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rs — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:56:23 GMT

I’ve mentioned in the past that there will be some revenue generation methods that will be put into XP-Dev.com and here’s the first one.

It’s a rather popular and simple model – Advertisement supported for Free users and there’s a small charge to get rid of these advertisements. You get upgraded to a XP-Dev.com Pro account.

To be honest, I’m sure most of you would have predicted that I’d go down this path at some point.

However, the payment to remove the advertisements is really cheap - at only USD $20 a year (with a full 30 day refund policy), will not find a better deal – 1000MB Subversion space, unlimited users/collaborators, unlimited projects and unlimited repositories, along with all the other great features.

You will not only be chipping in for the infrastructure costs, but will be supporting future developments and enhancements for XP-Dev.com.

Just to keep everyone updated on what’s going on behind the scenes – the next generation project tracking is definately underway. Its going to be uber awesome with a ton of features that will make the current XP-Dev.com look insignificant in comparison!

In between now and releasing the next generation project tracking, I can confirm that there will be one infrastructure update. I’ll blog out the details in a few days time.

Comment #9569

wizecoder — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:31:31 GMT

I understand the need for some revenue but do you think that you could at least change the site format so that nothing gets pushed to the bottom of the page?

But thanks for the awesome hosting anyway.

Comment #9602

rs — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:22:25 GMT

eh ? what browser are you using ?

Comment #9653

elgreco — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 06:09:29 GMT

you should start with adsense from the beginning.
I did a click or two for you :)

keep up the good work!

Comment #9801

Floris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:51:13 GMT

@rs
I used Internet Explorer 7.0 to browse XP-Dev.com on a computer with very little screen size (same result as wizecoder) and on a computer with larger screen size (22 inch, right result).

@elgreco:
I did some clicks on the adsense too (DON’T CLICK TOO MUCH) ... no problem to ask me for more help to improve XP-Dev.

I totally agree you can’t keep running this service without some ads and decreasing the disk space.

Comment #9802

rs — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:51:55 GMT

guys, do go easy on the clicking – it violates adsense ToS and don’t want to be banned from it.

Only click on the ads if you really like what the advertisers are offering

I’ll have a look at the layout issues

Comment #9923

Floris — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:49:39 GMT

@rs:
Despite I was of good will, I might get you into trouble, so exuse-me about my clicks overflow.