Hello folks, This month was a very expensive for userscripts.org - instead of the normal couple of hundred dollar server; we paid for 3 servers (ending up costing $500 more than normal due to faulty hardware and bad timing). The good news is that the new server is MUCH faster, and has 3 times as much ram, and ISN'T crashing :) -- I'd really like a couple weeks of my life back dealing with those issues... If you are a geek you can always check out <a href="http://munin.userscripts.org/">munin</a> - before the upgrade we would start swapping after a few days of running the app servers. <b>Ads</b> - I've tweaked the ads a bunch. First I made it so that if you are logged in then you don't see them at all :) Secondly, I added <b>adbrite</b> which lets anyone sign up for a text link - this is an experiment. Third, I tweaked the colors of the google ads a bit. I've not yet, but I will put a nice labeled div around all the ads, so if you want to greasemonkey/userstyle them out of existence even if you aren't logged in, then you can - of course I figured if you really care, you would be using ad-block anyway ;) Please let me know if any of this is offensive, we've been keeping the ads as far out of the way as we can (heck, google even emailed us saying we should be making MUCH more if we put and ad on the top, but blended them in... but we look at the ads as a way to pay for the service, not to make a living) <p>Hello folks,</p> <p>This month was a very expensive for userscripts.org - instead of the normal couple of hundred dollar server; we paid for 3 servers (ending up costing $500 more than normal due to faulty hardware and bad timing). </p> <p>The good news is that the new server is MUCH faster, and has 3 times as much ram, and ISN'T crashing :) -- I'd really like a couple weeks of my life back dealing with those issues...</p> <p>If you are a geek you can always check out <a href="http://munin.userscripts.org/">munin</a> - before the upgrade we would start swapping after a few days of running the app servers.</p> <p><b>Ads</b> - I've tweaked the ads a bunch. First I made it so that if you are logged in then you don't see them at all :) Secondly, I added <b>adbrite</b> which lets anyone sign up for a text link - this is an experiment. Third, I tweaked the colors of the google ads a bit.</p> <p>I've not yet, but I will put a nice labeled div around all the ads, so if you want to greasemonkey/userstyle them out of existence even if you aren't logged in, then you can - of course I figured if you really care, you would be using ad-block anyway ;)</p> <p>Please let me know if any of this is offensive, we've been keeping the ads as far out of the way as we can (heck, google even emailed us saying we should be making MUCH more if we put and ad on the top, but blended them in... but we look at the ads as a way to pay for the service, not to make a living)</p> 2007-08-05T05:41:29Z 3 Forum 3513 853 2007-08-05T05:47:58Z 2