To those who are curious as to what the donations bought for this pool, and also to the geeks among us who are naturally curious about such things—if I'm not mistaken, and hopefully with his permission to post this, -ck used the money to migrate the pool to this beast of a machine. Here are its specs:

Provider	OVH US LLC
Type	Dedicated server
Location	Vint Hill, Virginia, USA
Processor	Intel Xeon E-2274G Processor (8M Cache, 4.00 GHz)
Memory	32GB DDR4 ECC 2666MHz
Storage	3 x 4 TB HDD SATA Soft RAID or 2 x 960 GB SSD NVMe Soft RAID
Public bandwidth	1 Gbps unmetered (burst 2 Gbps)

-ck wasn't kidding when he said that the new server is "massively overqualified for the task now." I think that that's a colossal understatement, and even more so if he went with the NVMe SSD variant.