Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

I started up a GoFundMe.com VGOF fundraiser to help cover our web hosting fees for this year.

The VGOF website garners a significant amount of web traffic, and is hosted on a VPS system that costs a little over $1,400 per year under our current web services contract.

I have a difficult time each year making this payment, and I pay hundreds of dollars out of pocket each year to make it happen.

If you are a freedom-loving American, please consider providing a donation to help keep the VGOF website up and running.

Thank you for your consideration!

http://www.gofundme.com/ls42kc

Out of curiosity, how long is your current web services contract good for, would you renew it, and does VGOF generate more demand than an average host (GoDaddy, Bluehost) is willing to put up with? What about something like Amazon Web Services?

Sorry for the dumb questions. Just interested in some of the behind the scenes stuff.

Also is there an offline way we can donate?

ShotgunBlast wrote:Also is there an offline way we can donate?

You can send a check or money order to:

VGOF
PO Box 10
Dahlgren, VA 22448

ShotgunBlast wrote:Out of curiosity, how long is your current web services contract good for, would you renew it, and does VGOF generate more demand than an average host (GoDaddy, Bluehost) is willing to put up with? What about something like Amazon Web Services?

Sorry for the dumb questions. Just interested in some of the behind the scenes stuff.

Yes - too much traffic. If I could get away with a cheaper hosting solution, I would definitely do so.

And to be fair - there are other websites running on this server, but VGOF is the main traffic source.

VGOF stats 1 FEB through 8 FEB

Viewed traffic
Unique visitors: 8,122
Number of visits: 14,750 (1.81 visits/visitor)
Pages: 62,279 (4.22 Pages/Visit)
Hits: 346,606 (23.49 Hits/Visit)
Bandwidth: 4.54 GB (322.69 KB/Visit)

Not viewed traffic (web crawlers)
Pages Hits Bandwidth
133,375 162,434 7.68 GB

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We did it! The hosting bill has been paid!