Vultr Traffic Miner

Vultr is a popular Cloud Hosting Provider with 2M visitors per month and what makes them popular is how easy you can create and destroy VPS servers on a Pay-As-You-Go basis.

Spawning a server literally takes 20 seconds and about 3 minutes to complete. When you don't pay the bills, your server will be suspended and after a few days it will be re-assigned to someone else. That's why sometimes when you spawn a new server you suddenly get traffic while on your new website while you didn do anything about website promotion or bought any traffic.

That is because the previous owner of your server didn't update his domain yet to point to a different IP.

How To Exploit Vultr To Get Free Traffic?

Now what if you could automate the process of spawning servers and find out if it is getting traffic? Luckily, this can be very easy accomplished by using Vultr "Start Up scripts". Basically you put instructions what the server has to execute after it has been installed. We're gonna put an instruction to redirect all traffic to a specific page, int his case your URL where you can monetize the traffic.

#!/bin/sh

# replace the default index.php with your redirect script
echo "server {    listen       80 default_server;    server_name  _;    rewrite   ^  http://yourid.voluumtrk.com/9b1ffe34-3ee4-4a80-ac0d-d912208f5f33?server=\$server_addr;}" > http.conf

# restart the server
sudo service nginx restart

What's important is that you make you also redirect requests to non-existing pages, and that can be achieved with some minor NGINX config rules as you see above.

Spawn 10 Servers At Once

Now comes the FUN part....Vultr allows you to spawn up to 10 servers at a time, yes 10 servers, imagine how fast you can spawn new servers and "mine" for traffic, all for just $5 per server per month.

Completely Auto-Pilot

You could even completely automate this using the Vultr API and for example the Voluum API.

• You create servers using the Vultr API and you will read which servers have traffic using the Voluum API.
• If a server doesn't get traffic within a given time then you destroy the server using the Vultr API.

What Do You Need To Get Started

• Vultr
• Voluum or any other tracking software

You don't even need to invest money to start because when you sign up for a new Vultr account using the link above you get $20 free credit. Tracking software is not necessary but it makes it easy to redirect traffic wherever you want based on geo-location or ISP/Mobile carrier.

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About the Author

Pathaksa Tongpitak

Pathaksa is an accomplished super affiliate and full-stack PHP developer with more than 15 years in the digital space and the founder of AffiliateWeapons.com. Throughout his career, he's empowered countless entrepreneurs and affiliates to optimize their online ventures through innovative solutions and strategic guidance. Beyond curating premium marketing deals, he dedicates himself to sharing industry insights while maintaining an extensive database of 6304+ verified promotions and discounts.