Bitcoin Forum

Hi all I am having trouble with my web hosting at hostgator they tell my my site is putting to much strain on there server and are giving me a warning to sort it out.

My question
1. is it normal to have over 20,000 visits to my faucet in only 2 days or is something funny going on?
2. should I move my faucet to a vps?
3. what hosting to you use with high traffic without issues?

1) What's your daily payout on your faucet? Do you advertise, or have you just put on your thread here and sat back?
2) Yes; if not now, then definitely if/when your faucet becomes larger.
3) Depends, are you looking for a host with a tight budget, or are you fine with reaching deep into your pockets?

There are a couple quality guys around here that I've observed that could help you better than I can.

1. daily payout 350-1000 satoshi my faucet www.btchydrant.com (http://www.btchydrant.com)only been running for less than a week
and yes as a faucet owner always on a tight budget. I can get vps for $3.45 from OVH.com should be enough.

I meant to ask how much you were sending out to users every day, in total. I don't really have much experience with OVH, but that seems pretty affordable to start out with, especially if your faucet is starting out as well and isn't getting hundreds of thousands of payouts daily (yet :) ); but unless they're selling some really great spec VPS for that price, you're going to have to upgrade soon.

0.00835462 satoshi  in the last 2 days

thanks for the link. I already have purchased a vps from ovh so will see how that goes. just waiting on the ip's to switch over hopfully without any downtime

From my experience, ~0.004/day is a normal amount to pay out, so for now you are fine, however if it increases, you might want to add security measures to prevent bots.

For a host, I'm not sure if you've already registered with a different host, but I'd recommend SteadyTurtle, (http://steadyturtle.com) they are fast and their support staff is great.

I have around 40k+ visitors. You can host o the same hosting I am using very good. 29 usd per month.

http://earnfaucet.com/

Thanks

B i t B l a b b e r  and  N a u g h t y C o i n s  are hosted by OrangeWebsite.

Never had problems. Hosted in Iceland (BTC friendly). Please let me know if you are interested. I'm an affiliate there. :)


Dave

Me I'm paying 6 million to 8 million satoshi a day.

wow that's a lot. how do you deal with the bot problem I could use some good advise.

How mach you pay for this and whats vps plane you got?

I'm paying for $5 a month only.

You should add some anti-bots mesures. If lots of your visits don't have a reffer, then are bots.

Not always. Some "actual" users don't have referer information. What if someone bookmarks your faucet?
There's no way to tell.

Also, referrals from faucetbox's official faucet list show up as blank/none for some reason even though the traffic comes from faucetbox.
Faucetbox provides a lot of traffic, so you can't jump to conclusions too quickly.

1) No, it's not normal. 99% of that traffic could be bots.
2) Depends. If your host is expensive and you can't catch up, then yes.
3) I use a dedicated server.

i own MarkabiHost.com.

i can give you premium cPanel for free if you put small link ad on your site footer promoting my site DonaldCoin ;D

I use VPS without any issues. most common the hosting proved.

it's good visitor, i think 20k visitor in 2days make you must move it to vps, i recomended use hostagor or maybe hostinger..

before you move it, are you sure 20k visitor is real human..? or bot..?

i have upgraded to a ovh.com vps for less than $4 a month and it seems to working great now. i have had issues with bots in the last few days and working on bot protection for my site www.btchydrant.com

My advice (as experienced owner of faucets with high traffic ): forget about your actual hosting and get a serious (good & cheap) VPS:  https://www.interserver.net/dock/vps-201615.html (https://www.interserver.net/dock/vps-201615.html)

You can test it for 1 month for just 1 cent!  Yes: 1 cent!

Whats price after one month promo?

maybe its bot. .
you can check at your google analitic, and it will show. . its many bot use reff link with direct reff. .
check the IP who use that reff link, and ban thats ips on httacces. . i use this trick to protect my faucet. . http://xyzbitco.xyz/

just 6$/month

 VPS price 6$/month its fare price. BTW is this VPS with cplane?

Cpanel is optional (10$)

for $6 a month you can get SSD VPS with 2G RAM, Anti-DDOS and Plesk license for 10 domains from ovh, and now there is even 30% off promo until 11th april : https://www.ovh.ie/vps/vps-ssd.xml (https://www.ovh.ie/vps/vps-ssd.xml)
i use 2 of them for over a year now, there is nothing better for such price