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Run your own ad server (ad rotator) for just $5/month

If you need better control of ads on your sites you can install and use Revive Ad Server (formerly known as OpenX, formerly known as phpAdsNew...). Since Revive (OpenX) can be a resource hog it's considered a good practice to run it on a separate server so it doesn't affect the performance of your site.

For my adserver I used $5/month DigitalOcean VPS + Ubuntu + nginx + mysql (LEMP) + Revive AdServer + GeoIP module and it works just great! Ads are served quick and Revive admin is super fast!

Here are some screenshots:
This month stats
Last month stats
Today's hourly stats

Stats per site
Stats advertiser

DigitalOcean VPS is perfectly stable and the load is really low. It could take much more traffic than this:
DigitalOcean load in past 24h
DigitalOcean load in past month
DigitalOcean load in past year

This setup can be useful for rotating ads on your sites and for GeoTargeting specific ads to specific countries or regions. Also you can use this to sell ads on your site and have the full stats so advertisers can track the performance of their ads etc...

If anyone is interested in a setup like this feel free to contact me:
celebempire /at/ gmail

PhpAdsNew used to be the absolute bomb.......

Is this Revive version a big upgrade?

i miss phpadsnew. is revive its replacement (and still free)?

Revive replaces openx

the chronology is: phpAdsnew -> OpenX -> Revive

Revive:
"The Free Open Source Ad Server formerly known as OpenX Source"

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Originally Posted by HomerSimpson (Post 20420090)

Emai sent.

looks good :thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

signed up and did a 25 paypal payment.

For those who are looking for managed solution (and they don't require GeoIP targeting) - take a look at BoradStreet Ads

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Originally Posted by HomerSimpson (Post 20420090)

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Someone should send this guys some buck or pussy!
He deserves it! :2 cents::2 cents:

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Originally Posted by MrGusMuller (Post 20443842)

:thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup

Someone should send this guys some buck or pussy!
He deserves it! :2 cents::2 cents:

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:thumbsup

thread bookmarked. will surely hit you up for setup, once i get enough traffic.

thanks

always useful HomerSimpson

Bump for Homer, His service is awesome. thanks

Email sent mate :thumbsup

One customer running over 2mil+ imps a day on my setup...

i approve this message! very nice to work with :2 cents::2 cents:

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Originally Posted by HomerSimpson (Post 20502971)

One customer running over 2mil+ imps a day on my setup...

on 5 bucks vps ?

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Originally Posted by brassmonkey (Post 20502973)

i approve this message! very nice to work with :2 cents::2 cents:

thanks :)

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Originally Posted by freecartoonporn (Post 20503136)

on 5 bucks vps ?

yes, on 512MB RAM one...

Very cool! Most people don't realize the power of the $5 digitalocean droplets.

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Originally Posted by HomerSimpson (Post 20503649)

thanks :)

yes, on 512MB RAM one...

that is impressive.
looking forward to implement something like that.

I just implemented this, thanks HomerSimpson.

Funny thing is I wasted some time troubleshooting and realized I had adblocker on... :Oh crap

Just use digitaloceans one-click application install with LAMP or even with phpmyadmin installed. I had some trouble figured out where the passwords were for the preinstalled versions, just log into the console through the droplet menu, it'll give the message the first time you log in.

I'm upset, they recently required the 2nd VPS plan for one-click wordpress installs, I'm guessing because people were going crazy on making wordpress blogs on fast cheap SSD VPS's.

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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions (Post 20516964)

I don't know about that 2nd VPS rule for wordpress... Also, I don't use LAMP because of the apache performance...

got adserver set up from HomerSimpson , and ads are being served from my adserver ., its great.

thanks.

ReviveAds released version 4.00 (now already on 4.0.2) so all my clients what want to upgrade may contact me.

Here's the list of changes:

Code:

Version 4.0.2

- New: Revive Adserver now supports zone chaining to zones where the dimension(s) of the zone are undefined (i.e. ?*?) as well as an exact match.

- Improved the handling of Email/Newsletter zone linking, to ensure that disallowed HTML banners are simply not shown in the first place when linking from the zone, and to fix a bug that allowed HTML banners to be linked to Email/Newsletter zones from the banner.

- Fixed a JavaScript error that occurred on the Campaign Properties page when the global Enable Conversion Tracking option is disabled.

- Fixed an issue with the Client/Language delivery limitation not properly working when targeting specific territories (e.g. en_US) or targeting the broader locale when the browser is only sending locale + territory.

- Improved the warning messages used when generating Local Mode and XML-RPC invocation tags to clarify why these tags are not compliant with IAB guidelines for ad impression measurement (i.e. the ad request comes from the server, not the client).

- Fixed numerous instances of incomplete breadcrumb trails in statistics pages.

- Broken examples of Inline Video banners have been removed from the UI.

- Fixed an incompatibility with recent MySQL versions (5.7.5+) when acquiring advisory locks, due to their name being now limited to 64 characters.

- Changed misleading ?Connection Window? wording to ?Conversion Window? in the settings screen, to match the current usage.



Version 4.0.1

- Fixed an issue in the newly introduced mysqli driver, which was preventing the delivery engine from working when using unix sockets to connect to the database.

- Fixed an issue with the banner properties page accepting weights of zero, negative or numbers with decimal points.

- Fixed an issue preventing Revive Adserver from being installed or upgraded on setups using both a custom session.save_path and open_basedir, or using a custom session handler.

- Fixed an issue preventing Revive Adserver from serving video ads on recent Flash Player versions when loading HTTPS resources from an HTTP website.

- Fixed an issue preventing the Revive Adserver XML-RPC API from working on PHP 7+.

- Fixed an issue preventing forms generated with HTML_QuickForm from working with PHP 7.1.

- Fixed an issue with the ?View by day/week/month? dropdown not properly working on PHP 7+.

- Fixed an issue with magic macros not properly working when nested in curly brackets, e.g. within JSON or JavaScript code.

- Fixed an issue with parent entities names being sometimes escaped twice in the inventory header, thus displaying HTML entities on screen.

- Fixed a missing translation string that prevented an error message from displaying in the installer, and various community-supplied translation string updates.



Version 4.0.0

- We added support for the PHP mysqli extension, finally allowing Revive Adserver to work on PHP7+ without having to manually compile the legacy mysql extension, which was a cumbersome task for many people.

- Browser and Operating system targeting was greatly improved and modernized by replacing the old phpSniff library with a modern alternative (called Sinergi Browser detector), resulting in a significant speed improvement, while at the same time enabling users to target the latest browsers, operating systems, and recent versions of both.

- We added support for both Memcache and Memcached extensions in the oxMemcached plugin.

- We increased the HTML banner size hard limit from 64k to 16MB on MySQL, improving support for HTML5 banners.

- There have also been many other smaller enhancements and improvements, described in detail in the release notes.

- We have fixed numerous bugs, and there are also some non-backward compatible changes, so please make sure you carefully study the release notes.

Also I'm playing around with a new setup that will run on Ubuntu 16.04 (instead of Ubuntu 14.04) and PHP 7.1 instead of PHP 5.5.9.

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Originally Posted by HomerSimpson (Post 21769054)

ReviveAds released version 4.00 (now already on 4.0.2) so all my clients what want to upgrade may contact me.

Here's the list of changes:

Code:

Version 4.0.2

- New: Revive Adserver now supports zone chaining to zones where the dimension(s) of the zone are undefined (i.e. ?*?) as well as an exact match.

- Improved the handling of Email/Newsletter zone linking, to ensure that disallowed HTML banners are simply not shown in the first place when linking from the zone, and to fix a bug that allowed HTML banners to be linked to Email/Newsletter zones from the banner.

- Fixed a JavaScript error that occurred on the Campaign Properties page when the global Enable Conversion Tracking option is disabled.

- Fixed an issue with the Client/Language delivery limitation not properly working when targeting specific territories (e.g. en_US) or targeting the broader locale when the browser is only sending locale + territory.

- Improved the warning messages used when generating Local Mode and XML-RPC invocation tags to clarify why these tags are not compliant with IAB guidelines for ad impression measurement (i.e. the ad request comes from the server, not the client).

- Fixed numerous instances of incomplete breadcrumb trails in statistics pages.

- Broken examples of Inline Video banners have been removed from the UI.

- Fixed an incompatibility with recent MySQL versions (5.7.5+) when acquiring advisory locks, due to their name being now limited to 64 characters.

- Changed misleading ?Connection Window? wording to ?Conversion Window? in the settings screen, to match the current usage.



Version 4.0.1

- Fixed an issue in the newly introduced mysqli driver, which was preventing the delivery engine from working when using unix sockets to connect to the database.

- Fixed an issue with the banner properties page accepting weights of zero, negative or numbers with decimal points.

- Fixed an issue preventing Revive Adserver from being installed or upgraded on setups using both a custom session.save_path and open_basedir, or using a custom session handler.

- Fixed an issue preventing Revive Adserver from serving video ads on recent Flash Player versions when loading HTTPS resources from an HTTP website.

- Fixed an issue preventing the Revive Adserver XML-RPC API from working on PHP 7+.

- Fixed an issue preventing forms generated with HTML_QuickForm from working with PHP 7.1.

- Fixed an issue with the ?View by day/week/month? dropdown not properly working on PHP 7+.

- Fixed an issue with magic macros not properly working when nested in curly brackets, e.g. within JSON or JavaScript code.

- Fixed an issue with parent entities names being sometimes escaped twice in the inventory header, thus displaying HTML entities on screen.

- Fixed a missing translation string that prevented an error message from displaying in the installer, and various community-supplied translation string updates.



Version 4.0.0

- We added support for the PHP mysqli extension, finally allowing Revive Adserver to work on PHP7+ without having to manually compile the legacy mysql extension, which was a cumbersome task for many people.

- Browser and Operating system targeting was greatly improved and modernized by replacing the old phpSniff library with a modern alternative (called Sinergi Browser detector), resulting in a significant speed improvement, while at the same time enabling users to target the latest browsers, operating systems, and recent versions of both.

- We added support for both Memcache and Memcached extensions in the oxMemcached plugin.

- We increased the HTML banner size hard limit from 64k to 16MB on MySQL, improving support for HTML5 banners.

- There have also been many other smaller enhancements and improvements, described in detail in the release notes.

- We have fixed numerous bugs, and there are also some non-backward compatible changes, so please make sure you carefully study the release notes.

Also I'm playing around with a new setup that will run on Ubuntu 16.04 (instead of Ubuntu 14.04) and PHP 7.1 instead of PHP 5.5.9.

Hi Homer,

Can you contact me? I have some question about your offer.

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Originally Posted by 2MuchMark (Post 21769123)

Hi Homer,

Can you contact me? I have some question about your offer.

Sent you a PM.

Nice to see threads like these on GFY again!

I've always loved Revive also, though I've always spent quite a bit more monthly to run it with it being such a resource hog. So some good info there on DigitalOcean. :thumbsup

If you guys need some solid offers to run in your new ad space make sure to hit me up!

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Originally Posted by st0ned (Post 21769909)

Thanks... It's an old thread and unfortunately min.us that I used to host images is out of business so all my pictures/links from my first post doesn't work any more. I have used it since phpMyAdsNew time (can't remember the exact year but it must be about 10 years ago). Back then it was really hard to keep it stable and functioning because of hardware limitations at the time. Since then both hardware and software improved and evolved a lot.

My setup works pretty fine. Here's a $5 dollar DigitalOcean droplet pushing ~2.5 million impressions a day without any performance issues:

http://i.imgur.com/lWBqqkf.png