Hi there, I was about to go but decided to do a last check up and see if everything is going according to plan..
Unfortunately there was something that got my attention.. the site's bandwidth.

Actually I knew that the ads page was gonna cause a good bandwidth climb but there's seems to be a flow somewhere..
Firstly the default banners that were hosted on my domain were causing a huge amount of lost bandwidth..

Considering that there were many spots where my default banners were displayed, it was taking more than 1MB per page load..
so 3000 visits x 1MB caused a heavy 3GB / day.. that is not beautiful.. my so far sky high 50GB monthly bandwidth limit
suddenly came much closer cause in just 4 days I hit 11GB.. lol

Well, now I fixed most of the traffic hogging by uploading all my banners at imageshack.
I did so in the middle of the day and now that I checked it, it only used some 1.5GB today though the traffic was still
the same.. ~3000 visitors. Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have used much less bandwidth than my current daily rate.

Something else I thought of that will actually require your understanding is that I'll now go ahead and host all of my
banners at imageshack so that I reduce the bandwidth waste. So, if you're currently using any of my banners
directly on your campaigns I'd like to kindly ask you to please inform me, so that I give you the new direct links to use
that do not have a negative effect on my site's bandwidth.

Unfortunately I can't take my banners down as some may still be used in campaigns that cannot be changed.
So I'll keep them hosted, I only ask you to not set up any new campaigns using banners hosted on my domain.

You can either save and upload them on some image hosting service like imageshack or you can of course ask me to do
so and provide you with the new links. I'll now replace all the links in my banners visible on the whole PTCBox.Me site.

You can use any of them of course.

Well, you should also know that even in the worst case scenario that my bandwidth gets filled up quickly I can easily expand it
at a cheap rate of $3 per 30 additional GB.. so your advertising orders are safe here. You don't have to worry about it as
I won't let the site go down at any case.

Sorry for any inconvenience.
SolidSnake

Edited:

But imageshack is banning few countries by IP. Isn't it?

I personally prefer photobucket. (It's negligibly slow for me, but I'm a free member. May be it's faster for pro members.)

imageshack is really reliable site, but photobucket too is. I've been using it for the past 5 years at least.

However, if those banners on top of this forum are hosted on imageshack, I have no problem viewing them.

moneymarketing wrote on 11^th Aug, 2013 at 1:39am:


I just remembered I have a ton of the banners up at BestE but those didn't seem to be getting unusual sign ups. I'll know better when the campaign on your ads page ends if any signups were coming from there

I added a 1-month NerdGrid campaign from nerdbux to the list of the sources for the ads page.
Since they have a large database (50.000+ members) it would probably boost the traffic plus
the conversion ratio a little bit more. It's only been ~15 days since the launch of the program
but the Ads page has already reached ROI. I've just used most of the funds to renew the domain
registration for another year (until the end of August 2014) and now I'll just have to expand the hosting as well.

moneymarketing wrote on 11^th Aug, 2013 at 1:39am:


As for this, I'm happy to hear that, and I'm already planning to make a testimonials splash page with
such good results. As for the traffic you're all receiving to your links I did a check up on the exit links
and here are the results :



Remember that these are not forced (paid) clicks like in PTC programs.. people that clicked are actual visitors that came
from PTC grids, found interest on your ad and clicked wilingly. Also it seems there is a big difference in the clicks the top
banners receive compared to the lower ones.

Anyways, looking at all of these stats I feel the whole project has been a good idea and seems to be succeeding.
And once again thank you all for your support!