The current level of donations is already over 5x what's needed to pay for the server expenses, and it can probably handle 100x the traffic.

"Sustainable" is a much easier goal than needing to be worth billions of dollars to make your investors happy.

I’m still surprised that I can’t donate my resources toward a distributed DB/web server for this kind of content. E.g. by subscribing, I automatically start serving content and/or augmenting other mirrors. As some channels I subscribe to become stale, I automatically start re-assigning my resources to keep it alive.

Basically a BitTorrent/Tor-like decentralized system for distribute DBs with a web front end.

The amount of server resources I consume from fora must be 1/10000th the excess CPU/HD/bandwidth capacity I have.

I’m sure some cryptocoin project is working on something like this.