• 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.

Web Hosting for FaunaClassifieds members

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I have just set up another server to use so I can offer web hosting services to anyone whom might be interested. I JUST got this set up and have two people hosting it already. But I haven't had time to set up an order form page or anything of that nature.

Roughly, here's what I am offering:

  • 200 mb of hard drive space
  • 10 gb monthly traffic
  • {option}Domain registration (yourname.com) setup for $25 plus $20 per year
  • {option}SSL certificate for $110 per year
  • Listing on front page of FaunaClassifieds.com
  • Full CPanel tools and utilities.

<h2>cPanel Features List</h2>
Complete Skinable User Interface

Backup
  • Backup
  • Restore

Mail
  • Manage Email Accounts (Add, Remove, Change Password)
  • WebMail for all Accounts
  • Auto Responders
  • Custom Mail Filtering
  • Forwaders
  • Mailing Lists (mailman)
  • Ability to Modify an MX Entry
  • Spam Filtering
Stats
  • Webalizer Web Stats
  • Webalizer Ftp Stats
  • Analog Stats
  • View Latest Visitors
  • View Bandwidth Usage
  • View Error Log
  • Download a raw logfile
Ftp
  • Manage Ftp Accounts (Add, Remove, Change Password)
  • Anonymous Ftp Control
  • Ability to change ftp login message
  • Ability to kill ftp sessions
Site Tools
  • Web Protect (htaccess editor)
  • Ability to Change Site and Frontpage password
  • Custom Error Pages
  • Redirects
  • Ability to Edit Mime Types
  • Ability to Edit Apache Handlers
  • Install Frontpage Extensions
  • Uninstall Frontpage Extensions
  • Search Engine Submit Tool
  • File Manager
Subdomains
  • Ability to Add/Remove Subdomains
  • Subdomain Redirects
  • Stats for Subdomains
Advanced Tools
  • SSH access
  • Manage GPG Keys
  • Cron Jobs
Pre-Installed Cgi Scripts
  • Interchange Cart
  • Agora Cart
  • XMB Bulletin Board
  • Java Chat
  • Html Chat
  • phpMyChat
  • Cgi Wrapper (for non-suexec installs)
  • Random HTML Generator
  • Advanced Guestbook
  • Counter Generator
  • Java Clock Generator
  • Java Countdown Generator
  • Secure FormMail clone
  • cgiemail
  • Entropy Search
  • Entropy Banner
Network Tools
  • Dns Lookup
  • Traceroute
Database Managment
  • Manage Mysql Databases (Add, Remove, Change Password, Add Access Hosts)
  • phpMyAdmin Access


Online order form for domain hosting


Base charge per month for hosting will be $10. Hosting for two years will be $200. There is a $25 setup fee for each hosted account.

If interested, drop me an email or PM. If you don't know how to do any of this stuff, ask me and I will help you out.

Thanks!
 
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I currently have two people hosting on this new server I set up, and the throughput seems very quick.

If you want to check out one of them, take a look at SnakesOfNorthFlorida .

I will be limiting the number of domains on the server, so this is available on a first come/first served basis.

Thanks!
 
Rich, any chance you have a basic needs type option?

I don't get a ton of traffic, I could pay angelfire $5 a month or someplace else like godaddy $5-$7 a month. I'd rather give you the money, you should come up with something cheap or very basic and free for people who don't mind your banner ads. That might help with banner traffic and then money?
 
Heck, Adam. Thanks for bringing this thread to my attention. I actually had a different price on my FaunaNet site but didn't reflect that here. I am charging $10 per month for hosting with all of those option listed above. If you will commit to 2 years, I will charge $200, which comes to something like $8.33 per month.

I have edited this thread to reflect those changed prices.

I think that is a pretty good deal, myself. Especially considering what I am paying for these servers. I didn't get cheap stuff! The servers I got are the hottest ones out there.

Drop me an email and we can discuss this further there.

Thanks.
 
I have my website hosted with Rich myself, and I must say I have been very pleased with all the features and the two year option is indeed a good deal.

I didn't imagine all the bells and whistles that could actually be available from a web host. With my former host I had FTP access and one domain email, and that's all I knew existed.
After switching my hosting over to FaunaNet I spent the first month just playing with everything that suddenly became available.
It was exactly like sitting down in front of a modern computer with all the lastest programs with your only previous experience being Pong from the 70s, for those of you old enough to remember that.
CPanel is a great tool that offers a multitude of fuctionality.
 
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