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Dear Readers around the Globe,
A very eventful year 2014 is coming to an end and as one of my donors/subscribers this year I would like to give you an update and express my gratitude for your contribution. As you know the Rebel Website has gone through a number of changes this year, the most important being
- the upgrade to a top-of-the-range dedicated enterprise server
- the extension with a Youtube-like video sharing and broadcasting feature
- the upgrade to the latest Joomla content management system version
- the upgrade to a new, far more versatile magazine template
None of these improvements would have been possible without your financial support and that of other contributors. Over the entire year 2014, I received 275 donations, totalling US$14,442. The single biggest donation was $1,030, the smalles $4. The average donation was $52, the median $30.
Above numbers are a big improvement compared to previous years and I am grateful to you and everybody else who contributed. It allowed me to double my 2013 budget of $500/month to now $1250/month.
The bulk of those $1250 is for the monthly web hosting fee of $719 for my dedicated enterprise server, including the recently performed RAM upgrade from 16MB to 64MB. The remainder is for other hosting related expenses such as
- domain name registrations
- malware protection
- professonal services performed by hosting firm
and software subscription fees for extensions such as our
- community software
- videosharing/broadcasting software
- forum software
- blogging software
- fundraising software
- shopping cart software
- like/unlike software
- RSS software
- social media submission software
- document manager software
- admin tools
- ACL management software
- AJAX live search software
- Mailing software
- file manager software
- live chat software
- backup software
As you can see, there is much more to the running of a site such as the Rebel Website than subscribing to some blogging provider such as wordpress or blogspot, especially if you have between 10,000 and 20,000 unique readers per day, 150,000 to 200,000 per month, visiting 150,000 pages per day.
All in all, the improvements made over the past 12 months have resulted in a doubling of visitor numbers and considerable improvements in the pages/visit numbers, time spent/visit and bounce rates, especially after the recent upgrade.
So thanks again for your support, and your part in making the Rebel Website the outstanding dissident site it is today.
On behalf of the entire Rebel Community, I wish you a very successful and happy new year 2015.
Sincerely,
Your Rebel of Oz
Editor/Publisher
The Rebel – Home of the Goyim Resistance
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There is so much more to the Rebel Website than just 24/7 breaking news and analysis:
1. Rebel Community – Social networking for dissidents
The intention of our new community building feature is to provide fellow dissidents with a fully fledged alternative to the likes of Facebook. Here only some of the advantages of our community feature over ‘Big Brother’ Facebook:
- unlimited friends and groups,
- ‘like’ and ‘unlike’ buttons,
- no censorship under the pretext of ‘community values’, and
- tight integration with other features of the Rebel Site.
2. Rebel Forum – Free speech discussion board
The new Rebel Forum is one of the very few free speech sanctuaries where Jew-aware activists can freely express their thoughts without fear of though police harassment.
3. Rebel TV – YouTube-like video sharing
The new Rebel TV video section allows all users to share videos hosted on other sites such as Youtube or Vimeo or – if they want to make sure the video doesn’t get pulled by the thought police – upload them to the Rebel Site, share them in the social media and embed them in their blogs.
4. Paid events and Ticketing
The paid events and ticketing extension allows all registed members of the Rebel Community to set up their own paid events, sell tickets and collect payment for them via the Rebel Site.
5. E-commerce
The new e-commerce extension allows our members to set up their personal shopping cart on the Rebel Site to sell products such as books, videos and merchandise and receive payment for them via the Rebel Site.
6. Fundraising
The new fundraising extension allows all members to set up their own fundraising campaigns and collect funds for them via the Rebel Site.
7. Personal Blogs
The new blogging feature allows all members to publish and promote their own blog on the Rebel site.
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