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All the ad's from 3rd parties are disabled for supporting members. You will still see the ones from the Site Sponsors. All the ads on the left side and footer are removed for supporting members.

 

There is a limit, and it's tough to find a balance between making a living and not annoying everyone.

When I compare M/A with other forums there is much less advertising on M/A than most other forums that are run for fun and profit. I use that and other indicators as a guide as to how much I might be able to get away with. Part of it my own fault. I could put in less outside advertising if I didn't curate the direct advertising to prevent less than the best in the MINI realm. This is why you only see folks like Way, Motoring Magic, Helix, Detroit Tuned, eMINIparts and the like on M/A.

Then again, Supporting Members see very little advertising.

 

Now that's an incentive of which I was not aware.

 

Position of the moon has nothing to do with it. It's being investigated and will shortly be proven that the Talosians on Talos IV are to blame for the many perceived data processing anomalies being observed here on Earth.

 

All good here, with Google Ad Blocker in full effect (blocking my own ads:eek6.

 

That must be my problem - not enough fiber in my Internet diet.

 

It's getting time that I need to hire someone to clean and make the bits all clean and shiny again.

 

Why wait until then? You could charge five bucks a head for people to come see Isobell in your garage now. And think of what autographed Isobell T-shirts, hats and halter tops could sell for!

 

Site is a bit slow today 4/2/15 at around noonish eastern.

Trying to diagnose and fix the issue.

 

LOL!

I'm not going to charge people to see my work, I like to share what I have done with everybody!
But you pretty much nailed it... I have had to dip into my Dragon $$$ a couple times in the last month, just to get her there!

 

Oy, found another issue. An old domain I had given up but didn't remove from the server had been compromised sending lots of spam out, not to M/A folks. The domain had nothing to do with MINIs. The domain was http://buysellferrari.com/

This was slowing the server down. I've fixed that, killed off the domain from the server and wiped all those files. There server is much more responsive now.

 

You almost posted your problem and the reason in one sentence. :lol: CrapaTalk

 

Me too - the workaround is to just paste the link into the copy directly, without hitting the icon first.

 

Hmm. I've never had the issue, but am pretty sure it's a minor issue that Nathan can easily address. Drop him a note and let him know of your problems.

 

It's been working fine for me, maybe the issue is with your ISP? Are you having issues on any other sites?

 

I've been seeing no speed issues. I was doing some database optimizing earlier this evening. That may have slowed things for a bit.

What sort of device are you using?

 

It has been slow for me especially loading anything flash like a youtube video or an ad. But I put it down to something with my browser Firefox 35.0.1 and the flash plugin.

 

Whereas this is an accurate general description of me, I've not had nor am I having any performance problems with the MA site.

 

I had some problems last night too - the page would load about 10 percent, stop for a few seconds and then slowly load the rest of the page. I attributed it to the position of the moon and the gods of the Internet punishing me for something I posted here. :wink: It's running fine now.