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Well, I’ve done it.

I have signed up for an Adsense account and plastered my blog with hideous advertisements.

The server that hosts zzq im and phonese2 is starting to run out of RAM. I can’t add any more RAM to the server pronto dedicated server that I use to host these things because the package I use (AMD Value) maxes out at 512M. I have to upgrade to AMD Power ($70/mo) to pay them money to put some more RAM in it.

At this point I’m thinking it’s going to be better to buy my own server and use their colocation services to host these services. It’s only $35/mo to colocate a server with them so now I just need to come up with the couple grand to buy a real server.

Well the zzq im service isn’t thaat popular and phonese2 isn’t awesome by any means, so I have a hard time justifying $70/mo or $x,xxx for a server (plus a lot to ship) so this is where the ads come in.

Some of my blog posts are popular among the google searches pil on os x for one), so maybe I’ll get a nickle or two.

When phonese3 releases they will probably have ads on them too. I would like to make it last.fm style where you can donate $5/mo to remove the ads from your page for everyone and everyone’s page for you, but that will be a future feature.

Hopefully this will offset some of the cost of the snail like growth zzq is experiencing. If it doesn’t, we’ll have to start harvesting human organs and selling them on the black market in Hong Kong.