Swarmify SmartVideo

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Apr 5, 2020

Amazingly easy to abuse - not suitable for agencies

Swarmify sounded as pure gold to me. I have bought the biggest possible account so I have enough capacity to keep going for the long term. And with the idea to recoup the investment by reselling capacity to my clients.

The way Swarmify is structured, this seems very hard. The domains having access to my CDN are invisible. Swarmify informed me that if I want to take one off because a client is no longer paying me, they can do it in the backend. But I have no insights into what domains are using my CDN key. There's one CDN key for all domains. That key isn't even hidden.

In fact, the key is in the HTML sourcecode for every site using the service. This means anybody can copy it and use your allowence. If you run over your allowence, you have to pay $1 per 1.000 views.

In the reporting, you can't see what domain generated how much traffic. So there's no way to check if your clients remain within the allowence you sold them. There is also no way of knowing how many websites are abusing your CDN key.

Also, after asking, I know the CDN consists of strategic placed servers. But I don't know the distance between the Swarmify servers and the visitors of various countries.

I absolutely love the idea of this service, but CDN key abuse is too easy. Just perform a sourcecode search for swarmcdnkey: ", copy pase and you are riding for free on someone else's account. I hope this review will result to quick changes to the service, fast. Otherwise I will perform a full refund. Yes, this is my first 1 taco review.

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Philip_Swarmify

May 14, 2024

I should also mention, we have tons of agencies using Swarmify without issues.

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