We Need Your Help: Donations

[texasrattler]

Thought I would visit my old, reliable KHOU weather forums and found that I had missed a lot! My old user ID and password still worked! Just donated what I could to help things along. It's great to see a lot of the old familiar faces here like srain, Andrew, etc. Thank you for the passion y'all show for our local weather.

[Andrew]

Thought I would visit my old, reliable KHOU weather forums and found that I had missed a lot! My old user ID and password still worked! Just donated what I could to help things along. It's great to see a lot of the old familiar faces here like srain, Andrew, etc. Thank you for the passion y'all show for our local weather.

glad to have you here texasrattler! Thank you for donating too! Hopefully you stick around and can use this as one of your sources for weather discussion.

[srainhoutx]

Hey folks. We need your help keeping Wx Infinity running. Funds are getting low and we are operating on about 2 months worth of hosting fees ($60 per month). If you can contribute any amount, it will help us keep our Weather Community going. I have exchanged emails with Andrew regarding the security certificate. He stated he would address this soon. Thank you to all that have contributed in the past. It is greatly appreciated!

[Iceresistance]

Hey folks. We need your help keeping Wx Infinity running. Funds are getting low and we are operating on about 2 months worth of hosting fees ($60 per month). If you can contribute any amount, it will help us keep our Weather Community going. I have exchanged emails with Andrew regarding the security certificate. He stated he would address this soon. Thank you to all that have contributed in the past. It is greatly appreciated!

I sadly can't donate, but I did let S2K know about what's going on here.

[msc7363]

I’d like to donate, but I’m concerned about the warning of information being compromised due to the certificate issue. Any way around that?

[Annemometer]

Ditto msc7363. I’m happy to contribute but not online without a valid security certificate. Can we send you a check or ? to get you up to date? Does WX Infinity have a snail mail address?

[GBinGrimes]

The certificate is ONLY for the SSL cert of this website. It has zero to do with submitting payments to support the site. No worries.

Count on my donation coming through this morning.

[Andrew]

Hey everyone, my apologies for the tardiness in updating the SSL certificate. It should be updated now. I will try to make sure I reissue the certificate next year before it expires. As Grimes mentioned we never collect any payment details on this site and the only information we collect is your email when you sign up. We let the pros over at PayPal secure the data and deal with the important information. With that said, I do apologize again because it was my responsibility and I did not keep up with that. I know we have a couple of regulars who often keep this forum afloat with their donations and I can't thank you and everyone else who has donated over the years enough. Your help and contributions have ensured we can provide an environment to talk about weather across SE Texas, Texas, and the U.S.A. For transparency purposes, we currently have $473.46 in the account and received $328.21 over the last 7 days alone. That is amazing! At $54/month in server costs that will make sure we are good for the next nine months. Thank you so so so much!

[ajurcat]

Donated. Really follow you during hurricane season. Thanks everyone!

[GBinGrimes]

Just checking to see how the site is doing on funds, and if contributions are needed.

Hey everyone, my apologies for the tardiness in updating the SSL certificate. It should be updated now. I will try to make sure I reissue the certificate next year before it expires. As Grimes mentioned we never collect any payment details on this site and the only information we collect is your email when you sign up. We let the pros over at PayPal secure the data and deal with the important information. With that said, I do apologize again because it was my responsibility and I did not keep up with that. I know we have a couple of regulars who often keep this forum afloat with their donations and I can't thank you and everyone else who has donated over the years enough. Your help and contributions have ensured we can provide an environment to talk about weather across SE Texas, Texas, and the U.S.A. For transparency purposes, we currently have $473.46 in the account and received $328.21 over the last 7 days alone. That is amazing! At $54/month in server costs that will make sure we are good for the next nine months. Thank you so so so much!

[jasons2k]

Can we also get the image uploader fixed, pretty please? Donation coming from here too.

[Andrew]

This should be fixed now. Sorry, life has been crazy lately.

[srainhoutx]

Hey folks. We need your help. Andrew has been personally paying the bills out of his own pocket to keep the Forum up and running for the past year. Please take a moment and make a contribution to keep the Weather Board up and running! Please consider making a ongoing monthly contribution. If everyone that posts daily contributed $5 monthly, the monthly server hosting cost would be covered. Please help keep Wx Infinity up and running!

[srainhoutx]

Hello Everyone,

I hope everyone has made an easy transition over to the new site! We've updated the board overall and now have a SSL secured site (https) along with many exciting features we hope to bring to the board over the next several months . With that said, supporting the site by the staff alone is something that is not sustainable over the longterm. Simply put, we are asking for your help and support to help keep this great community going. Currently, I have included the current breakdown of costs based on our most recent estimates.

• Domain Registration: $20 a year

• Server costs: $50-60 a month (estimated)

• SSL Certificates: $60 a year

That breaks down to about $67 a month to effectively maintain what we currently have, but doesn't include the possibility of server upgrades if the site expands or if we have a very busy weather season. A PayPal account for "Weather Infinity" has been created where anyone that is able to donate can. I know I speak for the community as a whole when I say thank you to anyone who does help support us. This environment helps so many people remain informed and we hope to keep going for a long time.

If you feel like you can donate, I have included a link at the bottom of this thread, but you can also click the donate button in the footer on the bottom of any page. If you do donate, please include your username in the memo option so we can keep up with who is donating.

-The Weather Infinity Team

Here is the link to donate...Thanks for keeping our Weather Community up and running!

[TxLady]

Donation Sent. Thank You for all You do!