Web hosting and server administration for Rodovid.org genealogy website
The web servers of the Rodovid.org genealogy portal serve about 4.2 million requests every day, ensuring stable operation of 25 language versions for almost 80,000 registered users.
Created in March 2005 to enable joint, free and open editing of family trees, the Rodovid.org genealogy portal has remained free to use for all the 20 years of its operations.
Key figures
As of 11 January 2026, the database of the Rodovid.org genealogy portal stored:
| Registered users | 77 668 |
| Languages | 25 |
| Persons | 1 497 520 |
| Events | 1 877 250 |
| Families | 380 648 |
| Places | 55 933 |
| Sources | 3 203 |
Web hosting
The primary servers of Rodovid are located at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in Ireland. The backup copies are stored on other AWS servers in the United States.
The average monthly costs of web hosting and traffic accounted for $250 (based on the data for the Q4 of 2025), out of which $210 is to pay the fees of its primary servers, with another $40—to cover the costs of the backup copies.
Our goal
The goal of this pilot fundraising effort is to raise the equivalent of $750 to keep the servers running for three months, from 1 January to 31 March, 2026.
What's next
Once this fundraising round is complete, we will announce new fundraising rounds for the projects we have already planned to improve the operations of the Rodovid genealogy portal.
Web hosting and server administration for Rodovid.org genealogy website
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