If you like what we do, we need your help with the move

Posted on February 16, 2011 by HillBuzz // Hillbuzz

Help us make the move to the new site!

Hiring the team and renting the server space to move over to a new site for HillBuzz where we can transfer over all of our archives and turn them into an effective resource for the 2012 campaign has been much more expensive than we imagined when we decided to push ahead with the new site. The cost has always been the biggest stumbling block to this project…as is the terror of what the monthly usage and bandwidth charges are going to be once those bills start coming in on our own server. HB is going to pass the 15 million hits mark sometime in early March, so ad sales on the new site should ultimately take care of those server costs…but getting there is the hard part.

It is embarrassing to have to directly ask for help like this, but we honestly do need it.

The goal is to raise $3,500 to make the move and be free of WordPress and on our own, where we can finally create the action and activism-oriented site we’ve been evolving since we started so long ago.

The new site launch will happen regardless, but instead of starting things in massive debt to our creative team, we’d be able to begin under our own steam with their work paid in full. There’s no way to adequately express the weight that would take off our shoulders.

So, it’s humiliating to have to do this commercial and let go of enough pride to admit we need help, but we need help and appreciate anything you could chip in to help defray the costs of the move.

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