Down and Swinging

[KOMAJI]

Tsunami seems to be down from here. Everyone else too?
Bummer. :(

[Asian Webbie]

pls check ppl
www.tsunami-cash.com

down for me too :(

[KOMAJI]

The creatives seem to be working... Just not the cash site....
Lots of sites have been having issues last couple days it seems... all across the web.

[Shoplifter]

Down for about 24 hours now.

[Nath]

I see this message in the bg when I load URABUKKAKE's page.

Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient(http://www.tsunami-cash.com/soap/track.wsdl) [soapclient.soapclient]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /var/www/lib/urabukkake_track.php on line 18

Warning: SoapClient::SoapClient() [soapclient.soapclient]: I/O warning : failed to load external entity "http://www.tsunami-cash.com/soap/track.wsdl" in /var/www/lib/urabukkake_track.php on line 18

Fatal error: Uncaught SoapFault exception: [WSDL] SOAP-ERROR: Parsing WSDL: Couldn't load from 'http://www.tsunami-cash.com/soap/track.wsdl' in /var/www/lib/urabukkake_track.php:18 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/lib/urabukkake_track.php(18): SoapClient->SoapClient('http://www.tsun...') #1 /var/www/urabukkake-free/index.php(124): TrackingFooter() #2 {main} thrown in /var/www/lib/urabukkake_track.php on line 18

TOKYOFACEFUCK: won't even load.

LITTLE MANGO: same deal. no load.

Server hacked? Blew up? Semen Overload (humor)?

Hopefully everything is fixed and working soon :(

[Asian Webbie]

Has anyone emailed jinashi about this? I pm'd him btw

[KaoSouL]

It was down for a few hours 2 or 3 days ago too. But yeah this has been a prolonged outage this time.

[jscott]

I hope it's not a DDoS attack

[Nerrim]

They're back online now though the sites still a bit slow when you click on the traffic tab.
No new urabukkake fhgs this month yet though :(

[KaoSouL]

Yeah I wish they kept the galleries current with their site releases too.

[Shoplifter]

More galleries would mean more sales here. I can't understand going a month with no updates.

Anyone see any sales today during the downtime?

[KaoSouL]

No sales or rebills for me since the 21st.... which makes it the longest streak this month I didn't make cash from them.

[KOMAJI]

Our last sale on 20th...Have had rebills since then though...
Back up thankfully...

Sites on many boards are reporting attacks...

[KOMAJI]

Luke advised me the disk was full, he has corrected it. No plans for new promo tools. Which is disappointing... What can ya do.

[Shoplifter]

Well this was disappointing as it was one of the few Bukkake sponsors that sold.

Just a few new promo tools is all I ask. What on earth do they have that is better to do than make money with their affiliates?

[KOMAJI]

They are shooting new content...I agree with you though. Needs to go hand in hand.

I am about to release a lot of new tools/content for JuicyBunny...its a struggle to keep up if you do everything...and I think guy behind Tsunami is in that same spot.

[KOMAJI]

Seems like there will be some new promo materials this month after all. Truly good news.

[Shoplifter]

Has anyone done sales with this program since the downtime?

I was doing ok before but absolutely nothing since.

[Nath]

Same here.

I had awesome SE for urabukkake about 2 months ago and now it's almost non-existent. After that, sales tapered off but, that's another issue I suppose. I've started a few more sites modifying my strategy and hopefully that will help to improve things.

Speaking of japanese bukkake, I'm starting up a new site and I can't decide whether I want to go blog or use the ST Script I paid for which has been sitting unused for some time now.

[KaoSouL]

I've gotten 3 since the downtime, but that's insanely low for me.

After Labor Day I've gotten 17 AMP signups, 9 Bukkake TV, 7 Japanese Bukkake Orgy , 5 Bukkake Bath, and only 1 Urabukkake.

This is very odd considering AMP and Tsunami Cash are the only 2 sites I push with my bukkake blog, and all the other sites just have one text link on the sidebar.

[KOMAJI]

Sales down 67% since last month's downtime...
What the hell?

[Shoplifter]

Yes I am down about 70% as well. Something is up and I am wondering if their affiliate database was screwed up in the crash. It's unfortunate their traffic stats don't work as it might be easier to see what is going on.

I don't know if anyone is in contact with them, but it might be good to mention that there is a serious issue. I for one cannot continue to delver traffic for free, so if they want to keep accounts it would be nice to hear that things will soon be fixed.

[KaoSouL]

I sent them an email about this issue a few minutes ago. I had a 1:130 ratio with them for months on end, this month it's 1:500 and other programs I haven't promoted in years are outselling them at this point.

I encourage everyone who is having a problem to email them directly. There was a similar issue like this last year and they just explained it as "shifting traffic patterns" but seriously that makes no sense at all here, I'm clearly sending them the same amount of traffic and getting virtually no sales when other sites I'm not even pushing are all seeing a rise in sales.

[jinashi]

Hi everyone, thanks for expressing your concerns.

I will be making an official announcement this week, but I would like to clear up things sooner.

First I would like to say that we have lost over 30% of our members within the last month.

There are 2 reasons for this: our server downtime and problems with our biller Zombaio.

I apologize for the downtime of the server as it required physically upgrading the hardware. Nothing else changed in our backend and for the sales that do come in everything is operating properly.

However, it has come to our attention that Zombaio's conversions have plummeted. They updated their scrubbing system and it rejects many more customers than it should be. In the declined reports there are 100s of potential signups, mostly from Japan, that should have gone through - many more than before they updated their system. Zombaio also updated their form which was causing a lot of confusion. Zombaio is not being responsive with support. Even though the rates will double we are considering adding ccbill to the mix.

I have heard things have not been going well with ccbill either. I would like to hear your thoughts on ccbill. Any information on other payment processors that are doing well with your sponsors would be helpful as well.

[jscott]

Thanks a lot Jinashi for the thorough explanation.... ya it's really shitty to see what's going on with all these biller problems, Zombaio has always been frowned upon almost since day 1, from their stats point of view to their scrub/conversion views too

CCbill, they are the most trusted billing veterans in the biz in my opinion, but ya really shitty to see the things going on with them lately too (conversions/scrubbing at super highs, and also them billing for file sharing free content sites like filesonic)

I really hope something happens soon, ccbill gets out of their rut, or some other new/better biller comes along (but I highly doubt that)

[KaoSouL]

I've noticed many more sales coming in through Epoch for the Idol Bucks affiliate program. Which is a major shift, previously most signups were through CCBill. I'm assuming this is because they're getting rejected from CCBill and trying Epoch as an alternative signup?

That being said I don't know much about Epoch's program, but it's worth looking in to if CCBill isn't a viable option. There is also Segpay and GXBill but again I don't know much about their reputation either, but I'm sure some other webmaster here have experience with them and can share some information.

https://epoch.com/

http://www.segpay.com/

http://www.gxbill.com/

[jinashi]

We will probably use epoch as the main, and cascade to ccbill and probably zombaio as a 3rd option (so they don't drop your rebills). As an affiliate you won't have to choose anything because the sales are counted the same in our backend regardless of the processor.

On another note, Tokyo Face Fuck is hot right now. With the latest update signups are starting to pick up. We might have hit the content threshold where many people start signing up. If you push it hard now I'm sure you'll do well and it may approach the conversions we were getting for Urabukkake.

[KaoSouL]

Tsunami Cash and all the sites are down yet again.

[jinashi]

Our server was hit a with a ddos attack. Stats show massive peaks on incoming traffic and cpu usage before crashing. Server will be up again shortly.

[KOMAJI]

Any idea of origin? Not that you sh post, but curious. Sorry to hear that J.

[jinashi]

I'm not sure of the source. As with most DDoS attacks it's very difficult to determine who is initiating them.

I plan on moving our servers to a more stable data center this week. And we will be looking into services to thwart DDoS attacks in the future.

[Shoplifter]

I hope you guys can get this fixed as my sales are down so much it's not really worth the effort.

It's good you have added some more promo materials as this is possibly the only other thing that will help right now.

And the business with Zombaio is interesting, it seems every program I send traffic to that used them has now fallen almost completely apart in terms of sales.

[jinashi]

We will be adding ccbill within a week.

Zombaio is completely failing as a billing company since they updated their system. They also doubled their rates at the beginning of this year, added a reserve and failed to improve their service in any way. The only change was some kind of update to their scrubbing which has been dropping rebills and rejecting customers at an excessively high rate. Please avoid them and share these facts on other boards because they are not listening to their customers.

[Shoplifter]

You might want to look at Verotel as well. They are the masters of converting and rebilling EU and Scandinavian clients.

[Shoplifter]

Tsunami Cash offline again for me.

Can anyone reach it?

[KOMAJI]

Same here. I've emailed the owner.

[jscott]

Ouch, this is horrible what's happening to Tsunami Cash, kawawa na! :(

Jinashi, what's happening man? DDoS?

[KOMAJI]

Ouch, this is horrible what's happening to Tsunami Cash, kawawa na! :(

Jinashi, what's happening man? DDoS?

Kawawa what? Translation please :D

[jscott]

kawawa, na song san, it's a pity :(

I don't know the japanese term for it, sorry hehehe

[Nath]

kawawa, na song san, it's a pity :(

I don't know the japanese term for it, sorry hehehe

残念 = ざんねん = Zannen = What a shame/too bad/regretfully...

I'm pretty sure that's it, or at least one of the ways to convey it. And yes, this is a shame :-(

[KOMAJI]

White devil (jscott) is multi-lingual... ;)

Ganbare, Jinashi-san! We are here for you, oji-san!

[jscott]

Thanks Nath and Komaji heheehe looks like a few of us here are bilingual na :)

Well, back to topic, about TC, I'll pm Jinashi again, but I'd assume he knows about this already (i'd certainly hope so)

[KOMAJI]

Thanks Nath and Komaji heheehe looks like a few of us here are bilingual na :)

Well, back to topic, about TC, I'll pm Jinashi again, but I'd assume he knows about this already (i'd certainly hope so)

I emailed him and you PM'd him...so unless he's wading through bukkake goo, hopefully he knows. Lets hope for the best.

[KaoSouL]

it was up, and now it's down again..... what a disappointing month for TC :(

[KOMAJI]

it was up, and now it's down again..... what a disappointing month for TC :(

Truly...

[Nath]

DID THIS HAPPEN TO ANYONE ELSE?!?!

So I logged in to the webmaster area tonight and did a double-take at last months sales figure. Reason being, and to a happy surprise, I've been credited a few extra sales. We're all aware of the recent shake-up going on at Tsunami, and I'm wondering if things are on their way to picking up for everyone (including tsunami) as well.

[Nerrim]

Yes another $60 appeared for last month over the last couple of days.
So that's cheered me up, and I also hope that things are coming together at last for TC.

[KOMAJI]

Nothing new here. :(

[KaoSouL]

Yeah, same here. I had almost $110 added to last months payout total. :)

[Shoplifter]

My total changed as well.

Now that they are back I hope they can get sales back up to the levels they were at before August.

[Shoplifter]

Down for me right now.

[jscott]

Hard times for Tsunami Cash :( sucks bigtime.

I am hiring writer/blogger to help me do some blog posts/updates, was hoping to get more Tsunami contents on my sites, but I guess that's bad idea

[Nerrim]

TC was down for me last night but today it's been ok.

[KaoSouL]

It's been up and down for me since last night. Had some trouble a few minutes ago, and now it's working again. However this is shaping up to be one my best months with them.