# I'll show you the money! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 15, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-show-you-the-money/87443 "2001-10-15T04:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-show-you-the-money/87443/1 "2001-10-15T04:27:53Z")
Its 12:20 am on a Sunday night and there are (at last count) 140 members and guest using the SDMB. And its PAINFUL!!! So slow that I’ve stopped waiting for the post confirmation page. I can only imagine that its a question of hardware, or the lack thereof. So is there a fund that I can contribute to so that we can get bigger and faster servers? I would never want SDMB to go to a subscription, but I’d be willing to bet that you could find some folks willing to lend a hand to make it better for for everyone else. I know I would! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Water\_Method\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Water\_Method\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Water_Method_Man)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-show-you-the-money/87443/2 "2001-10-15T05:02:17Z")
Ditto ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ill-show-you-the-money/87443/3 "2001-10-15T05:20:26Z")
Bear in mind that we seem to have some specific (and, one hopes, fixable and hence temporary) problem going on, as detailed in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=92914), which is presumably unrelated to the usual “The board’s gotten too big for the server” issues.