Donate to Improv Everywhere to Help With Server Expenses

by Scott Beale on February 4, 2008 · 4 comments

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Improv Everywhere has been getting quite a bit of exposure recently, especially with their recent “Frozen Grand Central” mission. They could use your help to raise some funds for bandwidth and server expenses, in order to keep producing all of their amazing missions. If you would like to help them out, please consider donating.

Long story short, our bill is already several hundred dollars and will continue to grow. If you like what we do, please consider making a small donation to help us cover our costs. All money goes directly towards paying our bills and funding new missions.

Side Note: Laughing Squid would love to help them with hosting, but we only offer shared hosting, and our focus is hosting for smaller websites. They are at the point where they need a VPS or maybe even dedicated server.

photo by Chad Nicholson

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1 allaina February 4, 2008 at 3:10 pm

do those hundreds of dollars include legal bills for all of their amazing missions that the public just doesn’t understand?

cause i can see those bills being even worse.

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2 Agent Minter February 4, 2008 at 3:45 pm

At this point, we’re running on shared hosting for “normal” times, and rolling over to a setup on Amazon EC2 for missions. Bandwidth/CPU is fairly low normally, but goes to absurd levels for things like this.

EC2 is nice, since we have a machine image that we can just bring online quickly, but it’s somewhat pricey once you have several going at once. At the peak (this morning, when I guess everyone came back into the office to look at it), we were up to 10 EC2 web servers. Yikes!

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