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Reply #45 - 11^th May, 2013 at 1:37am

It was up about half an hour ago.. I was able to get to the advertise page.
We're now able to set up a banner ad campaign. Also they have a new site with the ad rules.

Thumbs down for this great rule that I read.. :
They do not allow flashing banners that may cause problems such as epilepsy to people!

I remember back in the days with PTCBox.. that flashing banner that "browser" was using..
Pennywise had told me he was having a hard time whenever that showed up..
It is very logical.. I don't have epilepsy myself but that banner really drove me nuts.. Sad

However.. RefBan is back down now because of excessive load. It will probably cool down tomorrow.

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Reply #46 - 11^th May, 2013 at 1:48am

Well, it goes up and down.. now it's up.. here is the advertise page :

Quote:

> Create New Advert > Buy Impressions
APPROVED - Your advert has been approved and you may create a campaign.
PENDING - Admin still need to check your advert (please allow up to 24 hours).
DECLINED - Your advert has been declined. Click here for more information.

And here are the reasons for getting declined :

Quote:

Banner declined...
Your banner has most likely been declined because it has a banner image or web address that conflicts with our Terms and Conditions. Common reasons include...

Banner image is missing or not working correctly
Banner image does not match your website's content
Banner image flashes in a way that may cause epilepsy Smiley

Web address was not working or displayed error messages
Web address redirects to another website or page rotator
Web address contains harmful code / malware / adware
Important: If you believe your banner advert has been declined in error, please click 'Edit' and resubmit it for approval. Your advert will be rechecked by our staff within 24 hours.

Adverts that are declined more than three times may be blacklisted.

< Back to Advertise

Still the banner space is unable to load anything..
Maybe that's what's causing the excessive use trouble.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #48 - 11^th May, 2013 at 5:39pm

moneymarketing wrote on 11^th May, 2013 at 5:15pm:

I'm starting to get a bad vibe about the site

My spidey sense is tingling(or maybe I should say my bat sense)

Lol.. well, I believe it's just that something went wrong with the traffic they received these days.

Each banner space has to connect to their server to get banner data to display.. meaning that
if 30.000 members have put that banner space in their sites and they enabled the system, then
each time a visitor reaches one of these sites it causes a request for banner data to the refban
server. Which means..

If my site receives 1000 hits every day.. and this happens to every other such member (30.000),
then the server will have to serve 30.000 x 1000 = 30.000.000 requests per day..
Now think about what could happen when people advertise their sites on PTCs and get 1000s of hits simultaneously..

They most likely became overwhelmed by their own system..

Let's hope they will use super fast dedicated servers now to be able to handle all this traffic.

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dansbanners VIP Member Offline I love being here! Posts: 2026 Gender:	Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched! Reply #49 - 11^th May, 2013 at 8:14pm moneymarketing wrote on 11^th May, 2013 at 5:15pm: I'm starting to get a bad vibe about the site My spidey sense is tingling(or maybe I should say my bat sense) Does it do any good to say it? Keep in mind they're the same people running WordLinx and it has existed since 2003.
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Reply #50 - 11^th May, 2013 at 10:09pm

Well, my site is crawling with the ads being slow. I contacted them and they said it would be a week before they add new servers. They told me to take ads off the site until they upgrade. Wow, man they did not prepare for launch very good then. If my keeps crawling, then I will have to take off the ads. We will see.

They also said they would be adding different sizes of banners next week too. My actual blog sidebar can't the banners they currently offer. So ads are only on regular pages.

I say they haven't prepared for this, because look at facebook, but I know that facebook has been up for years, but even they were prepared for launch and had more than 30,000 unique visitors at launch.

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Reply #51 - 11^th May, 2013 at 10:11pm

MoneyMarketing.. sorry.. I don't trust your bat sense.. Tongue

Rogue has been very capable so far.. so I believe we shouldn't be so worried.
We should just let them do their thing.. So far I'm happy with their timeline.

utahman1971 wrote on 11^th May, 2013 at 10:09pm:

Well, my site is crawling with the ads being slow. I contacted them and they said it would be a week before they add new servers. They told me to take ads off the site until they upgrade. Wow, man they did not prepare for launch very good then. If my keeps crawling, then I will have to take off the ads. We will see.

They also said they would be adding different sizes of banners next week too. My actual blog sidebar can't the banners they currently offer. So ads are only on regular pages.

I say they haven't prepared for this, because look at facebook, but I know that facebook has been up for years, but even they were prepared for launch and had more than 30,000 unique visitors at launch.

Sorry, I noticed your post only after I did mine.
That's some useful info, thank you for sharing it with us.
I was about to ask them about it too since it does cause our sites to load forever..

Traffic in such networks can be easily get out of control.
Let's hope their new servers will handle it well.

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Reply #52 - 12^th May, 2013 at 1:11am

SolidSnake wrote on 11^th May, 2013 at 5:39pm:

Lol.. well, I believe it's just that something went wrong with the traffic they received these days.

Each banner space has to connect to their server to get banner data to display.. meaning that
if 30.000 members have put that banner space in their sites and they enabled the system, then
each time a visitor reaches one of these sites it causes a request for banner data to the refban
server. Which means..

If my site receives 1000 hits every day.. and this happens to every other such member (30.000),
then the server will have to serve 30.000 x 1000 = 30.000.000 requests per day..
Now think about what could happen when people advertise their sites on PTCs and get 1000s of hits simultaneously..

They have most likely became overwhelmed by their own system..

Let's hope they will use super fast dedicated servers now to be able to handle all this traffic.

But that is my whole point. You would think they would have expected this and planned for it. There seems to be a lot of rookie mistakes going on here

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Reply #53 - 12^th May, 2013 at 1:16am

utahman1971 wrote on 11^th May, 2013 at 10:09pm:

Well, my site is crawling with the ads being slow. I contacted them and they said it would be a week before they add new servers. They told me to take ads off the site until they upgrade. Wow, man they did not prepare for launch very good then. If my keeps crawling, then I will have to take off the ads. We will see.

They also said they would be adding different sizes of banners next week too. My actual blog sidebar can't the banners they currently offer. So ads are only on regular pages.

I say they haven't prepared for this, because look at facebook, but I know that facebook has been up for years, but even they were prepared for launch and had more than 30,000 unique visitors at launch.

Yes, good points. There is no way they should be adding anything if they are already behind. They should get their foundation stable and running right before they try to build anything on top of it

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Reply #54 - 12^th May, 2013 at 1:18am

SolidSnake wrote on 11^th May, 2013 at 10:11pm:

MoneyMarketing.. sorry.. I don't trust your bat sense.. Tongue

Rogue has been very capable so far.. so I believe we shouldn't be so worried.
We should just let them do their thing.. So far I'm happy with their timeline.

Sorry, I noticed your post only after I did mine.
That's some useful info, thank you for sharing it with us.
I was about to ask them about it too since it does cause our sites to load forever..

Traffic in such networks can be easily get out of control.
Let's hope their new servers will handle it well.

Bat sense VINDICATED! Tongue

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #55 - 12^th May, 2013 at 1:30am

moneymarketing wrote on 12^th May, 2013 at 1:16am:

Yes, good points. There is no way they should be adding anything if they are already behind. They should get their foundation stable and running right before they try to build anything on top of it

However you can never know how much traffic you're gonna need to serve before it actually happens..
So they could have got an unexpected overflow..

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Reply #56 - 12^th May, 2013 at 1:39am

SolidSnake wrote on 12^th May, 2013 at 1:30am:

However you can never know how much traffic you're gonna need to serve before it actually happens..
So they could have got an unexpected overflow..

Yes, but my point is its better to have more than enough servers, than to not have enough. I notice a lot of sites do this now. They do site first answer questions later or fix it later. If it was me I would of budgeted more first, then not worry as much later.

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Reply #58 - 12^th May, 2013 at 2:33am

utahman1971 wrote on 12^th May, 2013 at 2:13am:

Well, my site is loading fine now, and the ads are showing. So hopefully it won't bugger up again, before they put new servers up. Phew

Nice! Mine too.
However maybe it's just a cool down for the servers so I'm not placing my ads yet.
I'll give their servers some time to stabilize with the traffic demand..

BTW, Michael, did you get my PM?
You receive alerts of new PMs when you login.. they show up right under "Good Morning [Your username]".
You can read them by clicking that link.

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Re: RefBan.com Officially Launched!
Reply #59 - 12^th May, 2013 at 2:36am

SolidSnake wrote on 12^th May, 2013 at 2:33am:

Nice! Mine too.
However maybe it's just a cool down for the servers so I'm not placing my ads yet.
I'll give their servers some time to stabilize with the traffic demand..

BTW, Michael, did you get my PM?
You receive alerts of new PMs when you login.. they show up right under "Good Morning [Your username]".
You can read them by clicking that link.

Nope, just notice your post. I am looking at the PM's now. Thanks. Wink

First PM I already looked at.

I don't even have referrals under me on RefBan. Sad

I am even afraid to put a forum on my site, because all I can do is free web hosting, and so far I found the best hosting for free, but worried that if I put a forum on my site like the other hosts would always have my site go down as soon as the forum was added. So I will wait a while see how my site does on this web host, then put up a forum.

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