Soon VivirLatino will be out of it’s toddler years and into out pre-school years. Next week we turn 5. If you have been followers of us for any length of time then you know that over the last two years we have had a number of problems with our hosting. From ridiculous overage charges anytime we post about something remotely popular (see Ricky Martin’s coming out posts) to database connectivity issues that have shut our site down at time for hours to days.

We’ve had enough and hopefully you have too.

We want to start out next 5 years running smoothly and without the fear of logging on to get Latino political/cultural news and commentary only to get an error message.

To get more reliable servers we need something we don’t have. Money. The little money we do get from advertising goes to pay the servers we have and overage fees. Our editors are not getting paid at the moment and that includes yours truly. VivirLatino is and in a way always has been a labor of love and commitment to our personal values and beliefs. We are not (contrary to what the haters say) funded by any organization.

We are asking you: our readers, our twitter followers, our facebook fans to consider Chipping In so that we can move our servers. To move and keep us online for the next year we need $500.

Can you help?

Mil gracias for your support and love.

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