Donations to the upkeep of the Ixion server

We thought we would give you the opportunity to make a small voluntary donation to the Ixion Coffers. As some of you may know, Ixion was evicted from its traditional home in Nottingham early in 2002, and since then has been resident on a server owned by EKS companies Yellowduck and Redpoint Consulting (aka your humble servants, Ixies Adam Curtin & Robin Szemeti).

The server costs us, personally, umm ... quite a lot - and Ixion is by far and away the largest user of the bandwidth. To give you an idea - we process around 1,500 incoming messages for ixion each week, which are sent out to around 400 subscribers. That's around 600,000 outgoing messages a week, or 2.4 million messages a month. It uses around 2.5GB a month of bandwidth for the ixion mailing list alone, and of course there's the hosting and webmastering of this website on top. We manage the server, tend to the needs of Ixies and keep it fed and watered for the love of it.

Ixion is free. We would never dream of making a charge for using Ixion. No Way. Never.
But (theres always a but ;-) ) we won't be offended if you wish to make an (entirely voluntary) donation towards the running costs.

If you'd like to contribute, we've chosen PayPal as our easy payment mechanism. Just type an amount below, click donate, and follow the instructions. Because they are a US based outfit the amounts are in dollars, but it all ends up in pounds eventually. The money goes to Redpoint Consulting and will contribute towards the Ixion running costs (with hardly any of it being used to fund Robin's wild nights of debauchery with the Swedish Women's Ice-hockey Team :-) ).

Alternatively, direct bank transfer is slightly less easy, but has the advantage that it all gets to us (without Paypalkeeping some). If you'd like to do that, please email Adam for info. If you're really keen, you could be one of Ixion's best friends and set up a standing order :-)

As a token of our appreciation we will add your name to our Friends Of Ixion page.

Remember - It's entirely voluntary: if you don't wish to contribute - don't. It's no big deal. We hope that what we do for you is useful and appreciated, and we know that some folk want to help out, but if you don't then that's fine. Honest.

So, without further procrastination: