{"id":6540,"date":"2017-01-01T08:16:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T08:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/\/?p=6540"},"modified":"2017-01-01T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T08:16:09","slug":"announcements-trying-out-patreon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/announcements-trying-out-patreon\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcements: Trying out Patreon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/adamchandler\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/adamchandler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just renewed my VPS for 2017 a few hours ago. $360 + $40 for extra IP Addresses and $30 for SSL Certificates to keep this blog, photos, beer blog, Micro-Blog and other services alive. It\u2019s not a lot of money and I\u2019ve had a VPS for a few years and each year, the price does go down but I was thinking, what if I ask readers to lend support? We\u2019ll see how it goes. I\u2019m not good at self-promotion. 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