ReverseProxyOCR or Captchatronix
Hi there,
I use ReverseProxyOCR and I wanted to get some feedback for captchatronix.
Pricewise they seem to be on the same level.
But do they solve the same captchas or is captchatronix only solving recaptchas whereas reverseproxyOCR tries to solve other captchas as well?
But do they solve the same captchas or is captchatronix only solving recaptchas whereas reverseproxyOCR tries to solve other captchas as well?
If someone who tried both services could share his/her opinion I would really appreciate it.
How do they compare speedwise?
Do they have a lot of downtimes and so on?
Thanks.
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Up until a month ago i was using ReverseProxy and i have to say that seems much quicker.
RP also solves mollom and a few others, although i have asked for a full list numerous and never seen it.
CT solves only Recaptcha
The solve rate for CT does seem a bit better but the drop in speed means i can only use it for the most important projects/tiers, you also need a lot of proxies because otherwise you end up with harder captchas and even IP blocks in some cases, but that's down to Recaptcha not the OCR.
All in all, i wouldn't recommend either other as things are at the moment. I'm really hoping to see increased speed and better solve rate.
DBC would be too expensive i think. I would recommend CaptchaTronix if they can sort out the speed.
Solve rate seems pretty decent.
I mean how would your perfect captcha solving funnel in GSA and CB look alike?
So i guess it would be CB for general captchas.
Captcha Tronix for Recaptcha
and @banditim's text captcha breaker.
You would be solving a lot of captchas with that set up.
So you would set CB as first option GSA SER settings.
Then within CB toggle recaptchas to go to captchatronix and as a second option within GSA SER you would add banditims text captcha breaker?
Would it make sense to do it this way and just add DBC as third option in GSA with filters for dofollow, PR3and up and hard to solve captchas only.
This way you would really get most of them.
Hopefully he'll see this and jump in to explain it better than me.
It's in beta testing at the moment, so i am trying it out.
My setup is the same as my ideal except i am only using CaptchaTronix for tier 1's.
In an ideal world i would use that for everything but at the moment is slows my server way too much.
DBC could be useful too, as things are i am doing ok with rankings without it - So it's money that could be spent elsewhere but if that changes i would use it for sure.
Or do you split Tier 1 and Tier 2 projects on different GSA SER installations? Because as far as I see it the way captcha settings are right now I can only set them on a per install basis or I would have to set Captchatronix as second service inside GSA SER instead of inside CB and then select only use first service for the Tier 2 projects.
I asked Sven a while ago if it would not make sense to give the captcha settings an own tab on a per project basis like the article manager. He agreed but nothing is implemented yet so not sure if he will change that down the road.
For the banditim text captcha thing - I have askmebot - but not sure if this still works properly. Would his service be something similar or is this the service you are talking about?
So In SER you add CaptchBreaker as first service and CaptchaTronix as second service.
Then in tier 1 projects, go to project options and select "Ask all service/user to fill captchas"
For all other tiers, in projects options change it to "Ask 1st service/user to fill captchas"
So then only tier 1 will use 2nd service which is CaptchaTronix.
Let me know if that makes sense and if not i'll make a screenshot.
BanditIMs captcha service is similar to askmebot, exactly right.
It's hard for me to comment on SER scraping, i haven't used it like that since last year sometime. But if i remember correctly, the % of verifieds is always much lower when SER scrapes. 1 - 2% does sound especially low though. Maybe you should be more selective in your engines and only choose those that get better verification rates.
@BanditIM has a great text captcha service, we're testing it out and it looks great so far, no issues.
@innozemec - I think that he had an idea and then worked on it a little and rushed out the sales thread. A team member of mine that doesn't compromise on speed (@peterngo91) runs at 500 LpM and 300 VpM, but he doesn't like it as well. It's slow and there aren't many good reviews, and the reviews on the site seem a bit unreal.
I just need to understand where my bottleneck seems to be right now.
In the meantime you can also turn off Reverse Proxy completely and see if that makes much difference.
It still makes a difference even when used on tier 1 only.
CB first 3 retries
It could be to do with your general settings, project settings, engine selection etc.
Could be that you are using too many Reverse Proxy threads and that is stalling the whole thing.
But it must be the other settings then. I will share my settings tomorrow and maybe someone can help me out. Thanks for your help @gooner. Again I appreciate every little help.
You might be getting slower responses as by default my service applies a random sleep/delay on the answers between 8-13 seconds in an effort to conserve your proxies from raising Recaptcha difficulty level. As Recaptcha is raising its difficulty with the frequent accesses from same IP
From your dashboard at my website You can control this delay and you can have it totally disabled.
My service real sovling time was about 2-3 seconds, and after the recent upgrades I made it is on average about 1-1.5 seconds and sometimes going bit high in peak hours depending on the system load
It could be some other problem but here is probably not the best place to discuss it.
I will PM you later.
Sure, drop me a pm or a ticket anytime you wish