Beginning to test Amazon ads this weekend.

[bunni]

It's not the extra files sitting on the servers that are an issue, storage is cheap. It's the shear number of pageviews we're pushing out and the number of images that are on each page. I'd rather pony up for better hardware than limit page size though - I never want to make the content worse.

Also deleting talk pages etc doesn't actually make the database smaller, as mediawiki still saves all that so we can revert back to it if ever necessary. It would help readability of the talk pages though. The text database is actually relatively small - it's all the images that soak up the storage space.

Large PNGs do kill the pages however. They're slow to load and suck up a ton of bandwidth. The ironic thing about PNG is that at the same file size PNG is clearer than JPG with fewer compression artifacts... but the configuration to get that doesn't seem to be intuitive for people.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by bunni

It's not the extra files sitting on the servers that are an issue, storage is cheap. It's the shear number of pageviews we're pushing out and the number of images that are on each page. I'd rather pony up for better hardware than limit page size though - I never want to make the content worse.

Also deleting talk pages etc doesn't actually make the database smaller, as mediawiki still saves all that so we can revert back to it if ever necessary. It would help readability of the talk pages though. The text database is actually relatively small - it's all the images that soak up the storage space.

Large PNGs do kill the pages however. They're slow to load and suck up a ton of bandwidth. The ironic thing about PNG is that at the same file size PNG is clearer than JPG with fewer compression artifacts... but the configuration to get that doesn't seem to be intuitive for people.

Ah thanks! Bunni. But when we do a mass backup, which we do a lot, doesn't the smaller talk pages for each backup have the cumulative effect of less data to store?

I just hope we don't start replacing my high res gun pics with low res google pics! DOH!

And good thing Bunni missed my comment about everyone donating 10% of their household income to him......

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

And good thing Bunni missed my comment about everyone donating 10% of their household income to him......

My job doesn't even pay that well

[S&Wshooter]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

My job doesn't even pay that well

I don't even have a damn job. I guess I can send it 10% of nothing

[BurtReynoldsMoustache]

Originally Posted by S&Wshooter

I don't even have a damn job. I guess I can send it 10% of nothing

I'm already sending 100%.

[bunni]

Originally Posted by BurtReynoldsMoustache

I'm already sending 100%.

And I can't thank you enough.

[bunni]

I'm bumping this thread to let you guys know you'll begin seeing amazon ads on some pages over the next week or so. Let me know if you run into formatting/display issues so I can have them corrected.