Awhile back on September 18th, my basketball website was able to install Ezoic onto its platform, after months of tedious hard labor and website renovation. We had moved away from a solid web hosting service, Wix to accompany the needs of Ezoic, to Siteground, which is also solid, but we've had more issues with our website crashing due to auto-updates and incompatibility issues.
In the summer of 2019, we've had to back up our website and move numerous full-length articles to the new web hosting service, and multiple attempts to integrate Ezoic had briefly crashed our website offline, but finally in September 2019, we finally were able to figure out how to pair Ezoic and Siteground together to integrate those element to our new website and into our new website design.
Today, we've had another issue once again. Website incompatibility issues are undesirable, and ideally, the website would never crash or go offline, ever. The latest incompatibility issue may be a setback and also a blessing in disguise. Earlier this afternoon, the basketball website was down, as it was a blank white screen filled with no content, which was strange, because usually there was a lot of content and a handful of ads to accompany it. After talking with Siteground's technical support, we had worked our way through the problems, and after testing each plug-in one by one, we figured out that the Ezoic integration was the thing that had messed up the website's functionality.
Therefore, we disabled the Ezoic integration, after multiple attempts to minimize ads or to figure out how to keep the integration aspect, we had to shelve and disable the Ezoic integration function once and for all. We figured it's better to serve information without ads, then to try to attempt to keep the ads but have no website for people to read.
So that's where we are at right now. I'm not really a tech guy, I'm a person who brings his knowledge to the table, and I just try to do my part. I'm kind of bummed, but maybe the whole Ezoic integration aspect just ran its course. My basketball website had ads from September 18th, 2019 until the early afternoon of July 16th, 2020. It was a good run, I guess.
On the other hand....ads did slow things down considerably. The mobile site speed grew considerably worse, and the worst part of it was having absolutely no control or knowledge in deciding what ads go on the website. Again, I'm not a tech guy. Some of the ads I surely would've absolutely disapproved of and not had on the site if I knew how to manage the ads. But with limited funds and knowledge of that area, the ads were basically auto-run through Ezoic and through their ad system.
So for now, the website is back up and running, but this time without ads. Since I haven't figured out how to integrate that back once again, the Ezoic aspect may be permanently shelved. Time will tell if we run ads on the website in the future, but what's first and foremost of utmost importance to us, is being able to have a website that allows us to dispense our information and knowledge to you, the reader.
Thank you for your time.
In the summer of 2019, we've had to back up our website and move numerous full-length articles to the new web hosting service, and multiple attempts to integrate Ezoic had briefly crashed our website offline, but finally in September 2019, we finally were able to figure out how to pair Ezoic and Siteground together to integrate those element to our new website and into our new website design.
Today, we've had another issue once again. Website incompatibility issues are undesirable, and ideally, the website would never crash or go offline, ever. The latest incompatibility issue may be a setback and also a blessing in disguise. Earlier this afternoon, the basketball website was down, as it was a blank white screen filled with no content, which was strange, because usually there was a lot of content and a handful of ads to accompany it. After talking with Siteground's technical support, we had worked our way through the problems, and after testing each plug-in one by one, we figured out that the Ezoic integration was the thing that had messed up the website's functionality.
Therefore, we disabled the Ezoic integration, after multiple attempts to minimize ads or to figure out how to keep the integration aspect, we had to shelve and disable the Ezoic integration function once and for all. We figured it's better to serve information without ads, then to try to attempt to keep the ads but have no website for people to read.
So that's where we are at right now. I'm not really a tech guy, I'm a person who brings his knowledge to the table, and I just try to do my part. I'm kind of bummed, but maybe the whole Ezoic integration aspect just ran its course. My basketball website had ads from September 18th, 2019 until the early afternoon of July 16th, 2020. It was a good run, I guess.
On the other hand....ads did slow things down considerably. The mobile site speed grew considerably worse, and the worst part of it was having absolutely no control or knowledge in deciding what ads go on the website. Again, I'm not a tech guy. Some of the ads I surely would've absolutely disapproved of and not had on the site if I knew how to manage the ads. But with limited funds and knowledge of that area, the ads were basically auto-run through Ezoic and through their ad system.
So for now, the website is back up and running, but this time without ads. Since I haven't figured out how to integrate that back once again, the Ezoic aspect may be permanently shelved. Time will tell if we run ads on the website in the future, but what's first and foremost of utmost importance to us, is being able to have a website that allows us to dispense our information and knowledge to you, the reader.
Thank you for your time.
