Fellow Xterra pic and video fans,

superjens.com recently came up for renewal, and I spent a good month just thinking about whether or not keeping this up and running was worth it. Taking a look at the logs for the last three months, seeing how many new pics and videos are uploaded to my site by you guys, and taking note of the propagation of these linked images to other sites and forums all over the internet made me realize I should put my personal opinions in this matter aside. Obviously this is pretty popular and handy.

So far there are 1,214 files (853 MB's worth) mostly pics but lots of videos as well. June alone has seen 327 new files, that's over 10 new uploads a day.

Some statistics:

Jan to March 2002 (100 days)
Hits: 290,308
Total Data Transferred: 70.44 GB (70,000 MB)

April to May 2002 (60 days)
Hits: 260,711
Total Data Transferred: 28.57 GB

July 1 to July 18 2002 (18 days)
Hits: 51321
Total Data Transferred: 7.37 GB

What's my involvement in all this? Keeping it running and backing it up every day! Uptime statistics since this year:

Since 1/1/2002: (Last 198 Days)

System Availability: 99.9146%
Total Uptime: 198d 5h:32m:31s
Total Downtime: 0d 4h:3m:54s
Total Reboots: 22
Mean Time Between Reboots: 9.02 days
Total Bluescreens: 0

All those reboots are due to applying security patches (unbelievable how often Microsoft patches things ... sad really). The largest part of that 4-hours of downtime is one of my coworkers accidentally unplugging the power cable and not noticing. Still, three nine's ain't bad! Your pics are available 24/7/365!

So what's the catch? Why am I telling you all this? My domain renewal fees just cost me $35 US ($50 CDN). I spend at least several every week keeping the server running and backing stuff up, answering emails and renaming/deleting files for people who messed up, giving out advice and help to those who don't know how to upload, you name it.

I really hope I'm not being an ass for doing this, but here's what I'm asking: If any of you find this useful and are happy to have a fast, easy place to store and host your Xterra pics and videos, why not donate a buck or two or more? No bad karma if you don't, I'm just accepting donated help from anybody in the form of greenbacks instead of sweat.

If you have a spare buck you can PayPal me at superjens@hotmail.com

Snail mail would be great too, shoot me an email and I'll give you my address.

Cheers eveybody

superjens