Central Ad- Will not do.

Webadversts- Looking for something that can handle a lot more of a load.

AdForce-Too high a rotating cost

Dart- Even worse than AdForce

AdJuggler-??? Perhaps an option, any feedback?

Spinbox- Too expensive...

AdCycle- Can it serve third party ads? Is any large site using this system?

Any more???? HELP!!!!!!!

I know a lot of high end sites using their software. (They also represent sites)

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Rain, how much is too much? Whats your price range, that would probaly help.

For a site getting 5-6 million pageviews a month, your revenues should be enough to afford 10,000 dollars for a version of Spinbox. Otherwise, most of the freeware solutions or the smaller solutions are too limited and can't handle 5-6 million pageviews.

ISPCheck.com, a big site, uses Adjuggler, but I've heard negative comments about it.

Otherwise, I don't know... what you named are the big solutions and the smaller solutions and smaller outsourced solutions are just to limited for 5-6 million pageviews

WebDecals.com doesn't seem to make bumper stickers How much traffic did their decals give you?

Thanks

Are you happy with Spinbox?

I would probably get Spinbox lite if I were to get anything. Another question... Why is it an actual piece of hardware?

We had them printed by a firm in the region (eastern NC)... Sorry, but I don't know exactly where, or how the printer was found and contacted. I was only in charge of brainstorming and (happily) left the details up to others.

They claim they have sites server 1.5+ Million impressions a DAY. Do you believe the author is exaggerating?

What would you reccomend for a site that gets about 500,000 impresions per month?
I also hope to reach 1.5 million impressions a month soon... Also should the ads be displayed on a seperate server or could it be on the same physical server as your site?

Maybe somthing around $200-$1000?

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Henry C

About 50% of the banners are locally stored, about 50% of the banners are from networks like CJ, Affinia, AdFlight and Clearblue media. I basically use the serving software to turn on/off the various ad networks.

- Dana Sacco

I am a reseller with webdecals.com (reseller, not affiliate) actually I give away their decals.

I wear my decal proudly on the back window of my car and do believe it helps a lot.

They also do make bumper stickers and 2 different kinds of decals.,,,with many options to choose from.

Yes, we are very happy with Spinbox - and it seems they introduced new financing - http://www.spinbox.com/products/top-finance.html

My partners and I use it for an ad network (go4media LLC) as well as phatstart.com and it's doing 70-80 million pageviews a month. However, it does eat up some system resources (but any big advertising solution will) and sometimes has downtime, but that's because of UUnet (the guys supplying out t-1s) dont understand spinbox that well

Here are the solutions they have:
SpinBox™ can be utilized in many different ways, and thus comes in a variety of packages.

SpinBox Light - Solution for sites that serve up to 500,000 impressions per day.

SpinBox Classic - Solution for sites that serve from 500,000 to 2.5 million impressions per day.

SpinBox Pro - Solution for sites that serve from 2.5 to 15 million impressions per day.

Virtual SpinBox - Solution for sites that serve lower volume of impressions per day or are virtually hosting their Web site.

And Spinbox does nice and pretty graphical reports. It doesn't do a ton of targeting stuff, but it's truly just built for serving tons of ads.. and yes, the support is fantastic.

It's a piece of hardware to ensure it can handle any amount of ads

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when they say 7,000+ dollar for lite version.
is this a monthly fee? or is it the price of the unit including the software?
do they actually ship it to you and i would have to connect it to the server or how does it work?

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That's the one time fee I believe. But it would be best to contact them directly. The only monthly fee I know of for them is their Virtual Spinbox, for 25,000 ads or less a day.

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Phatgames what about AdvertPRO? http://www.advertpro.com
They claim they have sites server 1.5+ Million impressions a DAY. Do you believe the author is exaggerating?

What would you reccomend for a site that gets about 500,000 impresions per month?
I also hope to reach 1.5 million impressions a month soon... Also should the ads be displayed on a seperate server or could it be on the same physical server as your site?

Maybe somthing around $200-$1000?

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Oneguy, I have never heard of advertpro. But the page looks like they attempted to copy centralad.com. The page I visited which supposedly had a great testimonial for The software is using flycast.

Also, the script was written in cgi. Which is fine, but that's not good for the really heavy server loads. I would honestly believe the author is lying, because I don't know how he can test it under 1.5 million ads a day

Oneguy, I would of recommended Centralad pro, but not anymore (they usually are good until 4 million ads a month). But I believe the best cost effective solution is WebAdverts (awsd.com/scripts/) or Adjuggler.

It's always best to host your ads on another dedicated server if you can. This alleviates the load and guarantees faster loading of ads (however, Adjuggler - 995 has incredibly bad system hog - just like Webadverts at a high traffic)

We're pushing 5 million ads a day through our Spinbox setup and for the most part it just plain works. We've had some issues, but I can comfortably recommend them.

Support has been very responsive with any issues that do arise.

Their pricing is structured as a purchase of their proprietary hardware, software licensing etc (so, no, it's not $7,000/month). Expect the typical 30% of purchase price added on for an annual maintenance contract.

-Scott