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Choose which server you would like to donate towards! If you're not concerned with selfish donating in this sense, feel free to choose the "Doesn't matter" option and we won't provision your donation toward the upkeep of a specific server.

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MJZ Web Hosting provides a highly accessible channel to the internet (frankly, one that is maintained in solidarity with the working classes) for roughly 2% of the price of an average monthly cable bill.1

From time to time — and for obvious reasons I guess — people around here will tell me to raise the prices. If you have ever told me to do so in the past (or have ever even thought of it at one point or another), now is your chance to realize that idea in an unregulated way! Basically, I think that it would be really cool for those who have earnestly suggested it (or would suggest it at least / can afford it) to maybe donate a few bucks to the service here and there. In the end, it would amount to the same difference more or less — you would be getting your wish for a higher price! The gesture would simply be more individualized on the whole. For now, I would rather not fix a new price to the potential chagrin of many users (I personally hate it when NOCs update their supposedly "fixed" pricing out of nowhere and I find myself paying an extra $15 monthly for an already expensive server to my budget ).

To make this idea a little better, I will make sure that all proceeds go directly to the upkeep of the service. Specifically, I am having it so you can donate strategically and (best of all) selfishly to the service in a way that might benefit your own account the most: to your server of choice. At the same time, selfish provisioning shouldn't be entirely necessary so I've added a "Doesn't matter" option to the server selection field as well.

Once (if ) donations start coming in, I'll begin recording the earnings publicly and associate each donation with the name of the 'kind hearted' donor (although I will let you choose to remain anonymous if you wish) and keep a running sum for each server. When donation totals jump high enough, we can have some kind of vote on how to augment the lucky server (extra RAM, faster ethernet port, superior backup configuration, extra disk space, etc.). This way, you can be sure that your donation is not buying me a can of soda, but is instead directly affecting the service in a way that you were able to exert some control over. You might think of it as semi-collaborative upgrade process or something to that effect.


1. "The average cable bill — TV, et al. — is around $80, according to the latest Federal Communications Commission report." (Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, 'Free' TV, But at What Price?) Do the rest of the math with an ATOMIC account in mind.



If you like what you see (or use) here, maybe you would like to be the next clandestine benefactor for MJZ Web Hosting, where "we have no money but need some in order to live"!

We all know that spoiled art brats, rich housewives who create useless startup companies selling minestrone soup from their husband's money, or lucked out socialites like Molly Brown (etc.) make use of maneuvers like this in order to produce their actions. William Burroughs, the so-called "avant-garde" writer, is one such example who's "parents, upon his graduation, had decided to give him a monthly allowance of $200 out of their earnings from Cobblestone Gardens, a tidy sum in those days. It was enough to keep him going, and indeed it guaranteed his survival for the next twenty-five years, arriving with welcome regularity. The allowance was a ticket to freedom; it allowed him to live where he wanted to and to forgo employment." (Ted Morgan, Literary Outlaw). Yes, it is MJZ Web Hosting's goal to become just as deplorable as folks like these!

One might say that by living within the shadows of contrast to these sorts of people for a long while, MJZ Web Hosting is beginning to become bitter and jealous of their methods and produced modes of life (this is the easiest way of dismissal after all)! Legitimately penniless and terrible at asking for money (as evidenced by this very paragraph) or creating evocations of inspiration in the hearts of others to give, the MJZist can often be found reading certain passages from Charles Dickens's Great Expectations over and over in an obsessive compulsive rage, near tears at Pip's discovery that the only reason he managed to become a "gentleman" was due the actions of — GASP — a convict, Abel Magwitch, whom he had once helped out during his childhood. The sort of arrogance that Pip carries around manages to make him hold his secret benefactor in contempt, not due to the fact that he was receiving bouts of mysterious funding on a regular basis (this was all fine and dandy as long as the act was shrouded in a fog of ignorance diffusing itself around the money and concealing its source), but due to the social role ("convict") of the man giving it to him! MJZ Web Hosting, of course, is not so stupidly proud and will accept money from convicts, beggars, oil barons, princes, cult devotees, corporatists, US customs employees, pseudo-leftist university professors, bootleggers and more! The affected air of "I don't care where the money is coming from as long as the social role isn't made public and everything stays under wraps" is nowhere to be found within the desperate, hunger-stricken reachings of the MJZist!