Adware Junk on Xtreme Systems Forums?

[FrogBite]

It´s blocked by me. Try changing your KAV settings if you don´t want to see it.

[T_M]

XS has been buggy as hell for me at work and at home ever since yesterday.
Last night i even gave up trying to get pages to load and went and cried in my pillow instead.

[hixie]

Site + hosting & Domain not that much....

Right.....

Ok, Domain registration:
20 dollars yearly or so per TLD.
Now since Xs is running a dedicated box we take a look at hardware cost:
Server cost:
minimum of say... 1500 dollars from the frame & basic CPU's.
Ram amount: 32 Gb
HDD Space: terrabyte or 2 i guess
Swap Disks :
Raid some SAS Drives, 15k RPM,... lets say a good 5000 dollars for a good professional SAS Drive setup
Bandwidth costs:
This forum sucks bandwidth like there is no tomorrow so we are easely looking at 100GB of Bandwidth per month, if not LOADS more.
Co location for the server in a data center : 200 dollar per month

Tally that up and your hardware cost alone would around the 15K US dollar mark (if not WAY more)
Upkeep cost of colocation:
200 dollars monthly
Bandwidth costs:
100GB a month at the bare minimum, I'll do a longshot and say like 100 dollars

Now, keep in mind Xs is BIG, the entire MySQL database behind this thing is prolly a few gigabytes big, the attachements directory even bigger...

the serverload is probably pretty immense and well and there is NO WAY you can ever classify running a site like Xs as "not THAT much".

You left one thing mate,
One amazing forum = PRICELESS

[RaZz!]

first of all: these are simple adbanners. adware is smth completely different...

and yes, fugger said he'd include some ads to gain some money for xs. in general i'm fine with it. especially because one is able to just "minimize" the banner on the right. and the one on top of the page isn't flashy that it'd annoy me

on the other hand i have to agree that xs is extremely slow for the last couple of days.

OK here's an opinion:
Shrink the banner a little, or enlarge the XS logo. The XS logo doesn't fill up the height space up there so it looks dwarfed!

agreed

*edit*
did some testing and the long loadtimes of the site are indeed related to the ads. with ff3 and adblock plus, which removes the adds, the pages load instantly, while the page loads up to 10 seconds without adblock plus.

ok, as much i think ads are ok, this slowdowns really kill the usability of xs...

[saveus222]

i clicked.. anything for XS doesnt XS have a donations option.. ?? then ppl who are rich enough can donate...??

[Kondik]

No Ad's for Donators button preffered here.
I'd rather give XS $50 to not to watch , need to block the ad's than having them there

[twwen2]

I'm not opposed to generating some revenue for XS, but it has really slowed the site down, at least on my connection!

[Nosfer@tu]

If you get frustrated by save the planet and save children adds, Go get a cup of Te and a cigaret

[SnW]

LOL at some of the complaints..... \looks at most peoples sig parts

[Slovnaft]

Oh Noez, my ads are gone! white boxes are makeing mie uncomfortable!

[ownage]

Ads are disappeared?
I don't mind the ads, i'm glad enough that Fugger keeps XS in the air. Most people have no idea what it costs to keep such a website online.

[gogos7]

Opening threads is taking a lot of time!

Some time they stuck and never open... (IE7)

[WrigleyVillain]

No performance differences here

[makaka]

Yield manager is the poorest online banner available , if fugger agree i can propose somethings better without all those spayware / adware and witch will make 10-15x better than Yield manager using the same banner ,
Anyone know how can contact it ??

[Scubar]

Im usind Adblock Plus with the Easylist subscription and they are blocked out perfectly for me

No white boxes no nothing just normal browsing.

[Martijn]

Im usind Adblock Plus with the Easylist subscription and they are blocked out perfectly for me

No white boxes no nothing just normal browsing.

ABP works just fine

I don't give a crap about standard ads, but the 'OMG! YOU WON!' flashing bling thing ads piss the hell out of me

[sobol]

It's clear that those ad's doesn't feet the XS layout at all.
I usually don't mind them but those looks really ugly on grey bg collour.

I'd say remove them and add donation with progress bar on required
money each month.

Otherwise this will look like Mercedes AMG with garden tools ad on it, LAME

[Tonucci]

As long as it does not make "blip" sounds, Im ok with it.



With that said, I am the proud winner and Im going to collect my prize, cya !

[Millyons]

I dont post much but i do follow quite a few threads and news every day

This honestly makes the site look super sleezy, i understand the need for revenue, but cmon, it looks like the worst torrent or warez site, i already had #1 Colledge girls with them half naked and stuff like that. (not that i have anything agains that but i am sure all of here can find that content easly on the web if we wanted) and that certanly wouldnt be the time i wanted to check out XS and have my 4 year old kid around me.

I'm sure alot would argue with me but why not just stick manifacturers and computer stores adds like alot of the sites do, especialy that this is a forum not as much a review site. Im sure none of us would thing Fugger is biased towards abit if their add was flashing above nor would that change the opinions of people on this forum. and im sure NewEggs add would generate way more clicks from here then the fishes in pond for the #1 screensavers, i would honestly be afraid of browser hijacks and spyware if i clicked some of the adds that are flipping.

[illidan]

this is bad... so bad... hope that it will be gone soon

[sobol]

I dont post much but i do follow quite a few threads and news every day

This honestly makes the site look super sleezy, i understand the need for revenue, but cmon, it looks like the worst torrent or warez site, i already had #1 Colledge girls with them half naked and stuff like that. (not that i have anything agains that but i am sure all of here can find that content easly on the web if we wanted) and that certanly wouldnt be the time i wanted to check out XS and have my 4 year old kid around me.

I'm sure alot would argue with me but why not just stick manifacturers and computer stores adds like alot of the sites do, especialy that this is a forum not as much a review site. Im sure none of us would thing Fugger is biased towards abit if their add was flashing above nor would that change the opinions of people on this forum. and im sure NewEggs add would generate way more clicks from here then the fishes in pond for the #1 screensavers, i would honestly be afraid of browser hijacks and spyware if i clicked some of the adds that are flipping.

100x props to this post and the proposition.

[Sparky]

this is bad... so bad... hope that it will be gone soon

The K&N one isn't too bad but the other two... yikes.

Now I'm starting to see slowdowns too, waiting for ad.yieldmanager

[higgins]

haha damnit i get these bleeping noises from the ads.. kinda like radar scanning sounds.. bleep.. .bleep... bleep... maybe its just my computer though hmm

[RaZz!]

As long as it does not make "blip" sounds, Im ok with it.



With that said, I am the proud winner and Im going to collect my prize, cya !

i already had quite a lot ads here with sound. one crazy ad with a shaking windows messagebox ("check your computer now") and every 3 secs a "bling". "bling"... naaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr

these ads here on xs are gettin worse and worse

atm i'm looking at a best online casino ad and before that some kissing girls "find nr 1 college girls"... rofl. (ah, illidan already took a picture of thah one )

*edit* the ad with the sound and shaking msgbox:


wahh, enough of that blingbling sound. it's driving me crazy... adblock for the win.

but if everyone is using adblock due to these annoying ads, the intention to use ads to get some revenue just failed. ;/

[grimpy]

Seems sluggish and slow for me.