New ad provider!

As of tomorrow (1st February) we will replace our current ad system with only one direct ad provider. This will hopefully mark the end of the bad ads era.
Don't hesitate to let us know if they still appear though.

Take care!

Best regards
Victor

Bugfix

The new templates did not load correctly, this issue has been fixed.

315 templates!

I've put some more time into installing more templates and have now reached a total of 315 free templates! A greater range for all of you to choose from :) and free as always!

Installing more templates

Soon you will have the opportunity to choose from more free templates!
We're currently aiming for 200+, which will hopefully be completed before the end of this week.

Cheers,
Victor

Whoops

I forgot to add a startup script for lighttpd so actually we've been running Apache for a while which might have been the reason why the server has been a bit sluggish during the weekend. It seems to run smooth now with lighttpd :D

I've configured the startup scripts so this shouldn't happen again.

Sorry for any convenience this might have caused.

New inactivity checker

It seems like we have lots of inactive accounts that possibly slow down the system, so in 30 days a new check will be added that will remove all shoutboxes that doesn't have at least 1 post every 30 days.

So as long as you have at least a post per 30 days you can ignore this except that you'll probably get a speed boost because of a smaller database ;)

Software switch finished

Now we got lighttpd running for all dynamic content as well and it seems to boost the performance quite a bit :D

We'll also run a test without the daily shutdown to see if it will stay up anyways.

And another thing is that we have removed cookie-based sessions for freeshoutbox.net so hopefully the double posting messages some users have reported should be gone.