Electric Leyland Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 Morning all.This weekend we'll be making some necessary changes and improvements to our beloved website/forum. Saturday morning to Sunday evening inclusive. You may experience some level of congestion during this period, so best pack some extra sandwiches and drinks just in case. We've backed everything up multiple times, and there shouldn't be any significant downtime occurring. We intent to stick with the general format for now, as requested by various members, so you won't notice much. Mainly we're attempting to improve the registration process to get rid of spammers, and to prevent delays with newbies registering. Hosting costs for the next 12 months have just been stumped up as we speak, so this year we will have 3 times the space and about 4 times more bandwidth. It's not cheap though, so to strengthen the Autoshite movement financially (i.e. put a few brass farthings in the meter) we are going to give GoogleAds a trial run, just to try and make this site pay for itself. If doing this offsets the costs of running the site then we will be more than happy, and for a website that generates over a million hits per month we are crazy not to.Peace and Love (of rusty old cars) to all.FromElectric Leyland, Mr H Sceptre, blakey (the shadowy techie one) and Baron Von Greenback (newer even shadowier techie one).
MrRegieRitmo Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 There's no gain without a bit of pain - look forward to seeing how things pan out! Good luck
mk2_craig Posted October 1, 2008 Posted October 1, 2008 I applaud the site mods for their efforts and I'm sure everyone else does as well, I've had a lot of enjoyment out of Autoshite even though I've never put anything into it. Well financially at least; hopefully the time posting several hundred pics of crap old cars counts for something!
Guest Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 I can happily confirm that Firefox does not block the ads...
Mr H Sceptre Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 I wholeheartedly concur with aforementioned statement re. Firefox. Nice BVG.
MrRegieRitmo Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Has the downtime started? It thankfully doesn't appear to be very down! I notice the new 'Ads by Google' addition at the top though....
Electric Leyland Posted October 4, 2008 Author Posted October 4, 2008 Downtime = realtime = no downtime. Fact.
Guest Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Pledge from A/S staff. How to buy that Roadline lorry for all forum members to share. If the daily number of unique visitors (i.e. 750 folks), for the next 50 days, clicked on the adverts constantly for 2.5 minutes a day (clicking 75 times in total @ 2 seconds per click), then: 750 x 50 x 75 x 0.1p = £2,812.50 That buys the truck and the petrol to drive it to some central locaion so we can all share it. Or just stand around with cups of tea looking at it.
pogweasel Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 I just hope firefox blocks the ads I am happy to report that the AdBlockerPlus add-on for FF is sucessfully doing it's thang.
morris_ital_lover Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 like the thinking there... lets buy it, hehehe!m0rris
pogweasel Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 like the tinking there... letsbu it hehehe! Say wha'?
morris_ital_lover Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 like the tinking there... letsbu it hehehe!Say wha'?sorry my tpiygn went all awol! edited it pretty soon after I had seen it though.m0rris
Pete-M Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 I just hope firefox blocks the ads I am happy to report that the AdBlockerPlus add-on for FF is sucessfully doing it's thang.So it does.I love Firefox.
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