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Hi @Jbucci, Have you tried stepping through the documentation at http://documentation.revive-adserver.com/display/DOCS/User+Guide ?

Hi @bdamage, Yes, I think you will want to do this another way - if you're always loading the banners, but then just hiding one, then that will probably record an impression for each banner, and probably Google (and most other services) won't approve of you loading, but hiding, their banners. Presumably, your wrapper can determine (using JavaScript?) if you're showing the page to a mobile user or a desktop user, and currently sets the display property based on this? If so, rather than setting a display property, why not either load or not load the invocation tag? That way, you will only load the zone that's appropriate.

Hi @bocadave, If you're trying to target users from a city name, where the city name exists in two different states, you probably want to combine two different types of targeting - so that the banner will only show up if the user is in the state, and the city.

Hi @hermes.alves, Its possible, but it would be a bit messy. Revive Adserver isn't really a banner rotating system, so doing what you want isn't exactly what it was built for. I think you could do it, though, by either: Putting each banner into a separate zone, and rotating through all the zone invocation tags, if you can hard-code this externally, but update the list easily enough when things change; orConfigure each banner to only be displayed once, but reset the counter after X seconds, where X seconds is the total rotation time (or less, if you want a little randomness in the system).

Hi @stardotstar, Ouch, this won't be fun. I think the only way you could do this would be to compare the filenames of all the images against the contents of the banners table, looking at the contents of the filename column. Doing that with a script would be the most effective way.

Please see also our troubleshooting guide on missing plugins: http://documentation.revive-adserver.com/display/DOCS/Plugins+Missing+or+Disabled

Hi @reggie77, In short - no; Revive Adserver has a concept of one banner for one zone. If you want to create something like that, you have to do it externally to Revive Adserver with multiple zones (or multiple instances of one zone) in your code.

Hi @giantstep, The problem, as always, with trying to advise people about what size hardware they need is that systems are so amazingly configurable, and variable; and everyone has different expectations. What webserver will you use? What version of PHP? What opcode cache (if any)? Will you local storage, or S3? Will it be solid state or not? Will you use disk based caching, or memcached? What database will you use - MySQL or PostgreSQL? How will that be tuned? Will you be tracking requests as well as impressions? Or just impressions? Will you be using the phpSniff option, and/or geotargeting lookups? What kind of invocation tags will you be using - and what kind of banner load time is acceptable for your site? 1 second? 0.1 seconds? 10 seconds? There really is so much that is variable, that it really is impossible for me or anyone else to answer the question - at least, in any meaningful way. I can obviously throw out an answer and say "You need this EC2 instance to host about 1m impressions a day", but I can guarantee you that you're only ever going to come back and tell me that it's too expensive for what you needed, or that it wasn't fast enough for what you needed. Never that it was a perfect fit. The only sensible advice I can give you is - experiment! AWS at least makes it really easy to put your image onto S3, and then try out different sized instances. So, start with what your best guess is the right size, and if it's too slow, think about how you could tune performance, or scale it up. If it easily copes, and the performance monitoring shows that it's under utilised, scale it down. I hope that helps.

Hi @hudini, I am pretty sure that Revive Adserver doesn't have this functionality. All you can do is limit the number of impressions that a visitor will see, either per session, or in total.

Hi @paradise, No, there's nothing you need to do re: header scripts or other settings. However, for zone chaining within Revive Adserver to work, you do need to have a situation where sometimes, a preceding zone in the chain needs to be unable to deliver a banner, to allow it to fall through to the next zone. Revive Adserver will only chain through to the next zone if it can't deliver a banner.

Hi @hudini, If you go to Statistics > Advertisers & Campaigns, then on that page, you can expand out the list of each Advertiser and Campaign, and then see each banner, by name. Unfortunately, there's no preview of the banner, or link to the banner's edit page here. Instead, I would advise that you use a consistent and meaningful naming system for your advertisers, campaigns and banners. That will make it easier to quickly identify what's what.

Hi @rgbob, In the UI, each zone has a "Probability" tab. This is a handy page for seeing what's linked to the zone, and if anything is likely to be displayed if the zone is invoked. Hope that helps.

Hi @paradise, Rather than putting all the advertisers in one zone, I would suggest you could do this by having advertisers pass back to a different zone?

Linking for completeness: https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/issues/423

Have you changed version of PHP on the new server from the old? And have you kept your php.ini settings the same, or have they changed as well?

Hi @bumbumndb, What port are you running your Revive Adserver on? There is a known issue with this on the latest version, which will be fixed in the upcoming 3.2.3 release: https://github.com/revive-adserver/revive-adserver/issues/639

Hi @[email protected], Correct, if you're trying to avoid your banners from blocking other content from loading, your only options are: Use an asynchronous tag;Use an iFrame tag; orPut any of the other tag types at the bottom of the page, and position them using CSS.Thanks for the good question - you inspired me to write a new HOWTO guide for Revive Adserver: http://documentation.revive-adserver.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8028175

Hi @swapnil147, Well, I would recommend that Revive Adserver would be a good choice for running an ad server - but then, I may be biased!

Hi @Gauri Padbidri, Hard to tell what might be wrong without the exact link (although I don't recommend you tell us here). If you load up the HREF link directly, what do you see? Anything in the web browser? Do you get any errors in the Revive Adserver logs, or in your webserver logs? Does your banner actually have a destination URL set?

Hi @Aussiemike, Please see https://www.revive-adserver.com/blog/translations-for-revive-adserver/ re: helping out with translations. Thanks!

Stand alone zone invocation codes should work without anything being added to the header. It's the "Single Page Call" invocation code that needs something added to the header.

There is some good advice here on what to do next: http://www.openxconsultant.com/blog/2011/10/what-to-do-when-you-suspect-your-openx-system-has-been-hacked/

http://documentation.revive-adserver.com/display/DOCS/No+Statistics

Hi @Moe, It's two zones - a horizontal one and a vertical one - displayed together and positioned so they form a "corner" without space between them. HTH

Hi @jmkonin, I'm not sure what you mean by ad network accounts - there's no longer the old OpenX Market, so that has been removed from Revive Adserver, but otherwise, all the other account management features remain the same. Perhaps you can give more details on what you're doing, and what's not working, that you used to be able to do, please?