Donation appeal for a faster server (updated)

Dear friends of music,

we are very happy about the high traffic that our website had in the past year and the first months of the new year. By the end of March 2021, the database has grown to almost 482,000 song entries and over 145,000 artist entries.

As nice as these results are, however, they have a somewhat unpleasant side-effect you may have noticed – the site has become noticeably slower at some times.

This is simply due to the fact that in 2018 we first chose the cheapest tariff of our web hosting company which of course has a limited range of services. Since we are now repeatedly reaching its limits, we decided to purchase an upgrade from our hosting provider towards the end of April.

This is of course not for free, so that the monthly costs that our association COVER.INFO n. e. V. for the operation of the site will more than double. At the moment these costs are not yet covered by the membership fees, so we call on all friends and users of our site to support us at this point with a small donation.

Even 5 or 10 Euros from some users will help to close the funding gap, larger donations are of course also welcome. You can donate to our association account, which is managed by Thomas Wagner for the association.

Account holder: Thomas Wagner
Bank: Commerzbank
IBAN: DE07 8204 0000 0108 9788 00
BIC/SWIFT: COBADEFFXXX
Purpose of use: Donation COVER.INFO n. e. V.

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You can also send us money via PayPal.

As we are a non-profit organization, it is not necessary to have a donation receipt in order for the donation to be recognized in Germany in the tax return. But if you still need a donation receipt, we will of course issue such a paper.

You can look forward to a noticeably better performance from the end of April and we would be happy to receive recognition in the form of donations.

Axel
Member of the board responsible for finances COVER.INFO n. e. V.

Update from May 3, 2021: The faster server is up and running. We thank the first donors. However, the financing of the more powerful infrastructure is not yet secured in the long term.