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First let me make this clear: this decision is the result of lengthy discussions between the three admins and all staff.
Secondly, yes, as of today there are a few Google AdSense placements on the portal, but before reading any further please take into account that these adverts WILL ONLY BE VISIBLE TO GUESTS. If you are logged in to your GBAtemp account which you get by registering for free, you will NOT ever see any adverts except our affiliated partners which have been with us for years. Let me guarantee to you that our treasured community of members will never be the ones made to suffer.
Anyway, as you may have noticed, lately GBAtemp has been suffering from minor and major slow downs right down to being completely offline. This happens not only during high traffic periods such as popular game releases, but even during non-peak times. Quite frankly, we don't think this is fair on our members. GBAtemp is an information resource and when we're not there for you, we're failing at what we do and not bringing in the new members that could contribute to our site.
In order to cope with the constant increase in visitors, registrations, posts and server hammering "F5'ers"; we've had to upgrade the server hardware and hosting plan countless times. In the last 3 years we've had over 6 different server and hosting set-ups, each considerably more powerful and expensive.
You may have recently noticed a massive increase in the speed at which the site runs, this is due to a number of optimisations and further hardware upgrades. But this all comes at a cost, and being a non-profit site we're unable to pay for all of it from the little money GBAtemp makes. Myself, Costello and Ace Gunman would love to be able to pay for the upgrades from our own pockets, but the truth is we're all financially unstable, and have normal full-time jobs to attend to and a number of bills to pay. The staff spend countless hours and days of our free time working on GBAtemp in order to better serve you.
We're currently trialling AdSense to see if it is a worthwhile investment. It may prove to be a complete failure in which case we'll either go back to how we were, or look into alternatives.
What will we do with the money if AdSense pays off? Besides paying off bills, and getting a new secondary server, we're looking into a number of things for our future and we already have a few exciting changes coming soon, and a large number of ideas in the pipeline. We're always looking to expand and reward our community and staff who work so hard.
I'll update this post with any answers to questions you have, and any more information if I've missed anything...
But please remember, as long as you are a registered member on our site, you will not be affected by anything. These changes are only being made to people who visit our site, hammer it and leave without contributing a thing to our community. We will make it clearer to guests that the adverts will be gone once they register an account.
We hope you've noticed the increased speeds over the last two days, and will stay tuned for further improvements once we get our new server and projects complete
Thanks for your understanding.
PS. Please don't think clicking the links for us is a good idea, it's done by unique clicks so any more than once is asking for trouble as Google are quite severe on sites who encourage their users to click the ads, and we may end up getting them taken down.
Secondly, yes, as of today there are a few Google AdSense placements on the portal, but before reading any further please take into account that these adverts WILL ONLY BE VISIBLE TO GUESTS. If you are logged in to your GBAtemp account which you get by registering for free, you will NOT ever see any adverts except our affiliated partners which have been with us for years. Let me guarantee to you that our treasured community of members will never be the ones made to suffer.
Anyway, as you may have noticed, lately GBAtemp has been suffering from minor and major slow downs right down to being completely offline. This happens not only during high traffic periods such as popular game releases, but even during non-peak times. Quite frankly, we don't think this is fair on our members. GBAtemp is an information resource and when we're not there for you, we're failing at what we do and not bringing in the new members that could contribute to our site.
In order to cope with the constant increase in visitors, registrations, posts and server hammering "F5'ers"; we've had to upgrade the server hardware and hosting plan countless times. In the last 3 years we've had over 6 different server and hosting set-ups, each considerably more powerful and expensive.
You may have recently noticed a massive increase in the speed at which the site runs, this is due to a number of optimisations and further hardware upgrades. But this all comes at a cost, and being a non-profit site we're unable to pay for all of it from the little money GBAtemp makes. Myself, Costello and Ace Gunman would love to be able to pay for the upgrades from our own pockets, but the truth is we're all financially unstable, and have normal full-time jobs to attend to and a number of bills to pay. The staff spend countless hours and days of our free time working on GBAtemp in order to better serve you.
We're currently trialling AdSense to see if it is a worthwhile investment. It may prove to be a complete failure in which case we'll either go back to how we were, or look into alternatives.
What will we do with the money if AdSense pays off? Besides paying off bills, and getting a new secondary server, we're looking into a number of things for our future and we already have a few exciting changes coming soon, and a large number of ideas in the pipeline. We're always looking to expand and reward our community and staff who work so hard.
I'll update this post with any answers to questions you have, and any more information if I've missed anything...
But please remember, as long as you are a registered member on our site, you will not be affected by anything. These changes are only being made to people who visit our site, hammer it and leave without contributing a thing to our community. We will make it clearer to guests that the adverts will be gone once they register an account.
We hope you've noticed the increased speeds over the last two days, and will stay tuned for further improvements once we get our new server and projects complete
Thanks for your understanding.
PS. Please don't think clicking the links for us is a good idea, it's done by unique clicks so any more than once is asking for trouble as Google are quite severe on sites who encourage their users to click the ads, and we may end up getting them taken down.
