki and we have ambitious plans to turn the farm around and improve user experience but we need your help! Your donation will go a very long way. Not only will you help keep us online, but you will also help us improve our services and make them faster. None of us get paid, but we love our work, and we hope you do too, so please donate to our one-of-a-kind project, Miraheze.
Where will my donation go?
No one at Miraheze gets paid. We mean it. No one. 100% of your donation goes back into Miraheze in the form of server payments and expansion. Consider what we'll do with your donation:
Keeping Miraheze running
We serve nearly 500,000 users daily. It's not cheap to serve so many users across thousands of wikis. Your donation will help keep Miraheze running and serving our hundreds of thousands of users. We need around $4970 for basic server costs in order to keep Miraheze online, not including other costs such as domains, etc. Your donation will help keep Miraheze online for another year and will help us keep serving you. However, we wish to improve your experience much more! Consider what else we'll do if we surpass our basic survival goal.
Making Miraheze faster!
Miraheze is growing, and there's no sign of slowing down any time soon! Sadly, our infrastructure cannot keep up with our massive growth. Have you noticed how slow Miraheze is sometimes? It's simply because there's not enough resources!
We are working to migrate to better servers which will reduce our costs. We also have the chance to upgrade our new server's hardware which will help us even more! Please consider what additional resources we may be able to secure if we are able to surpass our yearly goal.
| Cost | Upgrade | Reasoning |
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| $1500 | Memory | Our proposed servers will have 256GBs of RAM. While that's quite a feat, we require more for caching. Have you ever noticed you get logged out randomly? That's primarily due to a lack of RAM resources for caching. If we surpass our goal, we will seek to add more RAM to our servers, potentially bumping each server to 384GBs of RAM. |
| $1200 | Storage | Our proposed servers will have around 4TBs of storage. We are looking to bring this up to 6-8TBs per server, in order to accommodate the growing database and file server sizes. |
| $194 | Increase caching capacity | We currently have 2 content proxies in Canada and 2 in the United Kingdom. Our goal is to add another one to both Canada and the United Kingdom and to also launch 2 either in Singapore or Australia to improve Asian connectivity (we will analyze which makes the biggest impact on Asian users connectivity and open it accordingly). |
Why should I donate?
Support a unique project
People are shocked when they learn no one at Miraheze makes a profit or gets paid. Everything we do is for our users and never with profit in mind. With the power of our awesome volunteers (which you can be too!), we serve our users every single day, all without pay. What other organisation provides high-quality wiki hosting to thousands a day for free? Users often remark that Miraheze seems too good to be true, and it almost is. Help keep this truly unique project online for years to come!
Support a project that listens to its users
Everything we do is with our users' consent; their word is law. All our global policies are ratified and voted on by the community (this includes you!) and our 'staff' members (Stewards, Global Sysops) serve at the community's pleasure. No other wiki host takes such a user-centered approach, and no one ever will. That's what makes Miraheze unique: we care about what our users think.
Support a project that has transparency like none other
Very few organizations are as transparent as Miraheze is. All our policies are documented here on Miraheze Meta, our finances are open to the public, and you can always peek into what our teams are doing with ease. We always strive to put our users first and let them know what's going on inside; we never leave anyone in the dark.
Support a project that thousands depend on
Thousands of users and organizations alike depend on Miraheze. Miraheze has grown to be a vital and critical collaboration tool for many organizations. Below are a few:
- Ada Developers Academy
- Bristol Community Health
- California Correctional Health Care Services
- Filipino Student Council of New South Wales
- International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Jackson Heights Initiative
- NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
- Northeastern University
- Open Government Pioneers
- Rosetta Code
- Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations
- Thunis (Saarland University Theatre Group)
- Wikimedia Indonesia
Note: If you are affiliated with any of the above organizations, we would be most appreciative if you spoke with your department head or other organization team leader about your organization making a much appreciated and generous monetary donation to Miraheze in view of the hundreds or thousands of dollars Miraheze has saved your organization. Likewise, if you are affiliated with an organization not listed above, please let us know on this campaign's talk page.
Get a small reward for donating
Users who set up a recurring monthly donation of $10 will receive a special role on our Discord server which publicly identifies them as donors. Please make sure to tell us your Discord username to claim this.
Users who donate $150+ will receive the same as above and will have their name added to the "Special thanks" section below, as long as you tell us your username.
Where we stand
Miraheze continues to grow, and various communities continue to move to Miraheze. Due to the ongoing pandemic and energy crisis in the United Kingdom/Europe, our server costs skyrocketed to £550 ($700) a month for a total of $8400 a year! This is unsustainable and crippling for Miraheze.
Due to this, we have devised a plan to reduce costs while potentially tripling server infrastructure, by moving to the United States. While we migrate Miraheze to new hardware, we will still be paying for our other servers which means we are paying double out normal amount per month. Our goal is higher than last year's to reflect this. We trust that by next year, our server costs will hopefully lower.
Have questions?
We've got answers! If you have any questions, suggestions or want to find out how you can support Miraheze beyond just donating, you can write on the talk page or email us at sre.
miraheze.org
Special thanks...
Miraheze thanks these very generous benefactors for their contributions:
- NotAracham
- Louden Doney
- Hypercane
- Archiopedia Publisher
- Robkelk
- Jai Karayi
- Ethan Carrillo
- Aaron Hawk
- MikeV
- ↑ This count is updated manually every day or so and may not reflect the most recent donations.