• Posted 12/19/2024.
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    I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?

    So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.

    But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.

    Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.

    I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.

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    Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.

    And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
  • Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

Scheduled down time for server - 03/15/2022 - 03/16/2022

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Just got this email from my server host.

As part of our continued commitment to providing the best possible service to our clients, it is required that we perform routine maintenance on our networking systems.

Generally routine maintenance requires seconds of downtime that is barely noticed by our clients or is not noticeable at all due to the redundancy built into the network. However, once in a while, more extensive maintenance work is required where more extensive downtime is required.

A number of pieces of networking hardware used to connect each server from our racks to our core network is now at end of life and to ensure that we continue to provide the uptime and reliability that you are used to, we will be replacing the networking hardware used to connect your server(s) to our core network.

These maintenance works will require us to physically unplug all hardware and servers from the network temporarily, while the old hardware is removed and the new hardware installed.

We will be undertaking this hardware replacement at the following date/time:

Start Date/Time: March 15 2022 11pm MST time (GMT-7)
End Date/Time: March 16 2022 5am MST time (GMT-7)

We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. During this time, you will see your website, VPS, or server go offline. We anticipate that your website, VPS or server will be offline, twice, for up to 30 minutes at a time.
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Well, when it rains, it pours, apparently.

It has come to our attention from our hardware supplier that there is a critical security update to the BIOS of the motherboard of your system. We will be working to patch all of the affected systems over the following period:

Start Date/Time: March 15 2022 11pm MST time (GMT-7)
End Date/Time: March 18 2022 7am MST time (GMT-7)

The wide maintenance window above is to cater for the fact we have clients in a large range of timezones. Please note that we will generally apply the update to your server between the hours of 11pm and 6am in your local timezone.

While your system is being updated, you will see up to 30 minutes of downtime.
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