Comments on: Hosting Your Own Ad Server With OpenX (aka OpenAds)

By: hosting help

hosting help — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:56:03 +0000

Hi,
I have a server where I have installed openx. HOwever I have a PHP 5.1.6 version and the openx 2.8.7 is not compatible. it needs a higher version of PHP namely PHP 5.2.4. this is a suggestion I got from openx, when I sent then a bug report ……….
getting error with the openx in set-up inventory wizard – Fatal error: Call to undefined method Zend_View_Helper_Placeholder_
> Container::ksort() in /home/public_html/openx/www/admin/plugins/openXWorkflow/library/Zend/View/Helper/HeadLink.php on line 310
………..

Now I want to be cautious while updating the PHP version such that all other modules and apps work fine.

Can u guide me what all versions of which applications I also need to update along with updating the PHP version from 5.1.6 to 5.2.4.

I need to tell this to the hosting provider as they are not able to take a call on this decision.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:57:55 +0000

By the way, OpenX was mostly serving Google Adsense ads and when I coded the Adsense code directly into the web pages (instead of using OpenX), my profits went up by 25%. I guess using Google Adsense with OpenX doesn’t do well with all web browsers.

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:56:16 +0000

Personally, I’ve been removing OpenX ads from most of our websites. It served about 30,000 ads per day and it was totally killing our dedicated server (Intel CPU X3450 @ 2.67GHz w/ 8GB RAM) and it was the only thing running on that server.

By: mark

mark — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:50:21 +0000

my mod was to grab the memory.php file of openx and modify its source.

Now I hope it will be happy with 32mb the greedy B. I mean 128mb??? What’s it going to do with it??

This is the line to tweak.

function OX_getMinimumRequiredMemory($limit = null)
{
if ($limit == ‘maintenance’) {
return 33554432; // 32MB in bytes (32 * 1048576)
}
return 33554432; // 32MB in bytes (32 * 1048576)
}

By: mark

mark — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:36:45 +0000

I was installing openx and it’s asking me to increase memory from 64mb to at least 128mb.
I am on a shared server, isn’t this pushing it a little asking for this much memory?
The help page at openx states

“OpenX requires 16MB for all PHP versions older than PHP5.2 and 24MB for PHP 5.2 or any newer version.”

so if it requires 24mb why isn’t it happy with 64mb?

By: Hendy

Hendy — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:47:04 +0000

Im wondering why OpenX always asking for login all the time the the page loaded…

is there some bug or my hosting problem…

By: Val

Val — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:33:45 +0000

how does 3rd party click tracking works when
using openx banner into another openx instance??
So one can count the clicks at both sides…??

By: The Web Hosting Hero

The Web Hosting Hero — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 01:24:24 +0000

@ratratten: did you create a mysql database first?

By: ratratten

ratratten — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:53:58 +0000

I have a problem with installing OpenX 2.8.7 (step database).
I’ve tried everything but keep hold error message
(mdb2 Error: connect failed).
Can anyone tell me clearly what to fill in order to resume the installation.

database name:
database username:
database password:
database hostname:

By: siddhant

siddhant — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:24:26 +0000

Hi,
i am planning to start an ad network business and going to try openx for it..i want to serve 10 million impressions per month.please tell which one would be the best hosting for it???hostgator has refused for it…also if you could suggest a tutorial for click fruads/ad optimisation or a free/paid plugin kind of thing, i would be thankful to you…waiting for your reply.