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  • mariner4lifeM Offline
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    replied to Duluth on last edited by
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    @Duluth said in Slow speed:

    I can see from the logs the bots aren't scraping for rugby.

    what? The most obvious ones are all over the Hurricanes threads

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    #24

    @No-Quarter

    Yes that's basically what we are looking at. Tomorrow hopefully

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  • No QuarterN Offline
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    #25

    Thanks @Duluth lots of grumpy old men on here with more money than sense that I am sure would be willing to help with any additional costs, myself included

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    @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

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    #27

    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

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  • nzzpN Offline
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    #28

    @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

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    @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

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  • KirwanK Offline
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    #30

    Short $38 per month at the moment.

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

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  • nzzpN Offline
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    @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 πŸ™‚

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  • KiwiwombleK Offline
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    #32

    is there a link to the patreon?

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

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    replied to Kiwiwomble on last edited by
    #33

    @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

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  • KirwanK Offline
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    #34

    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

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  • KiwiwombleK Offline
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    wrote on last edited by Kiwiwomble
    #35

    done πŸ‘

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

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

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  • KirwanK Offline
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    @bayimports said in Slow speed:

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

    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.

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    #38

    @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.

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  • DuluthD Offline
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    wrote on last edited by Duluth
    #39

    Some of you might be interested in this:

    Screenshot 2024-05-14 at 1.53.22 PM.png

    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

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  • KiwiwombleK Offline
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    @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?

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  • SmudgeS Do not disturb
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    @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 πŸ™‚

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

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  • nzzpN Offline
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    @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 πŸ™‚

    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

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