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Attention,
Upon logging in to check my stats at cashforclicks, I noticed that the stats for the last week of May are still among the missing.
Imagine my surprise when I also noticed that “ALL” personally created banner campaigns also no longer exist….
Has this happened to anyone else??
Rick
Doesn’t surprise me at all knowing that 2K Services owns this program.
That didn’t provide any kind of information….
Care to elaborate?
Hi,
I worked for a company that used their E-Commerce solution for gaming as well as bought one of their Flash based casinos.
Both had non-stop problems, long outages, broken code on their side.
And they had to switch servers alot because they kept getting cut off for spamming.
I wouldn’t send my players to them.
universal,
I appologize for the trouble caused due to harddrive crash. This was a one time case where affiliates’ campaigns and payment profile’s backups could not be restored.
The rest of the data was quickly reincarnated together with the most important statistics – your revenues.
We sent the old HD to recovery company, hopefully it will be recoverd, and we will be able to restore all of your campaigns that you have previously created.
In addition, we implemented a 100% backup system which will allow us to restore all data within an hour in case of another RAID crash.
Please accept my appologies. if you any have problems with your account, contact [email protected]
Vlad,
It is very unlikely that the RAID system would ‘crash’ .. that is what it is meant for, redundancy.
Regards,
Fortyoz,
Sometimes it is a little more complicated than that.
I have seen situations where raid towers have gone down and data from the stripe is un-reachable due to the fact the entire tower is down.
In these situations, it is imperative to have more than one source of backup, such as a second raid tower, tape drive, Ghost image, tape drive…..
I would be interested in what you feel are the best backup solutions as I am always looking for better ways to safegard not only my own data but also that of my clients. By all means, drop me a private message with your thoughts…..
universal4,
I generally use RAID in all important systems and have a seperate backup box with plenty of space to have a weeks worth of incremental backups for all the other boxes ( few hundred gb’s does the job ).
Late each night, the backup box runs a cron job to pull the incremental backup over the network using rsync ( via ssh ).
Basically you just rotate backup.day1 to backup.day2 and use the –link-dest flag of rsync, it makes a copy of the previous days backup using hard links ( very little space used ), then pulls the changes down and deletes the hard links to files that have changed and creates a new file.
So you have a week’s worth of changes incase shit hits the fan.
This is much faster then using tapes.
I use this for a hosting company I admin with many clients and a lot of data, never had the RAID systems fail, but if they do, i’m covered.
Regards,
Thanks for a quick response.
fortyoz
It is very unlikely that the RAID system would ‘crash’ .. that is what it is meant for, redundancy.
We thought so too. Apparently, universal4 is right, they do crash, and even though we use hotswap HDs that didn’t help either.
Ofcourse now we have one more place to backup the data. And in case of something like that happening again, ALL data will be restored within an hour.
Universal 4,
Don’t be too surprised that cashforclicks has your stats missing… If they do appear ,they may not even be the same in a week! They are the same owners as e-cash pay, whom I suggest you stay clear away from!
They (e-cashpay) accept credit card transactions from the players, transfer it to the players casino account almost immediately( accepting the transactions), and then 2 days later after the players spent the money, they would change the stats on the ecashpay website to ( transaction declined) … and this done AFTER the original transactions were accepted ! Beware of anything related to E-cashpay, 2k services, ELKA Enterprise, cashforclicks, Oyster gaming…….. They are all the same crowd !Do you use whois.sc? If you register for a free account you can see other domains that sit on the same servers as well using the reverse ip lookup It helps to find interrelated businesses that people operate.
I applaud your post Jeff as there are many in this industry who do not speak up, and its wrong to ignore these kind of situations as imo it condones their unethical behaviour.
They (e-cashpay) accept credit card transactions from the players, transfer it to the players casino account almost immediately( accepting the transactions), and then 2 days later after the players spent the money, they would change the stats on the ecashpay website to ( transaction declined)
What is the point of that – creating a chargeback to the casino?
I would love to get Vlad’s input on this. Obviously when stats are lost its a serious concern. The issues Jeff0045 brings up are also worrisome.
Vlad, if you’re out there can you shed some light on all this?
Perhaps Jeff is referring to ECP’s ACH transactions, not Credit Card transactions.
I don’t know how much you guys know about ACH, but with your permission, I would like to shed some light on how banks authorize ACH transactions before answering the question.
Basically all you need to initiate an ACH deposit is enter your bank routing number, account number and bank’s and your address.
No password, no authontication whatsoever. All banks have different account numbering. Hence
1. there is no way for a processor to determine whether or not the account belongs to the person trying to initiate a deposit
2. not even a way to check if the account exists at all.At least not in real-time. Only after 7 days one can be 100% sure that the transaction is succesful, provided that there was no decline sent from the bank during this time.
When we first added ACH to ECashPay, we authorized all ACH transactions, and posted declines after we received it. We wanted to add ACH asap, so we started with a simple system.
There were drawbacks: a lot of fraud, and things like Jeff mentions. Those are reasons why now all ACH accounts are first verified by microdeposit, and only then a user can make a deposit or withdrawal. This doesn’t guarantee that the transaction will be rolled back ofcourse, but it decreases the chances of this occuring.
ACH is an alternative to credit cards, but as far as security is concerned its even worse than credit card billing.
