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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #60 on: April 10, 2008, 07:32:08 PM »
Quote from: Murphy's Stunt Double on April 10, 2008, 04:46:29 PM
What's your bandwith at now?
Haven't even looked at that. It's less about bandwidth and more about processor. 

For the record, I'm not interested in doing "fan servers", in the sense of a machine in somebody's basement.  We did that for a while, and I moved over to commercial servers for good reasons. :)

EDIT: Note, I don't think bandwidth is the concern here.  It's CPU time.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #61 on: April 10, 2008, 07:32:35 PM »
but how many time can I click and they count, or do I have to buy something from the site
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #62 on: April 10, 2008, 07:33:00 PM »
Quote from: IIIMarconeIII on April 10, 2008, 07:32:35 PM
but how many time can I click and they count, or do I have to buy something from the site
It's clickfarming.  The clicks are what tend to count, I think.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #63 on: April 10, 2008, 08:00:05 PM »
Quote from: IIIMarconeIII on April 10, 2008, 07:32:35 PM
but how many time can I click and they count, or do I have to buy something from the site

No, you don't have to buy anything.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #64 on: April 10, 2008, 08:24:49 PM »
Quote from: iago on April 10, 2008, 07:32:08 PM
Haven't even looked at that. It's less about bandwidth and more about processor. 

For the record, I'm not interested in doing "fan servers", in the sense of a machine in somebody's basement.  We did that for a while, and I moved over to commercial servers for good reasons. :)

EDIT: Note, I don't think bandwidth is the concern here.  It's CPU time.

Nah - I was curious cause I thought that's what company's predicate their rates on and I was going to look into the company I'm with to see if they could offer something better than you're going with now. We have gotten about 25000 page views a week on the dresdenverse and it's pretty stable (don't know what would happen if we spiked to 45000 like you did,) but I pay next to nothing for my space.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #65 on: April 10, 2008, 08:38:53 PM »
well if it is just clicks then i have anew game to play, how many tabs with advertisments can i open at once
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #66 on: April 10, 2008, 08:51:00 PM »
Quote from: IIIMarconeIII on April 10, 2008, 08:38:53 PM
well if it is just clicks then i have anew game to play, how many tabs with advertisments can i open at once
Don't overdo it; I'm pretty sure Google has algorithms designed to render things like that invalid.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #67 on: April 10, 2008, 08:53:11 PM »
well that is what i am asking... ok i wont go crazy
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #68 on: April 11, 2008, 12:43:10 AM »
Quote from: IIIMarconeIII on April 10, 2008, 08:53:11 PM
well that is what i am asking... ok i wont go crazy
hurray for not following my foot steps and going crazy.. dont know how people do it
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #69 on: April 11, 2008, 01:05:59 AM »
Crazy or not, I WILL say that the click-fees from today are quite a big bigger.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #70 on: April 11, 2008, 02:22:32 AM »
Quote from: iago on April 11, 2008, 01:05:59 AM
Crazy or not, I WILL say that the click-fees from today are quite a big bigger.

Most excellent.  I snagged a couple more Border's coupons.  I got paid today.

Yay!
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #71 on: April 11, 2008, 02:28:32 AM »
What about those of us running Firefox? I've never even seen ad ad here. It might not be a bad idea to add donation instructions to the FAQ page. PayPal is of the devil as far as I'm concerned, but they are a simple, one-click way to get some financial support. Having a PO Box so folks can send in checks or concealed cash is a good idea, too.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #72 on: April 11, 2008, 02:30:16 AM »
Quote from: cassandra on April 11, 2008, 02:28:32 AM
What about those of us running Firefox? I've never even seen ad ad here. It might not be a bad idea to add donation instructions to the FAQ page. PayPal is of the devil as far as I'm concerned, but they are a simple, one-click way to get some financial support. Having a PO Box so folks can send in checks or concealed cash is a good idea, too.

I use Firefox, and I see ads.  :)

Donation stuff is a little tetchy; I'd rather have folks get something tangible.  Buying things from Amazon by first clicking through the jim-butcher.com store is startlingly effective.
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #73 on: April 11, 2008, 02:32:15 AM »
You know, iago, I never think of that, mainly because I almost never go to the base www.jim-butcher.com. Perhaps for the sake of site snobs like me, you can put a link to the store somewhere in the header or footer?
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Re: This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version
« Reply #74 on: April 11, 2008, 02:42:26 AM »
Quote from: cassandra on April 11, 2008, 02:28:32 AM
What about those of us running Firefox? I've never even seen ad ad here. It might not be a bad idea to add donation instructions to the FAQ page. PayPal is of the devil as far as I'm concerned, but they are a simple, one-click way to get some financial support. Having a PO Box so folks can send in checks or concealed cash is a good idea, too.

If you're expecting pop ups, they don't have them here.  If you look at the top and bottom of each page, you'll see the ads we're talking about.  They're not that obvious.  Thank God.
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