The Lounge

I was noticing the traffic on the site for Spark project information and documentation has been picking up nicely. That lead me to thinking about bumping up to another notch on the slice size, but that sort of doubles the hosting cost. It’s pretty modest figure but it can add up over the year.

With the hosting costs at the top of my mind I noticed that a number of the blogs I’ve been reading like Haack’s, Hanselman’s, and Felker’s are showing ads from The Lounge. The ads seemed pretty topical too, relating to a tight cluster of dotnet development and web hosting subject matter, so I dropped them a line to see if the volume of traffic I had was on their radar.

Turns out they do have an advertising bundle of open source product sites, like Ninject, which Spark fit into quite nicely. One day later everything’s all hooked up and running.

It’s nice to have a little splash of color on the page too. I didn’t realize it at the time (paging through all of the Drupal themes of all shape and color) but that particular theme is pretty stark on pages where the blue info block isn’t present.