This Site's Heavy Load-Part II, The Unhijacked Version

[cassandra]

I've looked, Helen, and there aren't any for me. The first few times someone sporfled about the ad being germane to a thread I went looking, and I've never found a single ad. Granted, I hate ads, but for some reason I have none.

I'm glad the store referrals are getting it done. I've been part of a site that grew too much to support itself, and it's not fun.

[iago]

I'm sorry about the long outage this morning, guys.  I simply had to get some sleep.

[Helen™]

I'm sorry about the long outage this morning, guys.  I simply had to get some sleep.

Don't worry about it, dude.  In fact, if you can arrange one for the same time every morning, I'll be sure to make it to work on time.  Thanks.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Heh - Don't encourage the slave, Helen. He can sleep when he's dead. 

[Helen™]

Heh - Don't encourage the slave, Helen. He can sleep when he's dead. 

Yes, but if he dies what happens to the site?  I'm thinking of us here.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Priscellie'll handle it... she's still young...

*runs away before iago throws something at me.*

[iago]

I've put a reminder to click the ads and a link to the store at the top and bottom of the page.  Hopefully it's not too intrusive.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

No, it looks good to me! Thanks!

[Priscellie]

Priscellie'll handle it... she's still young...

*runs away before iago throws something at me.*

Priscellie's parents are in town, and she will be super-scarce this weekend.  Fred deserves super-love, as he has no gnome to tag-team site restarts.

[Helen™]

I've put a reminder to click the ads and a link to the store at the top and bottom of the page.  Hopefully it's not too intrusive.

No, it's good Fred.  People need to know to click the ads. 

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

Enjoy your parental units, Priscellie!

*gives Fred extra lurves*

[Helen™]

Priscellie's parents are in town, and she will be super-scarce this weekend.  Fred deserves super-love, as he has no gnome to tag-team site restarts.

Excuse me?  You expect a life?

[iago]

There's definitely been an increase in clicks (and thus cash) over the last few days -- significantly so.  Thanks guys, and keep it up--more cash on the way in means that our options down the road continue to improve (and, frankly, makes it more worth my time to do such things).

Inspired by this, I've gotten a little more into the meat of how things are running on the server, and I've got some on-server monitoring of the database's "stats" so I can see if that's the culprit, as well as trying my hand at a little mysql server tuning.  We'll see how that fares!

[Helen™]

That's excellent, Fred, and I think it's fair to say that makes everyone happy.  You've created a nice place here.  We'd like to keep it.  If there's anything you need aside from ad clicking, let us know.

[Murphy's Stunt Double]

There's definitely been an increase in clicks (and thus cash) over the last few days -- significantly so.  Thanks guys, and keep it up--more cash on the way in means that our options down the road continue to improve (and, frankly, makes it more worth my time to do such things).

Inspired by this, I've gotten a little more into the meat of how things are running on the server, and I've got some on-server monitoring of the database's "stats" so I can see if that's the culprit, as well as trying my hand at a little mysql server tuning.  We'll see how that fares!

Yay!  Keep up the good work, Fred, and like Helen said, if there's anything else we can do to support you guys and the site, just let us know!