bigfish1965 Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 I meant to do this last month but was kinda busy so I'm catching up on stuff... Last quarter (Jan,Feb,Mar) was our busiest ever. Here's some of the numbers Hits-46,000,000 Unique Visitors- 477,000 Unique Page views- ~2,400,000 Returning Visitors- 155,000 If April is any indication, even these records will not last long. The month of April was the busiest month ever..by a long, long shot, so I will be keeping an eye on the server loads Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_paul Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 If April is any indication, even these records will not last long. The month of April was the busiest month ever..by a long, long shot, so I will be keeping an eye on the server loads If we keep the marshmallows and hockey to a minimum, hopefully the server won't get too overloaded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
largemouth Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 thanks to Irishfield. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 i wonder how many of those are related to "marshmellow" or "i recognize that rock" Thanks to all the Admins for keeping this place running! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketchenany Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 When they see "Camp Jiggy Jiggy Report" in the topic line, every one and his brother come in for a look, Your work is well appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnybass Posted May 2, 2008 Report Share Posted May 2, 2008 (edited) If those numbers are accurate, I don't see why you even need the small % of people with ad-blockers to turn them off. You should easily be making enough green to cover your increase in server cost. You said $2,000/year right? Hell, if you're only charging a third of what the rest of the market is charging for advertising, then why not just charge double what you're charging now and you'd still be undercharging, go get your dedicated server and problem solved? No? Edit to add: Drop the google ads and use affiliate ads instead. The increase in revenue will more than pay for a dedicated server twice over. Edited May 2, 2008 by jonnybass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danbouck Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 All is great Rick! Don't change a thing A thank you to everybody running this site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnybass Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 All is great Rick! Don't change a thing Ummm... He said they are running out of bandwidth and the ad revenue isn't enough to upgrade their server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 See HERE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfish1965 Posted May 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 If those numbers are accurate, I don't see why you even need the small % of people with ad-blockers to turn them off. You should easily be making enough green to cover your increase in server cost. You said $2,000/year right? Hell, if you're only charging a third of what the rest of the market is charging for advertising, then why not just charge double what you're charging now and you'd still be undercharging, go get your dedicated server and problem solved? No? Edit to add: Drop the google ads and use affiliate ads instead. The increase in revenue will more than pay for a dedicated server twice over. Affiliate ads do not pay more than Google Ads. Charging double would result in a loss of two thirds of our clients....maybe more. We track the number of ads being blocked and the number is increasing. It is still quite small, but as a courtesy to those who pay for this site, we are simply asking those who block to alllow on this site. Our bandwidth is fine, it is our disc space we have to worry about. We've set this thing up to use little bandwidth, but our MySQL database is now over 700 Mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonnybass Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 (edited) Great! Edited May 3, 2008 by jonnybass Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJQ Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 Camp Jiggy Jiggy report coming soon.... lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerritt Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 Common Carp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted May 3, 2008 Report Share Posted May 3, 2008 Rob Hyatt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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