Re: Best open source banner advertising application

Thanks John :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Wards" <j.wards@sportnetwork.net> To: "Awlad Hussain" <php@sheridan-phoenix.com> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Best open source banner advertising application > On Wednesday 04 Jun 2003 3:07 pm, Awlad Hussain wrote: > > Since you have used both systems, would you kindly share with us whats pro > > & cons of them both systems?? > > I have used phpadsnew and like their user interface.. very neat.. not much > > sure about oasis. > > oooh errr put on the sport... > > Pros for PhpAdsNew: > > Simple to install > Simpleish admin area. > Runs on anything that runs apache/php > > Pros For Oasis > > Very powerfull and intergrates great into our major website (which phpadsnew > didn't) > Fast as bits. > More features than phpadsnew (traffic shaping for one which is rather handy) > Pdf reports (Not sure if phpadsnew does that but I can't think of it.) > Can be set up to cluster so has the ablility to handle unlimited page views. > 120+ page manual > > Cons for Phpadsnew. > > To simple... > Slows our system down due to the number of requests we were pushing to it. We > do 150-200 thousand page views a day but when running phpadsnew we had about > 4 or 5 different advert loactions so it was producing about 1 million > requests a day for adverts. > > Cons for Oasis. > > Install not for the wary > Need root access > Has trouble with FreeBSD shared memory (Took our server down a few times so we > had to stop using it, we are now on linux and are busy installing it again) > 120+ page manual > > HTH > > Cheers > John Wards > SportNetwork.net >