It turns out that all those months I said "saturdays were silent days", they weren't silent after all. It was because my logrotate program rotated the webserver logs every Saturday before webalizer had a chance to read the final statistics of that day, that the numbers appeared so low.
So I fixed it now. Anyway...
In January 2006
- Globally on my webserver, there were 3179409 hits, 52.0 GB of traffic, with average of 4273 hits per hour.
1.5M hits in the name of Mozilla, 1.4M in the name of MSIE and 100k hits in the name of Opera.
In this month, Spezzafer's Mario 64 video finally hit the world, and with the aid of Google Videos, many other classics from Nesvideos became very popular.
Total unique sites: 135776
At the last day of January, I also upgraded the server hardware. Many thanks to those who donated! Many thanks to those who will :)
w00t, thanks for telling me about this! I'm abroad and I don't have any access to bittorrent or emulators so I haven't been able to view any movies lately. Now I can enjoy them!
Joined: 4/21/2004
Posts: 3518
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Today, I recieved 100/100 connection and all I can say is: HOT DAMN!! Wow, it really goes fast both for downloading and uploading. With this announcement, I hope Bisqwit will send me some big future runs (like Acrytes future Ocarina of Time TAS) to me so I can host them for him :)
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
Arc wrote:
I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
In February 2006
- Globally on my webserver, there were 2528718 hits, 41.8 GB of traffic, with average of 3762 hits per hour.
1.3M hits in the name of Mozilla, 1.1M in the name of MSIE.
In this month, there were a few days with some downtime problems. Turns out that a possible reason was the ADSL modem overheating. It has been more stable now that I improved the airflow of the modem by removing its cover.
Total unique sites: 105930
In February, the total monetary amount of donations received by the Nesvideos website doubled. The server-upgrade budget has now been 17% donate-paid. Many thanks to those who donated! Many thanks to those who will :)
Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
Great to hear you got paid back a bit. I feel bad whenever I realize how much traffic you're hosting.
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Joined: 3/9/2004
Posts: 4588
Location: In his lab studying psychology to find new ways to torture TASers and forumers
Warp wrote:
OTOH it's not like he is paying per transferred byte...
So because of that people shouldn't donate to keep the server up to par with the amount of serving it has to do?
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In March 2006
- Globally on my webserver, there were 3081897 hits, 74.4 GB of traffic(*), with average of 4142 hits per hour.
1.4M hits in the name of Mozilla, 1.3M in the name of MSIE.
In this month, I experimented with Google Adsense.
However, at April 1st, I received this e-mail from Google, sent at Friday 31th.
Google AdSense wrote:
Hello Joel Yliluoma,
It has come to our attention that invalid clicks have been generated on
the Google ads on your site(s). We have therefore disabled your Google
AdSense account. Please understand that this step was taken in an
effort to protect the interest of the AdWords advertisers.
A publisher's site may not have invalid clicks on any ad(s), including
but not limited to clicks generated by:
- a publisher on his own web pages
- a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads
- automated clicking programs or any other deceptive software
- a publisher altering any portion of the ad code or changing the
layout, behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads for any reason
Practices such as these are in violation of the Google AdSense Terms
and Conditions and program polices, which can be viewed at:
https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms?hl=en_UShttps://www.google.com/adsense/policies?hl=en_US
Publishers disabled for invalid click activity are not allowed further
participation in AdSense and do not receive any further payment. The
earnings on your account will be properly returned to the affected
advertisers.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team
I had Google Ads on my site for 6 days, collecting about $21 of virtual money. Apparently, I won't be seeing a cent of it.
As soon as I read the e-mail, I sent a query to Google asking for details regarding this incident. Because it is still the week-end, I do not know yet what is happening.
Worst-case scenario is that they ignore me, and I remain banned from Google AdSense without exactly clue why, without receiving anything from them.
The best-case scenario is that they notice some misinterpretation in their results and fix things, and don't reset my statistics.
Nevertheless, at least this weekend didn't gain a cent.
Possible reasons:
- Someone has roboted the ad links and they noticed it. Ergo, I suffer.
- They got annoyed when I did a "wget <address>" once to observe the source code. Ergo, I suffer. (I explained this in the e-mail I sent to them)
- They got annoyed of the "Google Ads - Yay or Nay" poll, interpreting it as attempting to influence the click ratios. Ergo, I suffer.
On the plus side, my connections have worked nicely this month. Apparently heat (of the ADSL modem) was the killer for this particular model.
Total unique sites: 129614
*) This month, I tried transferring my backup files through HTTP. One of those backup files was a 4 GiB file. For some reason, attempting to transfer it with HTTP gave a 0-byte reply, but the server still logged an entire 4 GiB data transfer. I did this 8 times before giving up. Therefore, the data amount contains 32 gigabytes of inflation.
The best-case scenario is that they notice some misinterpretation in their results and fix things, and don't reset my statistics.
Let's hope that that's what'll happen. :/ But the rules seem really strict to me, too - particularly, the "a publisher encouraging others to click on his ads" one.
Oh well. Are there any other advertising networks using text ads that you could utilise if Google refuses to re-enable your account?
I had Google Ads on my site for 6 days, collecting about $21 of virtual money. Apparently, I won't be seeing a cent of it.
I've heard about this happening to several other sites as well. Apparently, just as they are paying out, even if they've got the slightest suspicion, they just drop the plan without giving any reason or evidence for it happening. It's not happening enough that there's really any noticeable pattern, but it does seem like Google may be a bit too afraid of paying out.
In April 2006
- Globally on my webserver, there were 2862776 hits, 52.5 GB of traffic, with average of 3976 hits per hour.
1.35M hits in the name of Mozilla, 1.17M in the name of MSIE.
In this month, I had to accept that Google Adsense will ignore me and I had to ignore them. No revenue was received for the week I had AdSense on my site. They closed my contract completely one-sidedly.
The four most active referrers for the Nesvideos site of this month were, in this order:
- Google search
- Google Videos
- Google image search
- http://kmkm.info/
Total unique sites: 108024
Besides the 52 GB of webserver traffic, there was about twice that amount of BitTorrent traffic (only partially because of Nesvideos though).
(But, I am not paying for consumed traffic; the pay is about the available transfer speed, regardless of utilization.)
In May 2006
- Globally on my webserver, there were 3030192 hits, 54.7 GB of traffic, with average of 4072 hits per hour.
1.5M hits in the name of Mozilla, 1.15M in the name of MSIE.
Total unique sites: 113816
The domain name tasvideos.org was bought for 3 years for price of ~$30, IIRC.
Silly old Europeans hanging onto their old silly ways!
How can you even know how long a centimeter is? There's no furlongs!
What's a dozen in metric? A metric dozen???
The King's thumb is one inch. What is it in metric land? The size of MetricMan's eyebrows?
Join the modern world and give up Metrocity.
(Quotes taken from episode 16 of Tiki Bar TV.)
<Swordless> Go hug a tree, you vegetarian (I bet you really are one)
Joined: 8/1/2004
Posts: 2687
Location: Seattle, WA
Bag of Magic Food wrote:
But you can buy a home to live in for life, can't you? So why do you have to rent your own part of the Internet?
There are some countries (read: USA) that still charge you for a house that you have bought in its entirety. Just consider the internet as a weird extension of real estate, with the ICANN expressing real estate from its national view.
