PARKED.COM - Official Thread!

[TOXX]

Hi,

Welcome to the OFFICIAL PARKED.COM thread!

 

[DnPresident]

Did you guys get paid on the 7th? I havent asked to be payed yet but I have close to 5k in my account. I also hav been trying to add domains in but cant so they are stuck at sedo where I have been moving them from slowly but surely so who knows what I am losing

Paid on time for me.

 

[TOXX]

Paid on time for me.

I think that's NEVER an issue with PARKED! :tu:
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Payments ALWAYS go out on time like Swiss Clockwork on the 7th and 22nd!

 

[dherwan]

All of the domains working fine. All of the stats are being stored. The problem is one of our primary backend servers (the one that crunches our stats) has decided it wanted to go on vacation for a few days. And if anybody has ever used myisamchk before, you will know how much fun it is to check 2.5 terabytes of data. But I just ordered 3 new replacements for it today and they will be in late next week. In about 30 minutes the box should be back up, and about an hour after that we will open everything back up again. Stats will obviously be a little behind as we process everything but it shouldn't take that long.

I am sorry for this inconvience.

Donny

Donny, do you have plan B or plan C for this situation ?

 

[rabidgoose]

On the one hand, I sympathize with Donny et al. as I can only begin to imagine the hell that an outage this bad is causing them.

On the other hand, I moved a high-traffic domain into parked.com wed. or thurs. and I have been unable to see how it is doing - stats were very delayed around time of the the first (briefer) outage.

I also have a slew of domains that I moved to parked yesterday (thinking that the outage would be over soon), and I am preparing to move them elsewhere. I can't optimize them or see how they are doing.

parked.com has been nothing but reliable and lucrative for me prior to this outage. But this is bad...real bad.

 

[psalm91]

Donny I just wanted to Thank you guys for the great work you have done. I will continue to use you guys and park more domains in the future.

 

[msingley]

A DDOS Attack?

Someone mentioned a DDOS attack as the reason for the shutdown. Is that a fact or just speculation? I think its important to keep rumors to a minimum and let Donny and the Parked team have the space to get things back up and running.

I, for one, think Parked is awesome and couldn't be happier with the customer service, excellent RPC, and on time payments.

In the meantime, anybody got any ideas about how to use the Meta Tags and Title options for SEO?

 

[phantom4444]

Transferred all of my domains to parked last week and while I'm bummed out about the downtime I am sure that the guys are doing everything they can to sort it out as quickly as possible.

I have been so impressed by the parked setup already and they genuinely seem to make every effort to ensure that they run a very proffessional outfit.

Best of Luck everyone at parked!

ak

 

[vbigdeli]

Parked seems to be under DDOS attack..!

 

[Mike]

Donny, how's the situation? Can you give us a brief update?

Thanks,

IB

 

[phantom4444]

If it is a DDOS attack then someone has to track down the scumbags who are doing it.
Wasn't there someone last month (could be wrong) who got DDOS attacked?????

Very dodgy indeed.............. :td:


ak

 

[mrizos]

If it is a DDOS attack then someone has to track down the scumbags who are doing it.
Wasn't there someone last month (could be wrong) who got DDOS attacked?????

Very dodgy indeed.............. :td:


ak

It has the hallmarks of a DDOS. Servers can't take that long to get backup and running. Just my opinion (since I work on about 200 of them daily).

 

[kemjika11]

site is still down. incredible.

 

[DnPresident]

It has the hallmarks of a DDOS. Servers can't take that long to get backup and running. Just my opinion (since I work on about 200 of them daily).

It's really amazing they can keep the stats correct through all this. Seems like, where they were already running sooo far behind they would eventually get to the point of no return.

They say stats aren't effected so I'm hangin in there!

 

[sugimail]

Hey all,

This is Jim, an account manager from Parked. I just wanted to get you guys up to speed on the situation.
As previously mentioned one of our servers had some serious issues over the weekend. I know Donny and our IT crew have been working hard to resolve the problem, but with little luck until this morning when we finally got the server back up. We are basically rebuilding the database on the server as I type this. Before I go any further I want to reassure you that while the parked.com site was down, all parked sites were still up and running. All stats and raw data from visitors and clicks are stored and just waiting for us to crunch the numbers. That said, it will take some time. We do not want to bring Parked.com back up until we have all stats run through and up to date. We want to make sure everything is 100% before getting it back online. If all goes well, that should be sometime tonight. In the interim, as we do process the stats from the past few days we will be sending out emails with each day's stat summary as they are finalized. Donny is hard at work getting things back to normal, which is why he is not posting this himself. Myself and other account managers will be watching the forums all day and will try and answer any questions you might have.

from DNF

 

[denrou]

If it is a DDOS attack then someone has to track down the scumbags who are doing it.
Wasn't there someone last month (could be wrong) who got DDOS attacked?????

Very dodgy indeed.............. :td:


ak

Yah, Namedrive.

 

[TOXX]

Hang in there guys!
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Patience shall be rewarded!

 

[mwhite]

I just want to confirm the information in post sugimail made regarding the issues we are having at Parked.com. While we are having issues with the stats server, we are working diligently to rectify the situation. All of the stats have been stored and we will be sending out emails to update you on the past few days as we get the numbers crunched. We will bring the site back up once we are back up to date. We appologize for the inconvenience, but we will have the site back up as soon as possible. We will be monitoring this board throughout the day to address any questions you may have.

Thanks again for your patience.

Monte White
Account Manager
Parked.com

One other thing I should mention, These problems didn't stem from a DDOS attack.

 

[phantom4444]

Cool, thanks for the update

 

[namedesire]

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Will we still get paid i love your service killing me i cant login and continue ...

 

[mwhite]

Will we still get paid i love your service killing me i cant login and continue ...

You will absolutely get paid. Again, we have all of the stats and raw data for the time you have been unable to log in. We don't want to put the site back up until we get all of the numbers 100% up to the minute. The reason we are waiting until the numbers are up to the minute is because we are fairly certain that the first thing people are going to want to do when we put the site back up is to check their stats. If we have everyone hammering the stat server while we are trying to update it, it will make the process take much longer. Hang with us, we are making quite a bit of progress and should have everything back up this evening. We appreciate your patience.

Monte