Forum Activity for @brian

brian
@brian
11/18/15 08:45:27AM
10,149 posts

Marketplace updates


Installation and Configuration

Sure - I want to be sure you feel like you're getting a good deal for JR.

My experience has shown that more "advanced" use cases for JR (such as the cloud modules) almost always result in more support resources having to be allocated to those users, so we try to price things accordingly. Right now we only have a handful of sites that are actively using (or planning) to use the cloud modules, since by far the majority of our customers are single server, so I appreciate the feedback.

As it grows and evolves we'll of course revisit pricing, features and support and see if makes sense to change things.

Thanks!
brian
@brian
11/18/15 08:41:35AM
10,149 posts

queue depth
Using Jamroom

DannyA:
Ah. Ok. So stupid of me.

One more question. Is there a way to add data from a different server to your dashboard? Specifically, I want the queue depth from my queue server and the five minute load from my conversion workers to display on my main dashboard.

Not out of the box - but the setup is really easy (see the other post on creating a custom dashboard panel) - you'd just have to create a custom module dashboard panel that communicates with your other server and pulls the data in.
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:42:00AM
10,149 posts

How to build a JrElastic multilingual-based site using the Site Builder?
Using Jamroom

I've marked this as "solved" since I believe it covers the question of HOW to build a multilingual site.

Please start a new topic for any specific questions or issues you have in implementing it - that makes it easier on us to track what's going on.

Thanks!
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:39:06AM
10,149 posts

Users recorded as following a profile, but they have not followed.
Using Jamroom

Just an update that I've investigated this, and J's followers were not all added on 1 day - they've been added a few day over months - here's a date stamp for when each follower was added:

"DATE"
"Mon May 25, 2015"
"Tue May 26, 2015"
"Tue May 26, 2015"
"Tue May 26, 2015"
"Wed May 27, 2015"
"Thu May 28, 2015"
"Thu May 28, 2015"
"Thu May 28, 2015"
"Fri May 29, 2015"
"Fri May 29, 2015"
"Sat May 30, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Sun May 31, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Mon June 01, 2015"
"Tue June 02, 2015"
"Tue June 02, 2015"
"Tue June 02, 2015"
"Tue June 02, 2015"
"Tue June 02, 2015"
"Wed June 03, 2015"
"Wed June 03, 2015"
"Thu June 04, 2015"
"Fri June 05, 2015"
"Fri June 05, 2015"
"Fri June 05, 2015"
"Fri June 05, 2015"
"Fri June 05, 2015"
"Fri June 05, 2015"
"Sun June 07, 2015"
"Sun June 07, 2015"
"Sun June 07, 2015"
"Sun June 07, 2015"
"Mon June 08, 2015"
"Tue June 09, 2015"
"Wed June 10, 2015"
"Fri June 12, 2015"
"Fri June 12, 2015"
"Sat June 13, 2015"
"Sun June 14, 2015"
"Sun June 14, 2015"
"Mon June 15, 2015"
"Tue June 16, 2015"
"Wed June 17, 2015"
"Thu June 18, 2015"
"Thu June 18, 2015"
"Sat June 20, 2015"
"Sat June 20, 2015"
"Sun June 21, 2015"
"Sun June 21, 2015"
"Sun June 21, 2015"
"Mon June 22, 2015"
"Mon June 22, 2015"
"Tue June 23, 2015"
"Tue June 23, 2015"
"Thu June 25, 2015"
"Thu June 25, 2015"
"Thu June 25, 2015"
"Sat June 27, 2015"
"Sun June 28, 2015"
"Sun June 28, 2015"
"Sun June 28, 2015"
"Mon June 29, 2015"
"Mon June 29, 2015"
"Mon June 29, 2015"
"Tue June 30, 2015"
"Tue June 30, 2015"
"Wed July 01, 2015"
"Wed July 01, 2015"
"Wed July 01, 2015"
"Thu July 02, 2015"
"Fri July 03, 2015"
"Tue July 07, 2015"
"Tue July 07, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Thu July 09, 2015"
"Sat July 11, 2015"
"Sat July 11, 2015"
"Sat July 11, 2015"
"Sat July 11, 2015"
"Sat July 11, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Sun July 12, 2015"
"Tue July 14, 2015"
"Tue July 14, 2015"
"Tue July 14, 2015"
"Tue July 14, 2015"
"Tue July 14, 2015"
"Tue July 14, 2015"
"Wed July 15, 2015"
"Wed July 15, 2015"
"Wed July 15, 2015"
"Thu July 16, 2015"
"Thu July 16, 2015"
"Fri July 17, 2015"
"Fri July 17, 2015"
"Fri July 17, 2015"
"Sat July 18, 2015"
"Sat July 18, 2015"
"Tue July 21, 2015"
"Wed July 22, 2015"
"Thu July 23, 2015"
"Fri July 24, 2015"
"Fri July 24, 2015"
"Fri July 24, 2015"
"Fri July 24, 2015"
"Sun July 26, 2015"
"Sun July 26, 2015"
"Sun July 26, 2015"
"Mon July 27, 2015"
"Mon July 27, 2015"
"Wed July 29, 2015"
"Wed July 29, 2015"
"Thu July 30, 2015"
"Fri July 31, 2015"
"Sat August 01, 2015"
"Sat August 01, 2015"
"Sat August 01, 2015"
"Sun August 02, 2015"
"Sun August 02, 2015"
"Sun August 02, 2015"
"Mon August 03, 2015"
"Tue August 04, 2015"
"Thu August 06, 2015"
"Thu August 06, 2015"
"Fri August 07, 2015"
"Fri August 07, 2015"
"Sat August 15, 2015"
"Sun August 16, 2015"
"Sun August 16, 2015"
"Tue August 18, 2015"
"Wed August 19, 2015"
"Sat August 22, 2015"
"Sat August 22, 2015"
"Sun August 23, 2015"
"Sun August 23, 2015"
"Tue August 25, 2015"
"Tue August 25, 2015"
"Wed August 26, 2015"
"Wed August 26, 2015"
"Sun August 30, 2015"
"Mon August 31, 2015"
"Tue September 01, 2015"
"Tue September 01, 2015"
"Thu September 03, 2015"
"Sat September 05, 2015"
"Mon September 07, 2015"
"Tue September 08, 2015"
"Thu September 10, 2015"
"Fri September 11, 2015"
"Sat September 12, 2015"
"Sun September 13, 2015"
"Tue September 15, 2015"
"Fri September 18, 2015"
"Mon September 21, 2015"
"Mon September 21, 2015"
"Tue September 22, 2015"
"Tue September 22, 2015"
"Thu September 24, 2015"
"Sun September 27, 2015"
"Mon September 28, 2015"
"Mon September 28, 2015"
"Mon September 28, 2015"
"Tue September 29, 2015"
"Wed September 30, 2015"
"Thu October 01, 2015"
"Sun October 04, 2015"
"Thu October 08, 2015"
"Thu October 08, 2015"
"Thu October 08, 2015"
"Fri October 09, 2015"
"Mon October 12, 2015"
"Wed October 14, 2015"
"Wed October 14, 2015"
"Sat October 24, 2015"
"Sat October 24, 2015"
"Sun October 25, 2015"
"Mon October 26, 2015"
"Sat October 31, 2015"
"Sun November 01, 2015"
"Thu November 05, 2015"
"Sun November 08, 2015"
"Mon November 09, 2015"
"Wed November 11, 2015"
"Thu November 12, 2015"
"Mon November 16, 2015"
"Tue November 17, 2015"

So you can see there's certainly been a few days where shes had a few followers, but this looks "normal" to me.

How did you determine that all of the followers were added in 1 day? I think that is where we want to look as the display of information is probably incorrect.

Hope this helps!
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:21:31AM
10,149 posts

Marketplace updates


Installation and Configuration

DannyA:
Because the cost of code does not increase as my usage scales. It's a one time sunk cost.

Amazon has recurring cost every month because you are
1. Paying for facilities
2. amortizing cost of hardware
3. Bandwidth (and the infrastructure to support it)
4. People to administer it
Basically, there is an ongoing cost to them an the more you use, the more it costs them as well.

Software on the other hand is a once time cost (putting aside support and future development).

Lets say it to 10 hours to develop that skin; its pretty bare bones. Once you wrote it, it's done. If the time you invested was worth, say, $400, then you need to sell 14 copies to before you start making a profit. Every copy after that is pure profit. You can sell 1000 copies and its still only 10 hours you put it. Pretty good product.

It doesn't work this way - you even say so yourself - "(putting aside support and future development)".

Quote:
On the other hand, look at it from my side. If I'm going to deploy 1 cloud server, $29 is not a big deal. If I need to put this on every cloud server its going to cost me more and more. Any thing over 13 servers, It would make more sense to develop it myself.

In a service oriented cloud architecture, where you distribute tasks across many many servers it is not unlikely that you could deploy thousands of servers, even for short periods of time. This is the value of cloud and what enables you to scale. However, you are adding a cost that makes it uneconomical to scale to a product that is intended to help you scale.

Another way to put it is that you are taking something that had a fixed cost to produce but increases in cost as you use it. In that case it's better to write my own skin or risk paying thousands of dollars for of something that has a one time fixed cost.

I don't purport things should be free, just reasonably priced. This pricing model is not appropriate for its intended use. It does not cost you any more time or energy if I deploy the skin on one server or 10000 servers.

Hope that helps.

Jamroom is reasonably priced - in fact it is super cheap. If you went out and hired a developer to try and recreate Jamroom for you, the cost would be orders of magnitude larger than what you'd ever pay for Jamroom - even if you DID scale much larger.

Nothing you've said here refutes my point in any way though - basically what you are saying is that you do not feel Jamroom (and the ongoing support, updates and features) you get is worth $49 a month - even though you've decided to build your entire business on it. If you do end up spinning up "thousands of servers" then it certainly would be the cheapest way to go, but I won't try to help you save money any longer - if you want to purchase the Cloud Bundle every time you need it I won't stop you :)

I do however find it ironic that you justify the support you get from AWS as being worth the money, but history has shown me that when you encounter a server issue they're not helping you at all - instead you ask us. How about this - the next time you have a question on how Apache should be setup, or how Postfix should be setup - contact AWS - let's see how far out of their way they go to help you with an issue that's not part of what they support.

Anyway - that's just my opinion, and I don't make it habit to debate with customers :)
updated by @brian: 11/18/15 07:12:56AM
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:09:42AM
10,149 posts

queue depth
Using Jamroom

DannyA:
I'm sorry, but I can't find the queue viewer on the main server. Where do I find it. Sorry for the stupid question.

ACP -> Core -> Tools -> Queue Viewer.
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:09:16AM
10,149 posts

Removing Black Bars from Youtube Thumbnails
Design and Skin Customization

Nice tip - and great use of the Template Injection module!
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:08:10AM
10,149 posts

Jamroom 5.3 Beta Kickoff
Announcements

gary.moncrieff:
I have checked all those multiple times and it says 5.3.0

Beta channel is active, if it wasn't I wouldn't be receiving beta versions of modules.

For the first couple hours after the release of 5.3.0b1, it did not have the "b1" in the version - and 5.3.0 > 5.3.0b5. Do this:

- go into your developer tools -> browse database
- in the jr_jrcore_module table find the "module version" field for the "jrCore" module and change it from "5.3.0" to "5.3.0b1".

Reset caches and you should see the update.

Let me know if that helps.
brian
@brian
11/18/15 06:06:38AM
10,149 posts

UPDATED IFRAME MODULE AND NOW IFRAMES WONT WORK?
Using Jamroom

Update to the 1.0.5 version of the module - I broke this in my release yesterday, but it should be good now. Sorry about that!
brian
@brian
11/17/15 05:09:36PM
10,149 posts

Marketplace updates


Installation and Configuration

DannyA:
I know you'll suggest getting the monthly "unlimited license" package. But by pricing it so high, that's really the only option. The clients really need to be much much cheaper.

Really? You'll have to forgive me, but as a software developer I've never understood why site owners undervalue software so much. I'm certain your AWS monthly bill is much, much higher than $49 - and yet without Jamroom it wouldn't do you a thing but sit there and cost you money. The time and energy is in JR. AWS doesn't give a rip about your business.

Of course everyone wants everything to be free all the time (and supported well, out of hours, bugs fixed fast, etc.) but it costs money to do that.

I know it's just my opinion, and what you're saying isn't the first time I have heard it, but I just have never understood that position.
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