My opinion on ad blocking

The more annoying the ad, the more likely it will be blocked. Like CPA networks, they claim they are unblockable, but I block them. it is easier to develop a bypass for that. The surveys only give you spam (and/or $10/week sms messages) and don’t say you did it even after finishing it. Then you get to the sites with so many ads that you have to cut off the computer to close the site because they have so many flash ads on them. Now, if you want to insert some text ads in the page with some php then I don’t care. Blocking that would just waste CPU and time. When you are getting ads from a really slow remote server I will blacklist that ad network till next reload of my DNS server. I also block things like Google Analytics because they slow down the page.

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HostRail

I have been using one of HostRail’s VPSs for a little longer than a week. I have had no downtime on the VPS the whole time I have had it. On a test download I did, I was getting 11.1 MBps (megaytes, not megabits) which is the fastest I have seen a download over a 100mbps connection go. This is the same speed I get over my home network copying between 2 computers.

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Wifi

wifi:

enet:

Same internet connection, same server, same computer. Just WiFi vs Ethernet

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Hosting…

I am so sick of changing web hosts. In the past 1.5 months I have moved all of my worthwhile sites of mine 4 times. Now this is not as simple as downloading a backup and uploading it to another host and change the nameservers. When a host fails it means reinstalling the software and then uploading a backup of the database on top of the blank database. Then dealing with all the images being missing because I don’t have a easy way of backing them up.

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CPALead Bypass IP change (Again)

The new ip isĀ 98.142.209.5

See the original post for instructions

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