The Billikens have been on a little tear recently. They have won eight of their last ten. With that, Billikens.com started receiving more and more visitors. In about a weeks time, traffic increased by about 150%. This put some strain on my server, so I upgraded. Likely for next year, as the Billikids grow up, I will need to further upgrade, which substantially increase hosting costs.
For those of you that don’t know, Billikens.com is funded entirely through donations. The site has no ads or subscription fees. So the generosity of the users is what pays the bills. We have had a fundraiser every two or three years since 2003.
To pay for upcoming server costs, I started a fundraiser a couple of weeks ago. In the first week about $140 rolled in. In the next week, another $25 rolled in.
billiken_roy, a longtime poster and friend, thought this was outrageous and posted the following this morning
those of you that havent donated to the cause should be ashamed of yourself. $170 as of today? that is all that we have sent. i would assume most are at least sending $25 or more which would mean about 6 or 7 people are all that has donated thus far? if i was steve i would post a list of the donators to at least give some recognition to the few that have the decency to enable all to enjoy this site.
I saw this and I went to lunch. I came back, checked my email, and there were seven new donations. By the end of the day, there were eight more. And this does not include those who said they put checks in the mail. $430 hit my inbox today.
Billikens.com has been a tremendous hobby. There have been times in which I have thought of giving it up. There have been other amusing moments. I have been running a site devoted to SLU basketball since I was 12. It will be quite strange when I don’t. Regardless, days like today will always impress me.
Now lets see how many Billikens.com users read SteveRogers.info.
For a fun tid bit, in the last month Billikens.com received more traffic from (each) the US, Canada, Australia, Spain, and Ireland than SteveRogers.info did altogether. China came up just short.
Leave a Reply