What alternatives are there?

I've looked around and haven't found much at all

What version option were you using the hosted or self hosted application?
What would be the safer option ?

AdPeeps is pretty good.

Self hosted and I think the version that got hacked was 2.8.4 .

That's really interesting, because a good friend told me about this about 3 years ago, and then another recommended it a couple of weeks ago - and now you :)

Sending them questions now :)

Thanks LD

I wonder how much easier PhpAdsNew was? Now that I'm starting to dial in OpenX it seems to just make sense. I haven't setup target stuff based on what's in the URL. Which I need to do for setting up content delivery to my link lists. However, as of right now the way I'm using it I'm pretty happy with how things are running.

Being able to split test banners and see which one gets better click thru is just awesome. Or during promotions I can just cram a spot with a certain sponsor is really nice too. |thumb

I will say though it's been kinda of a bitch to wrap my head around and there is still a ton of stuff I bet it can do that I have no clue about.

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