WebRing Mission

If you value WebRing, and feel you can benefit from an even better system, then join with the many others who have already contributed and send a contribution. Whether you contribute or not, however, we'll still offer the best service and support we can afford. That, to us, is what community means. The amount you contribute is up to you, but be sure to check out the one time $5 ad suppression offer here; think of it in terms of a magazine subscription perhaps. You can use PayPal by following this link:

Support WebRing one time for $5 or more: Use

What do you get for your contribution?

• To promote your ring, site or whatever else you would like to promote throughout the WebRing site. Many of you run commercial sites and already pay to support/host your site. Directly promoting your site and/or business on WebRing's pages is one way to improve the traffic to your site or ring. Giving small sites, with limited budgets, an opportunity to advertise on a large site like WebRing is something most large sites won't consider, and can't accommodate.
• Suppress advertising - Suppress any ads on either your ring(s), or for you as a member while using WebRing.

We believe your promotions will have much greater appeal, at a lower cost, than the mass market banners, popups, popunders, etc. that are used by mainstream advertisers. We'd like to see those mostly eliminated from WebRing, or used sparingly to help keep costs down.

Here are some of the ways your contributions will be used:

• We are developing tools to allow you to directly benefit from any advertising revenues your ring's pages produce. We'll give you the ability to run your own promotions, at a discounted rate compared with other advertisers, on your WebRing pages, directory and search pages, allowing you to keep any proceeds exceeding system costs. In the meantime, if you have a client who would like to sponsor or advertise on your ring let us know. We'll help you out.
• We'll promote WebRing on other parts of the Internet. By pooling resources we can promote WebRing elsewhere and increase traffic accordingly. We have already secured a sizeable promotional campaign which will begin shortly after the migration period ends.
• We are constantly enhancing the system. Obviously, a better system is in everyone's interest, and will keep WebRing growing and bringing more content and traffic to you and other users. All of the projects outlined above will be aided by support from the community; you.
• We must pay for existing hardware and bandwidth, and add new as needed. In 2001 we spent more that $60,000 to ensure that we have adequate hardware and bandwidth to cover the first year of operation. In 2004 we added another $20,000 worth of new servers to add to/reaplce the existing ones. If WebRing grows as we believe it can, eventually we'll need more to continue. Continuing costs, not counting compensation for developers, is running about $4,000/month.
• We'll continue to provide timely, personal support. We have strived to respond to each and every request for assistance since the migration period started. Every one of the people involved is unpaid and works at another job to support themselves. We think it would be in your best interest to have some paid help to ensure that you get the best, personal, care possible.