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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #15 - May 9^th, 2020 at 9:47am PS: I run Adblocker and see no ads here. Not inclined to remove ad blocker either.
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Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from.
Reply #16 - May 9^th, 2020 at 9:47am

I have not seen anything yet to convert a YaBB forum to a database style forum, so we would start afresh, and keep this one online somewhere as a read only thing.

We had a lot more issues with the site going offline back when we were on a VPS. Sometimes it was me who requested the reboot or whatever the fix was. But it has definitely been a lot better since the upgrade. Not enough to justify the expense but.

I will look into making the ads work, then consider my options in terms of downgrading the hosting and switch the forum software. I have only heard that report about resource consumption from one person, so I am still a bit skeptical about it.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #17 - May 9^th, 2020 at 9:56am More members would make the ads produce more revenue. Getting rid of the PA board here would reduce processor cycles. Is there an intermediate step between shared and dedicated servers?
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #18 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:00am I am about to move from phbBB3.3 to paid-for software. I have added an enhanced search module—cost me a bit over $200 and I will need to pay a small sum yearly to be able to receive support, download updates etc. Will be good. Just waiting for a phpBB3.3 migration module.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95471 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #19 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:03am Jovial Monk wrote on May 9^th, 2020 at 9:56am: More members would make the ads produce more revenue. Getting rid of the PA board here would reduce processor cycles. Is there an intermediate step between shared and dedicated servers? Monk would love to get rid of the real PA board.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #20 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:05am You can all move to Naffy’s board.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #21 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:12am PA costs nothing to run. It's YaBB that chews up the CPU.
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Reply #22 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:15am

It does use processor cycles and bandwidth and produces only trouble on OzPol. Why not put ads in the PA board? Then at least it does something for the whole site.

GMods meddling in MRBs is going to send OzPol on another downward turn as are ads within posts.

As to less trouble on the dedicated server—this place goes down more often than my place.

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #23 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:18am Will you at least look at reducing the size and clutter of the front page here? It is offputting to new members.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #24 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:35am I look at it every day.
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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 43644 Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #25 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:43am Look at as in doing something about it?
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #26 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:50am Look at as in look at.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95471 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #27 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:52am freediver wrote on May 9^th, 2020 at 10:50am: Look at as in look at. Hi FD, I can see you really appreciate Monk's advice.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #28 - May 9^th, 2020 at 10:55am His opinion has been noted and will be taken into consideration.
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Bobby. Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 95471 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Where are these bloody adds coming from. Reply #29 - May 9^th, 2020 at 11:12am freediver wrote on May 9^th, 2020 at 10:55am: His opinion has been noted and will be taken into consideration. That's nice. I will be sorry to lose Ozpolitic in its present form. It's the best Australian forum right now.
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