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Towards the end of last week it became clear the the server powering Drupal wasn't sufficient. On Friday a message was posted informing the Drupal community of the situation.
To make a long story short, our current server doesn't cut it anymore. Our unprecedented growth in traffic requires more and better hardware. To buy a new server we need your help to raise $3000 USD. Read more about the details below, or just click the Paypal donation button on the right.
However before this entry could be posted the shared server which drupal.org was hosted on went down. And the hosting company wasn't reachable over the weekend.
he good news is that the community responded amazingly. And in the first 13 hours donated $6468 to the project.
The Drupal community responded faster than we could imagine: in just 13 hours we raised over $6000 USD!
We talked to Scott Kveton, Associate Director of the Open Source Lab (OSL) at Oregon State University, and tomorrow (Monday, July 11h) we'll order a new server. The additional money will help us with an even better server (or a set of servers) than we thought possible, or will help us setup a Drupal Foundation. We'll follow up with more details in the next few days.
Thanks for your donations! You rock.