Downtime

[Akuma]

Hetzner, our hosting provider, very inappropriately took down our server again because they didn't like the contents on thehandprints . I told them point blank they were in the wrong and to put our server back up, and they did so without even responding to me. Frankly, if they weren't in Germany, they would be in law suit territory at this point.

I just want to assure our userbase that I will never allow animeotk.com and our sister sites to go down permanently. There may come the day though where our hosting provider permanently shuts us down out of some malformed sense of justice, and if that day comes, we'll have to find a new hosting service.

The money situation is not looking good at the moment, as we had to leave Patreon in January, and the jerks at subscribe star never even RESPONDED to my two attempts to create an account and contact them. So I'll be posting more information on donations routes soon. If we do have to move servers at some point, it will be costly and preparing for that possible day is something I should be doing for our sites.

[noble_lance]

Crazy thought, why not use Only Fans? Get an artist to donate one art piece a month to cover the idea that something is being produced by the account to justify the sub. Probably not gonna work but I figure I could offer some 2cents on that.

[Gus1996]

or just open a PayPal account ... though I'm not sure what their rules are, but since it's basically a bank, you don't need to "produce" or "post" anything there, unlike on OnlyFans as @Noble_Lance said you needed to, and Patreon which didn't seem to work out either.

and I'm pretty sure people would still support you anyways, even if you're not posting stuff in the page where they put their money.

the only reason I stopped my monthly USD 50 Patreon support, is because Patreon decided to shut you guys off (page under analisis) and I never managed to find another place that accepts PayPal to support you guys.

if you do have one, I'll gladly re-start my monthly contributions.

[Stoner]

Originally Posted by Gus1996

or just open a PayPal account ... though I'm not sure what their rules are, but since it's basically a bank, you don't need to "produce" or "post" anything there, unlike on OnlyFans as @Noble_Lance said you needed to, and Patreon which didn't seem to work out either.

and I'm pretty sure people would still support you anyways, even if you're not posting stuff in the page where they put their money.

the only reason I stopped my monthly USD 50 Patreon support, is because Patreon decided to shut you guys off (page under analisis) and I never managed to find another place that accepts PayPal to support you guys.

if you do have one, I'll gladly re-start my monthly contributions.

if only it were that simple... paypal have a no porn policy or something so we couldnt publicly take donations through it.

[Gus1996]

Originally Posted by Stoner

if only it were that simple... paypal have a no porn policy or something so we couldnt publicly take donations through it.

just don't link it to any porn websites then ... doesn't seem to hard to do ... create the account either as a person or as a company, if it's a company then give it a neutral name, like "Anime Artworks" and there's that ... not like they'll investigate to see where the money coming in is being spent on ... right ?

besides, if they ask for what kind of artwork just use some random non-porn artwork someone commissioned beforehand in case this happened.

[Akuma]

@NobleLance - I think I will go the route Only Fans route, thanks.
@Gus1996 - We do have a paypal account for donations, I just have to give it out individually to people and not advertise it.

[Gus1996]

PM'd you about it.