I'm testing the OpenX hosted solution out right now on a site with some decent ad impression requirements, and so far I'm not convinced its a viable alternative to Google's Admanager (now known as Doubleclick for publishers).
We're only using one single position right now, a custom size, delivering about 135k impressions a day (all told the site has many positions that require an aggregate total of over a million ad impressions a day), and I'm noticing that delivery is not always smooth. Sometimes I get broken ads, sometimes the space is empty. This is not a user error, it is definitely an unreliable ad delivery situation.
What's worse, is that the stats system is constantly failing to load, with dreaded server errors. In the past 3 days I've been trying to access stats with only 10% of my attempts working. This from a company set to expand to Japan today? Their support forums have users who are complaining about problems with no one responding.
Truly I want OpenX to succeed, the PhpAds platform it evolved from has been in use for over a decade on many sites, including some of my own. However, right now the service has left alot to be desired in terms of reliability - I can't get stats to work on a measly 135k impressions a day, what happens if I need to deliver a million, or 2 million impressions a day? Doubleclick for publishers is EASILY handling this volume right now with no problems for me.
Has anyone else got some positive things to say about the OpenX hosted solution?
We're only using one single position right now, a custom size, delivering about 135k impressions a day (all told the site has many positions that require an aggregate total of over a million ad impressions a day), and I'm noticing that delivery is not always smooth. Sometimes I get broken ads, sometimes the space is empty. This is not a user error, it is definitely an unreliable ad delivery situation.
What's worse, is that the stats system is constantly failing to load, with dreaded server errors. In the past 3 days I've been trying to access stats with only 10% of my attempts working. This from a company set to expand to Japan today? Their support forums have users who are complaining about problems with no one responding.
Truly I want OpenX to succeed, the PhpAds platform it evolved from has been in use for over a decade on many sites, including some of my own. However, right now the service has left alot to be desired in terms of reliability - I can't get stats to work on a measly 135k impressions a day, what happens if I need to deliver a million, or 2 million impressions a day? Doubleclick for publishers is EASILY handling this volume right now with no problems for me.
Has anyone else got some positive things to say about the OpenX hosted solution?
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