Hi again all,

I have what I feel is a reasonable advertising rate schedule set up for QWK.Mon, and I would invite all web hosts to look at it. This is a great opportunity for smaller web hosts in particular to reach webmasters with their message. All ads are text ads in opt-in e-mail messages - much more effective in many ways than traditional banner ads.

To re-iterate a concern mentioned by someone else - QWK.Mon is operated as a separate entity from QWK.Net, the web hosting operation of QWK.Net, LLC. All web hosts are welcome to advertise. Your money is as good as anybody's. ;)

The schedule is available here:

http://www.qwkmon.com/adinfo.php

Advertisers pre-booked by April 1st are eligible for a 25% discount on posted rates.

Please feel free to mail me if you have any questions.

I burst out laughing when I read the "Threshold Performance Warning" advertising section. The idea of using the statistics you're already gathering in order to provide targetted advertising...

While you're at it, how about a similar category for targeting people using slow webhosts? I'm sure that "Your webhost is slow. We're faster." would be almost as effective as "Your webhost is down. We're not.".

Well, the idea hit me earlier today, and you have to admit, it makes sense. Advertising just does not get much more targeted than that. I hope you weren't being sarcastic with the suggestion about adding a category for slow hosts, because I think it's a great idea as well. :)

I just hope that people don't start modifying their web servers to detect "User-Agent: QWK.Mon/1.1" and give those requests higher priority... the closer you try to watch something, the more likely you are to disturb what you're watching. I can certainly imagine that some webhosts would want to make certain that their customers were never "poached" by other hosts due to targeted "poor performance" advertising.

I don't know how feasible that is, but like you, I hope people don't do it. I don't want to have to have QWK.Mon pretend to be something it's not just to fool dishonest hosts. I really want to be able to offer objective data.

I guess hosts with poor performance will have three options:

- Ignore it
- Fix it
- Find a way to fool QWK.Mon into thinking they have better performance

I'll do everything I can to shoot down the third option, which some hosts will undoubtedly pursue.

Anybody have a phone number for a guy named Heisenberg?