On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Adam Powell wrote:
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> server and hopefully make it scalable for the future... I spoke to Monty
> about this, but the support is kinda expensive... would anybody be
> interested in this kind of thing, and what kind of prices are we looking at?
We had Monty at ValueClick for a few days, and it's highly
recommended. ;-)
> Basically, what we have is a banner rotation script written in PHP (v3.0.6
> to be exact), this is connecting to the database server with information
> about the banner, the site it is on, and retrieving a shortlist of banners
> to be displayed and selecting one at random. There are many factors about
> banner availability, subject area and hits/clicks per day to take into
> accounts... its a 250 line script and not easy to understand by any means..
My NDA keeps me from helping you, so I can only give a few hints:
Pre-calculation, distributed systems and optimizations of the data
structures (as Sasha also wrote).
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