Lpc2000

Dont sourceforge and the likes help at all? I was
under the impression that an opensource project had
many places to be online, where charity-funded
providers would mirror them for free. I'm probably
wrong. 

I'll click on your ads for some time, although the ads
are uninteresting. The toolkit itself is the most
interesting bit.


--- Rick Collins <gnuarm@...> wrote:

> Thanks for the offer, but yes, the monthly bandwidth
> is larger than 
> 100 GB.  I thought we were still under that, but I
> checked and we 
> left 100 GB behind some months ago.  
> 
> Originally Pablo worked out hosting with several
> vendors so there 
> would be a main site with mirrors.  But the mirrors
> have not been 
> updated in a long time and the bandwidth on the main
> site is growing 
> all the time.  
> 
> The posts I have been making asking for advice seem
> to have 
> generated enough extra clicks that the finances are
> fine for a 
> while.  It was not my intent to get people to just
> start clicking on 
> the ads randomly since people are paying for those
> clicks and want 
> value for their money.  I was trying to find a way
> to optimize the 
> ads for reader interest.  
> 
> I'll see how the next month goes and see if further
> action is 
> needed. 
> 
> 
> 
> --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Ghazan Haider
> <ghazanhaider@y...> 
> wrote:
> > 
> > What kind of bandwidth and size are we looking at?
> > 
> > I do have a server with plenty of headroom to
> spare.
> > Its a serverpronto server 200GB per mo allowance
> and I
> > generally use around 1% of it on hazara.org. If
> gnuarm
> > doesnt use more than 100GB, its doable.
> > 
> > 
> > --- Rick Collins <gnuarm@a...> wrote:
> > 
> > > --- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, 42Bastian Schick
> > > <bastian42@m...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Rick Collins <gnuarm@a...> schrieb am Sun, 11
> Dec
> > > 2005 19:08:41 -0000:
> > > > 
> > > > > I need to find a way to boost the click
> through
> > > revenue again or I
> > > > > might not be able to keep the pages up.
> > > > 
> > > > How about a small sentence on the download
> page:
> > > > "Please klick one of the ads to help financing
> > > this page."
> > > 
> > > That is actually prohibited by Google.  The idea
> is
> > > that people click
> > > the ads because they are interested in the
> products
> > > and so the
> > > advertisers pay for targeted click throughs
> which
> > > are much more likely
> > > to generate revenue for them.  
> > > 
> > > I'm not looking to mess with Google's
> advertising
> > > business model.  I
> > > would like to find out what type of ads would be
> of
> > > interest to people
> > > visiting the web page.  Maybe I could add some
> text
> > > asking that on the
> > > web page?  
> 
> 
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