Stats seem to have froze and aren't updating
What's the problem now? problems every damn day, I don't know how a advertiser can take this site serious
PS. Stats are updating again
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October 19, 2015, 01:32:17 PM
October 19, 2015, 01:30:21 PM
Does this mean that it is more about database getting feed up because of the traffic burst or about the database maintenance stuff which is not done properly that is why the data become corrupted?
This is what I'm wondering. I'm hoping it's the former, because that'd be a great sign,
.It is a good sign that the site finally gets more traffic but If it is the former then we will see another burst again maybe tomorrow or today atleast or it should be somewhere near the range, so far I think everything is quite normal ? The chart shows some increase but it is not really significant so I cant tell really about this
October 19, 2015, 02:42:15 AM
I know that service accepts only pages that are in the first million in Alexa rank. But is there any option to be adopted if page is beyond the first million in the ranking? Are there any exceptions to this rule?
1 million = like 350 visitors per day. It's not that hard to get in there with a solid traffic base and a non-spammy site.
October 18, 2015, 09:45:40 PM
I know that service accepts only pages that are in the first million in Alexa rank. But is there any option to be adopted if page is beyond the first million in the ranking? Are there any exceptions to this rule?
No because a lot of spam sites would be submitted
October 18, 2015, 09:37:15 PM
I know that service accepts only pages that are in the first million in Alexa rank. But is there any option to be adopted if page is beyond the first million in the ranking? Are there any exceptions to this rule?
October 18, 2015, 04:42:17 PM
Does this mean that it is more about database getting feed up because of the traffic burst or about the database maintenance stuff which is not done properly that is why the data become corrupted?
This is what I'm wondering. I'm hoping it's the former, because that'd be a great sign,
. October 18, 2015, 10:11:01 AM
Not sure if this feature was announced before but looks like you can deposit any coin you want using shapeShift, very nice!
October 18, 2015, 09:41:01 AM
We are relieved to say that Mellow Ads is back online again now, after being offline for roughly 18 hours - we've been monitoring it closely since it came back online and all seems to be working correctly again now.
Please accept our apologies for this long downtime, especially so close to the previous problems we had last week with the DoS attack. This time the problems were not DoS related, we had a major malfunction on our database server which caused some of our stats data (used for the performance stats pages) to become badly corrupted. This eventually caused the whole system to lock up as increasing numbers of database queries were failing. Fortunately we have a comprehensive backup system, which meant we have been able to restore everything correctly up to the point of failure. However this has taken a considerable amount of time today due to the way we were storing our backups - this is something we need to work out a solution for that will prevent this long delay in the future.
I will repeat some of the points I made after last weeks problems as they all apply this time too...
Thanks for your patience and support again!
Please accept our apologies for this long downtime, especially so close to the previous problems we had last week with the DoS attack. This time the problems were not DoS related, we had a major malfunction on our database server which caused some of our stats data (used for the performance stats pages) to become badly corrupted. This eventually caused the whole system to lock up as increasing numbers of database queries were failing. Fortunately we have a comprehensive backup system, which meant we have been able to restore everything correctly up to the point of failure. However this has taken a considerable amount of time today due to the way we were storing our backups - this is something we need to work out a solution for that will prevent this long delay in the future.
I will repeat some of the points I made after last weeks problems as they all apply this time too...
- Please be assured that all accounts/passwords/balances etc are intact - there has been zero loss or exposure of sensitive data or funds.
- Any CPM and CPC campaigns should just pick up where they left off - while the system was down no views/clicks happened of course.
- Any Network campaigns that were active have obviously lost some time due to these issues. Therefore we have extended the end date/time for them all by 24 hours to compensate for this. So if for example you started a network campaign on 14th October and paid for 7 days, then it will now run until the 22nd October (instead of the 21st October)
- Network/campaign/ad space statistics will obviously show lower views and impressions over the last 24 hours
Thanks for your patience and support again!
Lets hope this is the end of problems
October 18, 2015, 06:58:49 AM
Please accept our apologies for this long downtime, especially so close to the previous problems we had last week with the DoS attack. This time the problems were not DoS related, we had a major malfunction on our database server which caused some of our stats data (used for the performance stats pages) to become badly corrupted. This eventually caused the whole system to lock up as increasing numbers of database queries were failing
Does this mean that it is more about database getting feed up because of the traffic burst or about the database maintenance stuff which is not done properly that is why the data become corrupted? Also Im wondering if the website goes offline suddenly , will there be any issue with my ads at the network campaign or it has no effect to my ads?
October 18, 2015, 06:52:48 AM
We are relieved to say that Mellow Ads is back online again now, after being offline for roughly 18 hours - we've been monitoring it closely since it came back online and all seems to be working correctly again now.
Please accept our apologies for this long downtime, especially so close to the previous problems we had last week with the DoS attack. This time the problems were not DoS related, we had a major malfunction on our database server which caused some of our stats data (used for the performance stats pages) to become badly corrupted. This eventually caused the whole system to lock up as increasing numbers of database queries were failing. Fortunately we have a comprehensive backup system, which meant we have been able to restore everything correctly up to the point of failure. However this has taken a considerable amount of time today due to the way we were storing our backups - this is something we need to work out a solution for that will prevent this long delay in the future.
I will repeat some of the points I made after last weeks problems as they all apply this time too...
Thanks for your patience and support again!
Please accept our apologies for this long downtime, especially so close to the previous problems we had last week with the DoS attack. This time the problems were not DoS related, we had a major malfunction on our database server which caused some of our stats data (used for the performance stats pages) to become badly corrupted. This eventually caused the whole system to lock up as increasing numbers of database queries were failing. Fortunately we have a comprehensive backup system, which meant we have been able to restore everything correctly up to the point of failure. However this has taken a considerable amount of time today due to the way we were storing our backups - this is something we need to work out a solution for that will prevent this long delay in the future.
I will repeat some of the points I made after last weeks problems as they all apply this time too...
- Please be assured that all accounts/passwords/balances etc are intact - there has been zero loss or exposure of sensitive data or funds.
- Any CPM and CPC campaigns should just pick up where they left off - while the system was down no views/clicks happened of course.
- Any Network campaigns that were active have obviously lost some time due to these issues. Therefore we have extended the end date/time for them all by 24 hours to compensate for this. So if for example you started a network campaign on 14th October and paid for 7 days, then it will now run until the 22nd October (instead of the 21st October)
- Network/campaign/ad space statistics will obviously show lower views and impressions over the last 24 hours
Thanks for your patience and support again!
October 18, 2015, 03:45:15 AM
From personal experience I could guess that if they might have performance issues if they make real time tests of some improvements that they prepare (but they should be able to revert this fast). They mentioned advertising by country, and I remember when we tried that we easily overloaded our old server. Whatever it is, just be patient they'll deal with it.
October 18, 2015, 01:17:47 AM
I was actually thinking about this a bit recently... are we sure it's even a DDoS and not due to higher traffic? A sudden burst of real traffic could cause issues as well. I learned this first-hand when a major site linked to one of my articles and my ~300 visit/day site got over 35k visitors within an hour, crashing it over and over in the process.
A sudden burst of traffic should not cause issue that easily because mellow ads should have a good server for traffic and even if the cause is really because of the traffic burst then batardo should know it right away as it is not hard to examine if the cause comes from traffic
Has he ever specifically said it was a DDoS, though? Or is it just speculation?
October 18, 2015, 01:03:36 AM
I was actually thinking about this a bit recently... are we sure it's even a DDoS and not due to higher traffic? A sudden burst of real traffic could cause issues as well. I learned this first-hand when a major site linked to one of my articles and my ~300 visit/day site got over 35k visitors within an hour, crashing it over and over in the process.
A sudden burst of traffic should not cause issue that easily because mellow ads should have a good server for traffic and even if the cause is really because of the traffic burst then batardo should know it right away as it is not hard to examine if the cause comes from traffic
October 17, 2015, 11:17:27 PM
ddos again? damn loosers those ddosers
People like to DDoS sites they're jealous of. The sad part is if people would compete instead of trying to destroy everything around them, everyone would win.
Very true one person has to ruin it for everyone
I was actually thinking about this a bit recently... are we sure it's even a DDoS and not due to higher traffic? A sudden burst of real traffic could cause issues as well. I learned this first-hand when a major site linked to one of my articles and my ~300 visit/day site got over 35k visitors within an hour, crashing it over and over in the process.
October 17, 2015, 04:50:18 PM
ddos again? damn loosers those ddosers
People like to DDoS sites they're jealous of. The sad part is if people would compete instead of trying to destroy everything around them, everyone would win.
Very true one person has to ruin it for everyone
October 17, 2015, 04:44:09 PM
ddos again? damn loosers those ddosers
People like to DDoS sites they're jealous of. The sad part is if people would compete instead of trying to destroy everything around them, everyone would win.
October 17, 2015, 04:37:39 PM
hey baz is site down?
Sorry everyone, the site is offline at the moment.
We are looking at it urgently now - will keep you informed
October 17, 2015, 03:04:36 PM
ddos again? damn loosers those ddosers
October 17, 2015, 12:04:22 PM
hey baz is site down?
October 17, 2015, 10:11:43 AM
This is awesome! I guess now I have a faucet I need to keep using daily, .
.Yep, and now there is no excuse for advertisers not to give Mellow Ads a try...
1) Register
2) Grab some FREE advertising credit from the faucet (once every day!)
3) Create your advert and start a network campaign for 1 or more days
You will be able to see how easy and efficient our system is, and attract a bit of traffic to your site
Just as a heads-up, I tried to set up a network campaign with 1000 satoshi and it said the minimum is 0.001 BTC per day...
I just tried to activate the network campaign and tells me the same thing, the minimum is 0.001 BTC per day?
Could you send us a screenshot? I can't reproduce this problem at all, I can easily start a network campaign for 0.00001 BTC per day
Thank you for quick fix,now working for 1000 satoshi minimum:)
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