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1. iSkywalker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I find that all the open source blog scripts have no Get Paid admin where you can control the banner ads and all related types of ads and who is paying like an ad manager. It's ok when you host your site on a shared server but if your site pickups and you need to move to dedicated server for $200 a month. Whithout get paid module and ads manager, then you just have to shut down your site unless you are rich.

2. InfiniteKnight
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   There are a number of ways of doing such, iSkywalker... I have an ad module installed on my WP site, (AdRotate), that I feed from a backend system, which powers all of my sites from one central point... The backend system is Open X - http://www.openx.org, which was once known as phpAdsNew till not long ago. Open X, is open source, so you can pick a copy up for free and host it yourself, or use their hosted version... Either route you go, I think you will find it to be quite powerful...

   Personally, I would like to see an addon like AdRotate that actually takes into account what level a user is, for example, showing more ads to a subscriber, then to a contributor, or if you had the ability to define more roles, such as membership levels, to reflect those who had directly contributed to your site's development and survival by showing less / no ads, etc...

3. iSkywalker
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Thanks, so you are using openX, I need some feed back beause they seem suspicious, how do they survive if they can host yours for free and allow up to 100M ads impression/month. Did they win the lottery or what? Thanks.

4. InfiniteKnight
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Nope... They survive by the Open X market... I have been using them since the days of phpAds and phpAdsNew, back when things were on SourceForge. When you stop to figure, 100M ad impressions isn't really that much traffic when your only serving a K or less of data per one, in relationship to the URL for the flash / image file, and the url that it points to... Personally, I host my own copy so I have absolute control over it instead of going the hosted route... Either way the system is very easy... Just be aware that hosting your own, you really should have access to CRON, and the system has about 5K worth of files, so if your limited by number of files, beware... But on the other hand, the system is a very through and complete system... So far I haven't found a feature I need that they don't include...

5. iSkywalker
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   InfiniteKnight! Thanks for the reply. I am still not sure if WP is the right blog script, I know that its a good script and free and same with all the open source free scripts, they don't have payment gateway or ads or memberships admin control panel. If I look in the future and my site will take on and be popular, then I need these features that mentioned to be ready to make some money to pay for the cost. I mean if the hosting company send an email to ask you to move up to dedicated server and you are not ready then it will be shut down. You have any suggestions. Cheers.

6. iSkywalker
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   And who is better Adrotate or OpenX?

7. InfiniteKnight
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   I feed OpenX into AdRotate... AdRotate provides a good plugin for WP that allows me to control where I place the ads in my WP install without having to tinker with alot of the back end and theme code (which I already mess with in terms of creating plugins and finding how things work to improve my own work.)

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