Slow speed

[Duluth]

@No-Quarter

Cheers

There's no new costs. We are running at a slight loss though. We'll try to close that gap with ads before begging

[Duluth]

There won't be any downtime today

I made a change earlier today that has helped. Non logged in page views have dropped a lot and the stress on the CPU has eased back

Speed seems almost back to normal

I want to let it run like this for 24 hours to get some better logs. Will do the maintenance later in the week

[nzzp]

@Duluth said in Slow speed:

We'll try to close that gap with ads before begging

How much is the shortfall? I suspect a number of people would make a small contribution than see ads

[Duluth]

@nzzp said in Slow speed:

@Duluth said in Slow speed:

We'll try to close that gap with ads before begging

How much is the shortfall? I suspect a number of people would make a small contribution than see ads

Not much. It still comes out of @Kirwan 's account.. He'll have the exact number

As for ads, anyone who donates won't see them. Will probably have 'awards' to remove ads too.. top 3 of the tipping contest, write quality posts, do good match commentary etc etc

[Kirwan]

Short $38 per month at the moment.

Big thanks to those that are still on Patreon, much appreciated.

[nzzp]

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Big thanks to those that are still on Patreon, much appreciated.

Just updated my contribution to two coffees/month. Come on Ferners, dip in and support. Keep ads away

[Kiwiwomble]

is there a link to the patreon?

fully expects it too be just up the thread but im not going to look

[nzzp]

@Kiwiwomble said in Slow speed:

is there a link to the patreon?

fully expects it too be just up the thread but im not going to look

https://www.patreon.com/thesilverfern/membership

good call - not in the thread

[Kirwan]

Thanks @nzzp, beat me to posting the link. And the support is much apprectiated.

I think the plan is if you donate, no ads. Duluth may throw in other toys, we'll see what's available

[Kiwiwomble]

done

went through using my google account, assume it doesnt really matter if thats different too my normal Silver Fern account

[bayimports]

@Kirwan is there an option to a have a yearly one off donation(easier to explain/hide) option

[Kirwan]

@bayimports said in Slow speed:

@Kirwan is there an option to a have a yearly one off donation(easier to explain/hide) option

Patreon doesn’t allow for one offs, but this is all linked to my PayPal so I can DM that to you?

I’ll make sure Duluth includes you in contributing list.

[Duluth]

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

I think the plan is if you donate, no ads

Yes

Also, if we cover costs without ads there'll be none for anyone.

[Duluth]

Some of you might be interested in this:

Page views by people logged in is the red line. The other line is all the other page views

There's always a lot more people reading than bothering to create an account etc. However this is extreme. The red line is meaningless because it so much smaller

We had huge traffic during the RWC, then dropped back to the regular December numbers. Sometime in January we suddenly got 20million more page views a month.

On May 8th we got another load of bot traffic that's what killed the CPU

A few tweaks and it's dropped to a level the CPUs can handle. Still need to do a few things to get it back to normal though

[Kiwiwomble]

@Duluth said in Slow speed:

We had huge traffic during the RWC, then dropped back to the regular December numbers. Sometime in January we suddenly got 20million more page views a month.

i did feel like i was posting some fire in January....might be that?

[Smudge]

@nzzp said in Slow speed:

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Big thanks to those that are still on Patreon, much appreciated.

Just updated my contribution to two coffees/month. Come on Ferners, dip in and support. Keep ads away

Likewise. $9/month is great value to be able to wind up the Shield Snorters once in a while.

[nzzp]

@Smudge said in Slow speed:

@nzzp said in Slow speed:

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Big thanks to those that are still on Patreon, much appreciated.

Just updated my contribution to two coffees/month. Come on Ferners, dip in and support. Keep ads away

Likewise. $9/month is great value to be able to wind up the Shield Snorters once in a while.

This place has more sporting analysis than three main stream media. It shouldn't be like that but it is

[dogmeat]

MSM has sporting analysis? :astonished_face:

[Nepia]

@Smudge said in Slow speed:

@nzzp said in Slow speed:

@Kirwan said in Slow speed:

Big thanks to those that are still on Patreon, much appreciated.

Just updated my contribution to two coffees/month. Come on Ferners, dip in and support. Keep ads away

Likewise. $9/month is great value to be able to wind up the Shield Snorters once in a while.

Sadly for you lot there's no one left here to wind up aside from me and I find the moral high ground claiming to be as hilarious as you find the winding up.

I'm happy to make non Patreon donation, but weary of Patreon as I signed up originally and money left my account but didn't go to the Fern, then when I queried Patreon they claimed it was because I was Oz registered but on NZ card and took me ages to refund my money. @Kirwan Does the Paypal link require a paypal account? If it does can I direct transfer to your bank?

Maybe I'll tie my donation to the removal of the "Shield Snorters" on behalf of my fellow Bay peeps.

[NTA]

@Nepia said in Slow speed:

Maybe I'll tie my donation to the removal of the "Shield Snorters" on behalf of my fellow Bay peeps.

Vengeance payments. Nice