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500,000 Visits From PPV Afiliate In One Day (DDOS) - Have Affiliate Use Squeeze Page?

by olimits7
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Hi,

I'm working with an affiliate network and one of their affiliates started sending PPV traffic to my "landing page" at 30,000 visits a day; which was fine. However, I guess this affiliate scaled up and was driving 500,000 visits a day; which just killed my server...it almost felt like a DDOS attack. I have a pretty good server, but handling 500,000 visits in a day was just to much.

I started thinking about this and instead of my server taking the load hit on all this PPV traffic; I'm thinking of having my affiliate network request that their affiliates use their own "squeeze page" that then redirects to my "landing page".

Is this a normal request? I don't want to have my server suffer because these affiliates are directly sending traffic to my "landing page".

Thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author drewfioravanti
    Was the traffic any good? If the traffic is good, use the additional cash to get a better server or you could set up a specific page just for that affiliate.

    I probably wouldn't run offers with those restrictions.
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  • Profile picture of the author biggenius
    Originally Posted by olimits7 View Post

    Hi,

    I'm working with an affiliate network and one of their affiliates started sending PPV traffic to my "landing page" at 30,000 visits a day; which was fine. However, I guess this affiliate scaled up and was driving 500,000 visits a day; which just killed my server...it almost felt like a DDOS attack. I have a pretty good server, but handling 500,000 visits in a day was just to much.

    I started thinking about this and instead of my server taking the load hit on all this PPV traffic; I'm thinking of having my affiliate network request that their affiliates use their own "squeeze page" that then redirects to my "landing page".

    Is this a normal request? I don't want to have my server suffer because these affiliates are directly sending traffic to my "landing page".

    Thank you!

    That will only decrease traffic by 50-80%. But server resources are cheap. Why not make your platform big enough to handle such peaks?

    I am getting around 10 million website request per day. Not just simple static or dynamic webpages but a web app which requires complex computation.

    My advice for you use to use a High Availability Scalable approach. Your affiliates's business should not suffer because of your limitations. I think your affiliate lost money by sending traffic to your non responsive webserver. Traffic costs a lot. ( atleast for affiliate and yes i wouldn't send traffic to such advertiser ever )
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    • Profile picture of the author olimits7
      Originally Posted by biggenius View Post

      I am getting around 10 million website request per day. Not just simple static or dynamic webpages but a web app which requires complex computation.

      My advice for you use to use a High Availability Scalable approach. Your affiliates's business should not suffer because of your limitations. I think your affiliate lost money by sending traffic to your non responsive webserver. Traffic costs a lot. ( atleast for affiliate and yes i wouldn't send traffic to such advertiser ever )
      What type of server specs and setup are you using to handle 10 million website requests per day?
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      • Profile picture of the author alpinestars
        Originally Posted by olimits7 View Post

        What type of server specs and setup are you using to handle 10 million website requests per day?
        that would be a series of dedicated servers.. (I forgot the term...) but anyway... you won't be able to afford that thing...

        however, you are in luck... as cloud servers are getting pretty stable and secured these days... and on top of that.. it is also going cheap...

        Amazon EC2... or RackSpace...

        you choose...

        one thing about cloud servers... they are 'still' not secured as individual dedicated servers... I mean they have some firewalls and security features... but not rock solid as a series of dedicated servers...
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      • Profile picture of the author biggenius
        Originally Posted by olimits7 View Post

        What type of server specs and setup are you using to handle 10 million website requests per day?
        I have own Server racks. But, you can use dedicated server cluster to handle that much traffic If you can't afford dedicated servers than cloud Servers will be best for you.
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        • Profile picture of the author olimits7
          Originally Posted by biggenius View Post

          I have own Server racks. But, you can use dedicated server cluster to handle that much traffic If you can't afford dedicated servers than cloud Servers will be best for you.
          Oh ok, do you go through a hosting company for your server racks or do you host your own? Thank you!
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  • Profile picture of the author Greedy
    Requesting the affiliate to use a landing page, may turn away affiliates, since it seem like you offer is already getting attention which is great!

    Forcing to people to use landing page may only lower traffic 40%.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by olimits7 View Post

    Hi,

    I'm working with an affiliate network and one of their affiliates started sending PPV traffic to my "landing page" at 30,000 visits a day; which was fine. However, I guess this affiliate scaled up and was driving 500,000 visits a day; which just killed my server...it almost felt like a DDOS attack. I have a pretty good server, but handling 500,000 visits in a day was just to much.

    I started thinking about this and instead of my server taking the load hit on all this PPV traffic; I'm thinking of having my affiliate network request that their affiliates use their own "squeeze page" that then redirects to my "landing page".

    Is this a normal request? I don't want to have my server suffer because these affiliates are directly sending traffic to my "landing page".

    Thank you!
    This is a perfectly normal and reasonable request
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    • Profile picture of the author owen2012
      If you get the network to email this individual affiliate, then yes it is reasonable. I would not recommend restricting traffic sources to the offer network wide unless certain traffic doesn't convert for your offer.
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  • Profile picture of the author namso85
    If you can't handle affiliate traffic then you have no place being a merchant.
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  • Profile picture of the author Denis Kampl
    ROFL ... this make me laugh so much ...

    People are really amazing, always "craving" for traffic and crying that not getting
    one, and after getting traffic not having hardware to back it up.

    And finally, when they do get traffic, and a lot of it (like OP), wanting to say to
    affiliates, please don't send traffic to my offer as my servers can handle it.

    INSTEAD, thank the lord for the traffic/affiliates and do/pay whatever you need to in
    order to keep it flowing.

    OR stop being a vendor, like namso85 said.

    Are you in the game or out!
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