Greg-J
June 13th, 2008, 06:08 PM
Once a month or so I'll get a request to change someones username. My response is always "no", and here's why:
This server has a lot of other sites on it and some of those sites run crons several times an hour. The Sitesixteen marketplace runs every 120 seconds and an internal craigslist cron runs every 5 minutes - and lasts for 7 minutes (do the math) - so the added strain of rebuilding the information that needs to be rebuilt when you do a username change needs to be done when the server isn't getting a bunch of traffic. That time is about 3am to 5am my time, when I sleep. If I am awake at that time I'm working and I don't want to change a username and run maintenance.
So here's what I'll do. I'll stay up one night this week and change everyone who wants to change their username and are willing to pay for it. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to lose sleep to change a username someone simply wishes were changed ;)
If you have 500 posts or less and want your username changed, it's $10. If you want it changed and you have over 500 posts, it'll be $15. I'll do it as long as 5 or more people want it done. If at least 5 people don't want it done it's a no go.
If you want it done, PM me. I'll change them come Monday/Tuesday.
This server has a lot of other sites on it and some of those sites run crons several times an hour. The Sitesixteen marketplace runs every 120 seconds and an internal craigslist cron runs every 5 minutes - and lasts for 7 minutes (do the math) - so the added strain of rebuilding the information that needs to be rebuilt when you do a username change needs to be done when the server isn't getting a bunch of traffic. That time is about 3am to 5am my time, when I sleep. If I am awake at that time I'm working and I don't want to change a username and run maintenance.
So here's what I'll do. I'll stay up one night this week and change everyone who wants to change their username and are willing to pay for it. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to lose sleep to change a username someone simply wishes were changed ;)
If you have 500 posts or less and want your username changed, it's $10. If you want it changed and you have over 500 posts, it'll be $15. I'll do it as long as 5 or more people want it done. If at least 5 people don't want it done it's a no go.
If you want it done, PM me. I'll change them come Monday/Tuesday.