As some of you know, WinCustomize experienced the catastrophic hardware failure of TWO main servers in the past month. The net result was that WinCustomize had to be moved to some of Stardock's other servers which slowed down all of Stardock's sites as well as WinCustomize's.

While Stardock pays for most of WinCustomize's costs in exchange for hosting and promoting skins and themes for its software, WinCustomize still has to pay for some of its bandwidth as well as hardware.

Anyone who's familiar with Internet servers knows you can't just buy a PC and throw it up there. Servers for sites such as WinCustomize (which gets over 2 million unique users per month visiting) are very expensive.

Which is why we're running a subscription drive. We need to get a minimum of 500 new subscriptions this month.  We're at 333 right now but it's slowing down. We need your help. WinCustomize subscriptions offer many benefits including access to a couple of premium WC suites, the WinCustomize browser, unlimited downloads, prioritized bandwidth, and many new goodies coming out this Spring/Summer.

You can purchase a subscription for $20 which lasts two years. That money goes directly to help keep the site running. See the link at the bottom to purchase.

But since we have 333, we were able to purchase and already implement one new server which hopefully you can already see a dramatic improvement in site speed.  Check out the libraries and compare how much faster it is to surf this site.  Our next server will be designed to provide more redundancy so that we don't experience down times due to hardware failures.  There is still much to be done but hopefully you can now see the benefits provided by a new server thanks to WinCustomize subscribers!