dear allakhazam staff,
i understand and appreciate the fact that you need to make money. i currently do not have the funds available to support your "premium" service. however i'd like to beg you to change advertisers. i don't mind banner ads heck sometimes you find something cool. However here are my reasons why
1. out of the 80% of the time i am at your site i am waiting for the advertisers website to respond.
2. the web browser i use (opera) either is waiting for content from your page or waiting for the content from the advertiser before finish displaying the page. i understand this isnt your fault it is a design of the browser.
3. because of 1 and 2 i often stop loading a page and hit the reload button to get a faster advertiser's web server.
4. because of 3 your network bandwidth INCREASES, this will increase your costs of business requiring you to either seek additional advertising or charge more for premium services.
5. because of the increase of premium services less people will sign up.
6. because less people sign up you eventually either strictly rely on banner ads or you go out of buisness.
7. because of the long dely waiting for advertising websites you make it worth my wild to invest time in looking into setting up apache to serve up a 1x1 pixel no matter what has been requested to speed up page loads.
8. because of 7 you lose advertising dollars.
i only state this because i enjoy this site and the forums and the use the info here almost religously. i WANT you to stay in buisness. like i said if i had the cash i would pay you for the premium services.
Sincerly yours,
Musikit
Concerned poster