Our friends over at Fotolog.net have a serious problem- the runaway success of the site has run up quite a server bill: some $70,000 dollars and counting. Cypher reports that the site is doing "over half a billion page views per month", or about "70 servers and... 22 terabytes of bandwidth each month." The founders have been working diligently through the summer to secure funding, and rumor is that investors have been pretty receptive to the pitch- after all, Fotolog is probably the most popular photoblog service on the Internet. However, closing investment deals takes a lot of time, and Fotolog needs money now. As such, Fotolog has put out the Paypal hat, and asked their users, friends, and supporters to show some love.
If you are a Fotolog user, you already know how great the service is, so you should be first in line. But even those of us who do not have sites at Fotolog benefit from the site's existence: we receive the gift of great photography, for free, every day. Now it's time to say thanks: Gothamist has sent in our money. If you can, send some of yours! [Related: catch many great fotobloggers (and photobloggers!), including Laura and Eliot, at the Apple Store Soho, Thursday 6pm.]
Picture by KDunk, this week's Gothamist interviewer!
