I'm working on a loathsome site right now where the client wants seventeen ads on each page. Yes, it's horrible, but I have to deal with it. Each ad location on each page is sold individually; therefore, we need the ads to not shuffle; therefore, I had to create an ad group for each slot, and a channel for each page.

So I have seventeen ad group blocks on the home page. When I use Javascript or jQuery to display the ads, performance is horrendous. I thought I would try Raw mode to see if it improved performance, but when I turn it on, all the ads disappear and I get the "No active ads" comments in the HTML.

Is this because I'm using channels? I saw another issue where someone issued a bounty and got someone to write them a custom adserve.inc, and I tried that file, but it doesn't work.

Any advice?

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jeremy’s picture

jeremy commented

For best performance, read the documentation to get the file cache working. ad_cache_file. It's a lot more performant, and will be essential if you wish to display multiple ads on the same page. There's also an ad_cache_memcache module that can cache the ads in memcache, but that's only going to be necessary if you have multiple web servers.

lrwebks’s picture

lrwebks commented
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Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

Drupal 6 is EOL and no longer supported. Closing this as outdated for that reason. Thanks for your contribution!