I am developing a rails application and have encountered the problem
of splitting up traffic coming to the domain. As an example, I would
like to mention that let’s say we have 5 visitors per day to the
domain. We want to split the traffic and redirect them to different
locations:
example.com - Redirecting each visitor to different URL
Thank you Jon, but I am more looking for a simpler solution, because
in the real world scenario I will have 10 different domains, so I have
to split the traffic for each of them to different URL.
Thank you Jon, but I am more looking for a simpler solution, because
in the real world scenario I will have 10 different domains, so I have
to split the traffic for each of them to different URL.
Because we are testing different ways to monetize the traffic and want
to split them to send to multiple providers like (Valueclick,
Rightmedia, etc…) After that we are gathering the information
regarding the revenue per provider and doing analysis. After the
analysis, we are amending our traffic redirection method to send the
traffic to the provider with is paying the highest.
Because we are testing different ways to monetize the traffic and want
to split them to send to multiple providers like (Valueclick,
Rightmedia, etc…) After that we are gathering the information
regarding the revenue per provider and doing analysis. After the
analysis, we are amending our traffic redirection method to send the
traffic to the provider with is paying the highest.
You’re taking the long way around to get to the front of the barn. By
looking at what each of these providers pays to you on a per click or
per
referral basis will do half or more of the work for you. You don’t need
to
start redirecting traffic to figure out who is going to pay you more.
You
need a calculator and a hypothetical number of users.
If you’re insisting on taking the long route then you can just place the
list of redirect domains into an array and randomly select one each time
a
user comes to the site. Alternately you can keep track of what number
user
has arrived by using an instance variable counter. The counter number
matches a position in the array that the domains are kept in. Each time
the
counter increments it uses the domain for that position to redirect to.
At
the end of the array, reset the counter.
Because we are testing different ways to monetize the traffic and want
to split them to send to multiple providers like (Valueclick,
Rightmedia, etc…) After that we are gathering the information
regarding the revenue per provider and doing analysis. After the
analysis, we are amending our traffic redirection method to send the
traffic to the provider with is paying the highest.
i don’t yet understand the problem. Why can’t you do
if foo
redirect_to site1
elsif bar
redirect_to site2
…