Thursday, April 08, 2004  
Friendly hoards of puny humans threaten to knock out A Softer World, but in the end pay to play.

:: Posted by max @ 4/08/2004 05:29:00 PM
On April 5th excellent minimalist photo Web Comic A Softer World got some high praise from Warren Ellis via his Email list. He put his blog where is mouth was as well, runing a Guest comic by Joey ici.



This was a mixed Blessing; Joey publicized the dilemma that resulted on his journal April 6th here…



Our hosting called, and we have gone over our bandwidth for the site like nobody's business. The limit for www.asofterworld.com is 1gig a month, and since April 1st we've done 4 gigs. 6000 people yesterday alone. That is awesome for us, because people are reading the comic, and liking it! That is not awesome for us because we didn't expect so many people and so did not pay for that much bandwidth!



Our hosting also told us that we've been doing about 4.5 gigs a month for three months now, and they've been letting it slide. They sounded angry and sort of ultimatum-like on the phone. If we move to the higher plan, (the 5 gig plan) and renew for another year, they will not make us pay the bandwidth fees, and they will not yell at us anymore. ->>>



He went on to ask for donations from his readers to help out, providing a pay pal link. His goal was $350.



Happy news is that more than enough $ came in over the following 24hrs to more than surpass the goal!



I am still reeling from the immediate, overwhelming response to our cry for help! We've gotten nice emails too, from people who couldn't donate but wanted to say they liked the comic. You are all really wonderful and we have surpassed the $350 goal by far.



Every cent donated will go towards a softer world, and maybe to feeding my cat. We are very seriously considering self publishing a nice, (read: professionally printed) collection of the comics, including many new comics which will be created out of gratitude.



Any further donations will go towards the softer world book, if you would still like to donate.



And A Softer World will be around a long, long time.



So all’s well that ends well. :)

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