...and down again. DirectTrack is such a turd. When there's millions of dollars at stake, you'dd think they would invest a few bucks in DDoS protection.
DirecTrack is Down! Pause Campaigns!
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All they are doing now is Server Reboots. I wouldnt touch your links for an hour after they go live or give official word, thats what I am telling our pubs.
The datacenter that the down servers are in specializes in DDOS protection... There needs to be redundancy, not just protection. And there needs to be better protection.
Ads4dough was the first to email me, and informed me of all the other networks affected (C2M , Copeac,ect) and I should make sure their campaigns are down too....
I'm a total noob to this, but was curious how long it would take for DT to go down, and how much the $$$ loss would be.
I imagine several millions in lost revenue just from lost offers, not including people that will switch to new networks/rotate offers just in case.
I'm a total noob to this, but was curious how long it would take for DT to go down, and how much the $$$ loss would be.
I imagine several millions in lost revenue just from lost offers, not including people that will switch to new networks/rotate offers just in case.
I here stuff like this way to much. Who the fuck is working at these networks? I mean come on, if the main asset (not sure if asset is the right term) of your business isn't working and you don't even know about it, hell I don't even know what to say.
Its like working at a fleshlight factory and instead of silicone being used in the mold, concrete is. Well actually I'm not sure that's a good example, but I think you get what I'm trying to say.
One of the best things we ever did was switch from DT to another system. It was a pain to switch and maybe we are missing some of the minor features of DT. But, we have had little/no issues with downtime related to our new platform. I don't need affiliate platform to be amazing. I just need it to work consistently.
When is someone going to create a script that does nothing but ping the DT servers all day and pauses/starts your campaigns depending on it?
just paused campaigns, damn.
another thing about DT that sucks is when you refresh your stats and it takes about 3 minutes to load up. whats going on with that? Its been like that for over 6 months
well they are handling quite a few database transactions... so their shit probably isn't optimized as much as it could be. That's the cost of having up to the second stats though.
I think that depends more on the network. Copeac takes minutes sometimes, but other DT networks are instant to load stats.
It's been like that for years as far as I can remember. One of the best DirectTrash features!
A network told me DT sent this: "Direct Track and one of their other networks were the subject of a malicious DDOS attack, which means that an insurmountable amount of traffic was sent to certain IP addresses at once, causing everything to shut down."
Johny from Ads4Dough just said that everything seems to be back to normal... first thig I heard from an official source...
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