its down for me again. Was working gr8 till now.. :(I dont know why kelvin not improving his customer care..Such a gr8 product with bad customer service
Like a yo-yo, down for me again...of course it happened in the middle of the night again so all of my servers did 10% of what I expected. As a strong supporter of Kelvin @Spamvilla, I think it might be time to give MegaOCR a chance.
I canceled a few weeks ago. I can forgive a lot of things including poor support, irregular service, broken promises bla bla but when the guy can't even be bothered to come to this forum and say something... anything, then what choice does he leave us?
Are you guys checking the spamvilla site directly to see if the server is down or is there something I'm missing to know when its up or down via gsa or gsa cb? How can I determine not only uptime, but solve rate of spamv?
re megaocr I have that setup as the second service in gsa settings (cb being first with spamv set to be used only for recap via internal cb settings, not main gsa settings....hope its setup right!). it seemed to solve a lot of captchas when i first started using it but the past couple of days I am seeing zero captchas even being sent to the tunnel program let alone solved, despite no settings being changed
dbc set as last resort in gsa settings, though the balance hardly seems to be moving despite cb having a 49% recognized rate and 32% solve rate...and nothing seem to be sent to mega at the moment
update on the mega issue, i had enabled 'use as webserver' option in cb so that scrapebox could use it for its captcha needs, but apparently it is a port conflict for using it that way? i switched webserver off in cb and mega is picking up captchas again though at a pretty poor solve rate so far
anyone know if i can change the mega port settings to another port that will work?
and on a side note, if mega is setup to detect captchas via the decap api/port, why does scrape not pick up on that?
Yes, you can - here's how we have set it up on all our servers (5+ dedis) - it's just an example, it's probably worth to fine tune to your needs. We manage to keep the captcha costs to a bare minimum of maybe 20-30$ per day on DBC and we run several hundred thousand contextual links over all our servers per day. Needless to say its easy for us to switch to MegaOCR completely if Spamvilla goes down by just unchecking it in CB. It's not the most cost-effective setup, but the fastest for us while keeping costs very low.
In GSA SER
1st Option : Captcha Breaker with 2 retries
2nd Option MegaOCR with 2 retries
3rd Option: DBC with 0 retries only for dofollow links with PR1+
Man, this sucks...at 60% or so, megaocr isn't only the inferior solution but it's more expensive, too. Hopefully someone creates a spamvilla clone or buys the technology/license from kelvin. Spamvilla needs to get up again.
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Recently Spamvilla has been up for me every time I checked it except once. Things are working well for the time being.
I heard Kevin was abducted by aliens and they have not returned him -- that explains why he does not respond anywhere... You gotta be a real dumb ass if you have not cancelled your subscription
A noobish question, but how/where do you guys check the spamvilla solving results? How do you know when the service is offline? I've been using the service now for a couple of months blindly, relying on the positive feedback of some contacts... My setup is: In SER 1st service is Spamvilla and 2nd CB In CB I have no additional options turned on, basically everything runs on defaults.
MegaOCR works really great for me. 1.5 Million captchas in 2 days. I am using them for the past month since i left Spamvilla and it`s working really really great. Also in the past month they had like 5-7 hours of downtime witch was for updating their servers.
I would suggest you guys move on from Spamvilla because how Kelvin is handing this will remain the same and the same bad support.
Just my 2 cents..
EDIT: I had 2 x 150$ plans from Spamvilla before and had problems all the time when sending too many captchas... Kelvin said i blocked his server because i was sending captchas too fast.. On megaocr i pay 195$ and i send 40% even more captchas!
Wow this thread is a fucking joke. I've been around long enough to understand as soon as anyone goes 'missing' and blames family/death/illness that it's bullshit. Obviously this happens to people but as soon as it's an excuse 99.9% of the time it's crap.
Would it be possible to add the Spamvilla Success Tab (see picture) to GSA SER ? (For those that don't want to add Spamvilla to CB directly, but rather prefer to use the GSA SER captcha window)
@judderman the downtime is frustrating, but when it works, I really like it. I watch the captchas sometimes and they're not always right, but it's often close which tells me that it does work and hopefully has room to improve.
gooner - I totally agree with what u say, but because as long as Spamvilla is listed in GSA SER and GSA CB and recommended as best option for recapcha, and as long as this thread is open people will post here.
So it is up to @Sven to decide if Spamvilla is a good option to recommend to his users in his tools, but looking at some post i get the impression that there are very little to non moderation in the thread here.
Any other alternative than Spamvilla and Mega OCR? I find MegaOCR solving rate has been decreasing nowadays, not to mention some of it are wrongly solved.
http://screencast.com/t/g1dkPyW69lh
i tried megaocr too and the rate is not too good for decaptchas and as said above alot of are solved false ..i still prefer spamvilla its just the best for decaptcha (with enough retries) and kelvin seems to finaly handle the support better talked with him at skype (my new invoice was done in like 5min)
So whats the fiinal about kelvin he still not respond Im now Lost which one to buy?:( I dont want to wait too long to get service and on the end to have bad success,How about MegaOCR have they unlimited solving on ultimate package and support answer fast?
@cpafly5 if you're really consider to buy the service given the history in this thread for the service/support and attitude Kelvin shows I don't know how to help you.
Just talked with Kelvin over skype and he has confirmed that he is back in business again. So a good news for all SpamVilla users........
[12:01:33 AM] Kelvin Kamrov: it was a bad patch man when my mother died and server started to give problems but all sorted we are back with 55-60% far more then others with 90% uptime guranteed
Has anyone tried the new eve captcha, they charge only 0.5 per 1000 recaptchas and have a thread here. I wonder if any of the members here can compare the success rates? They don't do threads like spamvilla and megaocr but just numbers like antigate and dbc
This service had it's up and down in the past and I decided to close this thread.
Kelvin is about to open a new one here and promised to make his service more stable. During the last weeks he has gone to some real life problems so let's all respect that and let's give it another chance.
Use the other thread for support once it's opened.
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How did you get those free days? How did you contacted him?
Can those who are using MegaOCR share their experience a bit more? I'm thinking of changing.
re megaocr I have that setup as the second service in gsa settings (cb being first with spamv set to be used only for recap via internal cb settings, not main gsa settings....hope its setup right!). it seemed to solve a lot of captchas when i first started using it but the past couple of days I am seeing zero captchas even being sent to the tunnel program let alone solved, despite no settings being changed
dbc set as last resort in gsa settings, though the balance hardly seems to be moving despite cb having a 49% recognized rate and 32% solve rate...and nothing seem to be sent to mega at the moment
anyone know if i can change the mega port settings to another port that will work?
and on a side note, if mega is setup to detect captchas via the decap api/port, why does scrape not pick up on that?
1st Option : Captcha Breaker with 2 retries
http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/seo-other/519512-exclusive-custom-made-bots-automated-software-solutions-scrapers-custom-captcha-ocrs-post6371050.html#post6371050
You gotta be a real dumb ass if you have not cancelled your subscription
My setup is:
In SER 1st service is Spamvilla and 2nd CB
In CB I have no additional options turned on, basically everything runs on defaults.
http://i.imgur.com/zjJI17y.png
http://i.imgur.com/l2cV2s3.png
The dude doesn't care, he is long gone with your money and soon (rather than later) the whole thing will stop working altogether.
I've seen this kind of thing happen too many times. It's not going to end well...
So it is up to @Sven to decide if Spamvilla is a good option to recommend to his users in his tools, but looking at some post i get the impression that there are very little to non moderation in the thread here.
[12:01:33 AM] Kelvin Kamrov: it was a bad patch man when my mother died and server started to give problems but all sorted we are back with 55-60% far more then others with 90% uptime guranteed
This service had it's up and down in the past and I decided to close this thread.
Kelvin is about to open a new one here and promised to make his service more stable. During the last weeks he has gone to some real life problems so let's all respect that and let's give it another chance.
Use the other thread for support once it's opened.