Hosting, can make you lose money!!

Okay I did it too, I started my first websites on shared hosting. Why Not? Shared hosting is cheap and provides a solution to getting started immediately. Unfortunately what I didn't realize is that in Affiliate Marketing website load time can be the difference maker between a profitable campaign and a dud.

SHARED HOSTING:
This is pretty much the lowest tier in hosting (Some Comparisons include: Danny Ferry, Ali Dia, The Los Angeles Clippers, The Detroit Lions, The Boston Bruins, The Yugo). Shared hosting significantly reduces your startup cost, because hosting providers cram as many sites and users into a server causing huge lags in speed. This becomes a serious issue for anyone doing high volume traffic, PPV campaigns will see this effect the botom line immediately. Also if someone on your shared server decides to run a SPAM script, the server will suddenly go crazy trying to handle the task. (This happens more often than most companies will admit!) Your web pages will display slowly (or not at all), your scripts and databases may not run properly, and the entire server will eventually become unstable and crash causing your site, and possibly even your email, to become unavailable. Eventually, a technician will reboot the server and the whole cycle will start over again until the next crash. But they will not refund you for lost money. :(

DEDICATED HOSTING:
Dedicated hosting is a great option, but unfortunately costs can run upwards of $200 a month. With dedicated hosting you get an entire server dedicated to you, and you alone. All that space, means fast loading redirects, and webpages, however, for new affiliates its just too expensive, and too much space.

VPS (Virtual Private Servers):
VPS hosting is a great stepping stone between shared and dedicated hosting. A single physical server is partitioned into multiple virtual private servers. Even if a VPS on the same server crashes, your VPS won't suffer. For traffic sources such as PPV, where you are dealing with thousands of hits a day, VPS or better is a requirement! With VPS you are getting space, speed, and at cost that will not hurt the pocketbook.

So in attempt to change the world of all those using shared hosting we have decided to make it our mission to get all Prospser users on VPS hosting. We've formed a partnership with Beyond Hosting, when you sign up for a VPS package you will get prosper pre-installed on your host. Your redirects will be super fast, and you won't be leaving money on the table, plus you no longer need to spend time figuring out how to install Prosper properly. :)

"Invest in good web hosting, ad servers and tracking. Make sure you get the absolute best fit for your campaigns. As soon as you have a dodgy web hosting provider, you add more guess work to your campaigns. Absolutely basic common sense." (Lorenzo Green )

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If you will be attending LeadsCon this week make sure to also stop by the Meetup202 happy hour. The NYC organizers are putting together this networking event during LeadsCon. You can find the details and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/meetup202nyc/calendar/14194629/

Event Details

When
Jul, 27
Tue 5:00 PM

Location
Croton Reservoir Tavern
108 West 40th Street
(Between 6th Ave & Broadway)
New York, NY 10018
212-997-6835

How to find us
"Go to the back and down the stairs. We have the downstairs room to ourselves."

Hi Meetup202'ers, We will be having our July meetup during on Tuesday the 27th from 5-8 pm. This is an excellent opportunity to network within the internet marketing industry. This is a special meetup because it is occurring during LeadsCon. We will have many prominent people in town just for the conference at this one meetup only. So don't miss it! We have a special floor reserved at Croton Reservior, just short blocks away from LeadsCon, with a great happy hour worked out for you. We can only take 125 people and with the conference in town this will fill up FAST so please rsvp immediately. Best, Emily

http://www.meetup.com/meetup202nyc/calendar/14194629/

I wanted to clarify some things about the new redirect speed improvements. This is in response to browie's post. I didn't realize this until now, but essentially, you will most likely only see a significant increase in your redirect speed time if your Tracking202 installation had lots of data. We only tested the speed increase for older installations that were previously slow. We did not test the speed between a new install vs a new install with an older version of our software.

The problem before was that high-volume users would store so much data in their Tracking202 install. The redirect process does several mysql lookups to see where it needs to go. It also stores data along the way. But after someone's install had millions of clicks this process would get slower and slower, and eventually get to slow. With everyone doing PPV and people are sending a lot more clicks in general than before--it has exaggerated the problem.

The new Tracking202 removes a lot of the un-necessary lookups we did. So users storing lots of old data, or users sending tons of clicks at once will see the biggest speed increase. While brand-new installs won't really show any increased speed differences because their lookups are super fast anyways because there is no data to be looked up.

We tested the redirect speed on the hosted version of tracking202, which stores hundreds of millions of clicks. After implementing the change we noticed around a 30-40% decrease in redirect time.

Prosper202 1.6 beta is now available for download. This is not an official release yet, we are awaiting feedback to make sure all of the new features work correctly for the early adopters. If you want to experiment with the new Prosper202 1.6 release you may find it here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.tracking202.com/downloads/prosper202_1.6_beta1.zip. Below are a few of the changes you will find in the new release.

• Redirect speed has been dramatically improved.(if you were concerned about using p202 with ppv or a media buy, give it another shot. If it's slow it's probably your web-host, we only recommend VPSes or Dedicated servers)
• Reporting is slightly faster
• Stats202 w/ LinkTrust integrations fixed (requires you to re-enter your account information)
• New resources section
• New alert system for critical announcements
• Meetup202 events are now listed in the news tab
• Tracking202 twitter feed now integrated
• New community support and feedback widget installed
• Fixed advanced landing page problem on overview page
• Fixed duplicate (c1-c5) errors from popping up
• Fixed installation partitioning error
• Requires php5 error thrown if php is not up to date
• Keywords max limit is now 255 characters long
• New Traffic Source Icons Additions (overview & spy view icons)
  • AdBlade
  • AdEngage
  • AdKnowledge
  • AdMob
  • Adoori
  • AdReady
  • Adsdaq
  • Adside
  • Adtegrity
  • Adtoll
  • Advertiser.com
  • Advertising.com
  • Amazon
  • AOL
  • Craigslist
  • DirectCPV
  • Etology
  • eZanga
  • Findology
  • Fox Network
  • Hi5
  • Jema Media
  • Linksador
  • Marchex
  • MegaClick
  • Mochi
  • MySpace
  • Plenty Of Fish
  • RevTwt
  • Search123
  • SearchFeed
  • Twiter
  • YouTube

  If you could. Please post your comments after upgrading your installation. Did it work for you? Did you notice any errors? Do you hate it? Do you love it? We need your feedback on this beta test so we can move forward with the official release. Thanks everyone!

  Upgrade instructions can be found here: http://prosper.tracking202.com/apps/docs/upgrading/

Hey everyone, Prosper202 1.6 is coming out this week. We've finished testing the new redirect speed and they are FAST. Those who thought they couldn't scale using T202 with PPV or Media Buys will be surprised at how fast the new release is. You will no longer run into a problem with your redirect speeds (as long as your host is decent of course). If you ran into this issue before you will want to try out the new release to see how much of a difference there is. We just tested it on the hosted tracking202 and it's godly fast. Stay tuned.