Scale npm. Keep it running. Keep it awesome.

The npm Registry needs your help.

The npm Registry has had a 10x year. In November 2012 there were 13.5 million package downloads. In October 2013 there were 114.6 million package downloads. We're honored to have been a part of sustaining this growth for the community and we want to see it continue to grow to a billion package downloads a month and beyond.

Recently the npm registry got “crashy.” Many were not able to install, publish, or otherwise write code on npm. That’s bad.

Nodejitsu is gracefully taking the blame, and have shared the technical details on the Node.js blog. Since May 2013, when they acquired IrisCouch, Nodejitsu has operated the npm registry for the community. They’ve also taken on considerable costs in the process.

We're a startup. We run npm because we love node and we're very well qualified for the job. But in the last year, npm has become a giant beast of a project. We run it lean, both from an engineering and hardware perspective, because it's just too expensive to do otherwise.

We wondered, how could we possibly get the money for the hardware and engineers to do this the right way and keep it free for the community?

That’s where you come in.

Please show your support – Donate at scalenpm.org