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| palmer6strings:
--- Quote from: segamer on March 23, 2016, 04:01:52 PM ---The cost of running the cover project is more than you think. Snowcone, who owns the site, pay's the cost out of pocket. The ads are to make up some of that cost. --- End quote --- I do understand that, hence why I said I'd donate. I've had web pages before, I am aware the costs. |
| wiggy:
Virtually every forum has ads. They're so non-invasive here that I didn't even notice until I went to check PMs. |
| Snowcone:
--- Quote from: palmer6strings on March 23, 2016, 03:44:46 PM ---Wait... So we have ads on TCP now? Am I the only one who has noticed this, or has this been covered and I'm just late to the party??? If it's coming down to a money issue, I'd gladly donate to help keep ads off our page... --- End quote --- That's a new thing. It's a test run for the time being. I'm about to have to make some major changes to our hosting. We have maxed out the 100GB storage space and we push somewhere north of 750GB of traffic every month. Calculating out the cost of that at somewhere like AWS would put us north of $100/month. I'm looking at a few other options that expand our speed globally via a CDN but also upgrade the overall experience here (for I think the 5th or 6th attempt). |
| segamer:
--- Quote from: Snowcone on March 24, 2016, 02:19:49 PM --- --- Quote from: palmer6strings on March 23, 2016, 03:44:46 PM ---Wait... So we have ads on TCP now? Am I the only one who has noticed this, or has this been covered and I'm just late to the party??? If it's coming down to a money issue, I'd gladly donate to help keep ads off our page... --- End quote --- That's a new thing. It's a test run for the time being. I'm about to have to make some major changes to our hosting. We have maxed out the 100GB storage space and we push somewhere north of 750GB of traffic every month. Calculating out the cost of that at somewhere like AWS would put us north of $100/month. I'm looking at a few other options that expand our speed globally via a CDN but also upgrade the overall experience here (for I think the 5th or 6th attempt). --- End quote --- We might have a problem with bots or programs downloading covers. When I upload new covers, I've noticed that an average cover gets about 5 - 10 downloads a day but often, some random cover will get 1000 to 3000 downloads in a day. An example is Resident Evil series for Xbox 360. I posted Resident Evil 5, 6 and Operation Raccoon city at the same time. Both Resident Evil 5 and 6 had less than 20 downloads that day. Operation Raccoon City had more than a 1000 that same day. This is an example; the day I posted this, it got 2000 hits in less than a day: http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cover_id=14839 This too: http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cover_id=14639 |
| larryinc64:
I tend to leave my ad blocker on so I did not notice the ads until I was on mobile. I just added TCP to the white list. |
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