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Oh, I see it now. The links to amazon and sonic foundry and stuff... It's at the very bottom of the site. Never scrolled down that far before.... T On 7/23/01 3:29 AM, "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> wrote: > Gareth- > I have no way to really know who comes to the site or why. Clearly they > keep on coming, so they must be finding something interesting there! I > suspect a lot of them come in from search engines to find some >information > they are looking for in the list archives or some other section, and then > they poke around in the rest of the site for a while. A lot of people >keep > coming back to read the archives on the web. I would guess they are >mostly > musicians interested in creating electronic music using samples and loops > in some way or another. The fact that it continues to grow and grow and > grow tells me that interest in looping is growing and growing as well. > > And yes, if you use the Looper's Delight link to buy something from >Amazon, > 5-15% of what you pay goes to Looper's Delight and helps pay the cost of > the whole thing. If you are buying something there anyway, why not use >the > LD link and help us out? it's easy.... It costs the same to you and it > helps out LD. The same is true for zzounds and sonic foundry. I'll > appreciate it greatly if you use the LD links! > > kim > > > At 11:13 PM -0700 7/22/01, whiteoakstudios wrote: >> Kim, >> Are all these people loopers ? Obviously there are a number of hits >from the >> same person but have you any idea who these people are, (I don't expect >you >> to know them all personally but you know what I mean). >> I often use Amazon for books & CD's do you benefit if I access their web >> site through the LD site ? If so , I'll go that route in future. >> >> Gareth >> >> >> Looper's Delight >>> by itself, per month, is about 400,000 page views, 700,000 file >requests >>> (hits), 100,000 user sessions, 9GB of bandwidth, and around 1GB of disk >>> space. Plus a fair amount of CPU in handling the search engine, >archiving >>> and indexing the list, ad serving, mailing list, web server, dns, etc. >The >>> mailing list might have to send anywhere from 25,000 to 100,000 mails a >>> day. It gets much bigger when you add in the rest of my internet >> activities >>> and sites that I host, those monthly totals are about 1 million page >> views, >>> 9 million hits/files, 40GB bandwidth, and about 6GB of disk space. As >it >>> happens, all of these sites are growing like weeds, >> >>> >>> All this is not cheap, but there is no danger of it going offline. >Income >>> from the sites pays about half of it, and the rest is affordable for >me. >>> However, I would prefer to see LD be self-sufficient. In other words, >it >>> should not be freeloading off of me or you or anybody else to exist, it >>> should pay it's own way. For this, I hope the people who use the site >and >>> enjoy the list can help out. That can be through buying Looper's >Delight >>> cd's, or using the affiliate links I have on the LD site when you can >to >>> buy gear (zzounds, sonic foundry, amazon), or making a donation through >> the >>> donation links I've got set up on the site, or buying a t-shirt when we >> get >>> around to that. And any of you who have something to advertise, LD is a >>> fine place to do it and I'm happy to make some reasonable deal to make >it >>> work. Could be a product you sell, or your own cd, or something else. >The >>> whole looping world is watching if you put it on LD! >>> >>> enough groveling for now. :-) >>> >>> kim >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >>> kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com >>> >>> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > >