Please vist my wonderful website (I need 40 hits/week)

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Hey Everybody,

If you have a moment, please visit my website at the following address:

http://mentalsightseeing.byethost5.com

I need 40 visitors a week in order for my account to stay active!

I assure you I've tried to make the site as interesting and informative as possible, and hope you enjoy visiting the site.

You can post comments, thoughts, suggestions here or send them to me by e-mail - there's a contact link on my website and in my profile.

Sincerely yours,

mentalman

I liked the stories and poetry part.I even read some of "Angels".

SpaceCase

do you need 40 hits or 40 unique hits?

Alex,

I believe it would be 40 unique hits as the initial "inactivity" message talked about not receiving 40 visitors in the last 7 days since the bot check my site.

In either case, I'm sure there are enough members that could at least look at the home page that I will be able to make the limit. If you have any suggestions, let me know.

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SpaceCase,

Thank you for your comments, and I'm glad you enjoyed reading "Angels" - that story allowed me to indulge a bit in my special interest of emergency vehicles and personnel - touring the fire station down the street from my house and talking w/ the firefighters as "research" for my story.

Sincerely yours,

mentalman

Nice to see someone who is promoting Linux.

I am thinking that it must be possible to write a cgi-bin script, or a php script that will make a http request to your site a couple of times each week. If just a few people do this each week, it should help you to maintain the site.

I can't promise anything immediately, but I shall look into it if it will help.

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Sorry, I should have mentioned that it might be necessary to set up a periodic triggering of the script, so that it happens automatically.

I can't access the stories.

Hey Serissa,

I'm sorry you can't access the stories on my website. Could you PM or e-mail me any error messages and/or the steps you took in trying to access the stories. Also, information about your operationing system (i.e. Windows, Mac, Linux) and browser (i.e. Internet Explorer 6.0) would be great.

If you can do that, I'll try and fix the problem.

Sincerely yours,

mentalman

Hey Adversarial,

I'm glad you like Linux as much as I do - it's my favorite operating system, and I am very much in love with the philosophy of Open-Source software and Free Software.

Re: your idea below, it sounds very interesting, and (if it works) very helpful. Please don't feel you are obligated to do such a thing however, unless you enjoy developing such script. <grin> I am interested in PHP and other programming a little, so perhaps, if you decided to make it, you could send me the source code for me to look at.

Sincerely yours,

mentalman

Nice website mentalman. I really enjoyed the poems/stories and the artwork.

This seems like a really really questionable idea. First of all, there are webhosting providers that do not require the site to receive a certain amount of hits. Second, why would you be running cgi scripts on client computers?

Submit your URL to some of those free listing sites (whatever they are called - I foget - I don't mean search engines).

The "Angels" story was good; I liked it.[/u]

I heartily approve of this product and/or service.

Hey Everyone,

Thank you for all your comments and for visiting my website - I really appreciate it.

For those of you experiencing problems accessing the site, please see my notes to you, and respond accordingly.

mentalman

My broadband connection is 'always on' and there is a Linux server on the router that connects me to the cable modem. It is doubtful that somebody would have cgi facilities running on a client computer. There would be no reason to do that for an exercise such as this. Setting a script to run once a week to 'hit' a site would not be difficult though the usefulness of this is restricted if unique visitors to the site are required and I missed mention of that stipulation in earlier posts. Also the thought of this occurred to me before I noticed the fact of having to have unique visitors to the site.

mentalman

Nice web site You have I will visit many times