What if your server hosting Prosper202 goes down?

[acemenace]

If the server goes down (like mine did today) is there anything you can add to the prosper code where after x number of seconds, if the server is not responding, it redirects to the offer using the url link to the offer?

ps. fuck you hostgator.

 

[d03boy]

get a server that gaurantees "6-nine uptime" or something (99.9999)

 

[acemenace]

get a server that gaurantees "6-nine uptime" or something (99.9999)

Any company can guarantee that but does it deliver? Also, I have never had problems with the server going down for this long and the support unresponsive.
Also, I was looking for a solution - in case shit happens...like an insurance. If the server ever goes down, is there a code that you can add to the existing prosper code that would redirect the offer?

 

[subigo]

Also, I was looking for a solution - in case shit happens...like an insurance. If the server ever goes down, is there a code that you can add to the existing prosper code that would redirect the offer?

That doesn't really make sense... if the server's down how is any additional code going to execute?

 

[nickycakes]

if you're spending money on ppc, why the fuck are you relying on a shared hosting account?

 

[developerz]

if you're spending money on ppc, why the fuck are you relying on a shared hosting account?

Exactly... get a dedicated server.

 

[pharmhand]

Dedicated servers can go down, too.

DNS failover is your friend, but then you need to deal with issues like syncing your data.

 

[redmonkey]

^^^that's why you suppose to have two or more name servers. just in case,

 

[acemenace]

if you're spending money on ppc, why the fuck are you relying on a shared hosting account?

It is a dedicated server with hostgator.

My landing page and prosper are on 2 diff servers.

that's why you suppose to have two or more name servers. just in case

I guess thats an option. thanks

 

[xentech]

If your server is down how can it redirect to the aff link?

 

[TLott]

at least make sure you have good monitoring set up to alert you within a couple minutes if there is a problem. nothing sucks worse than a server being down for hours and only needing a quick reboot to get back online.

 

[kimboslice]

edit

 

[BigWill]

You need to setup failover clustering / NLB

100% Uptime ftw

 

[barman]

lol same shit happened to me, fuck hostgator. i put that shit on vps after that debacle

 

[bluebuddha]

Yes there's code you can put to help. One way of doing it would be to have a little script running that pings your p202 server. If that's down, it can replace your LPs with alterantive LPs, which would be exactly the same but have a different outbound link (to another server, or direct link to offer maybe, etc). This would be a cron job.

Another way to go, to avoid duplicating LPs, is to have the script just alter the DNS to point to another server.. etc/hosts or "ddclient" (on Linux).

Either way, not hard to do. Another way to go would be to just have the app send you a text if the server ping fails. Then you can manually go in and fix.. services like pingdom.com do that.

That doesn't really make sense... if the server's down how is any additional code going to execute?

That's assuming that prosper202 and the landing pages are on the same host.


peace

 

[redmonkey]

If you have two different server(assuming they can't be down at the same time) set up your domain's name server to each of the server, and each server should act as name server corresponding to that domain.

so:

ns1.mydomain.com --> first IP
ns2.mydomain.com --> second IP

There's still pointless if your domain registrar is down(supposedly).

 

[alexb]

You need to setup failover clustering / NLB

100% Uptime ftw

Came here to say this.