On 12/31/05, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The 'server strain' argument occurs only because exponential
growth has been
seen. WP _has not_ crumbled under the strain. Traffic seems
It's the only site I have regularly used in the last couple of years
which as a normal part of usage puts up "Server experiencing
difficulties, come back lately". I get that message on WP pretty much
every day during certain hours. And that's not to mention some of the
more esoteric messages like edits being disabled, the DB being out of
sync etc. I would *much* rather have ads than put up with server
unavailability.
That is a pretty good argument for ads yes. I still don't know myself, I do
really like it that wp is ad free.
Perhaps we should use Google ads on Wikipedia. Daniel Brandt will have a
field day with that one. :)
Garion