openx

We're using OpenX to serve ads on a number of sites. If the OpenX server has problems, however, it blocks page loads on these sites. I'd rather have the sites fail gracefully, i.e. load the pages without the ads and fill them in when they become available. We're using OpenX's single page call , and we're giving divs explicit size in CSS so they can be laid out without their contents, but still loading the script blocks page load. Are there other best practices for speeding up pages with OpenX? OpenX has some documentation on how to make their tags load asynchronously: http://docs.openx.com/ad

We all want to make our site faster, google showed a few samples here: http://code.google.com/speed/articles/html5-performance.html We use OpenX to serve ads, so, assuming browser supporting (FF3.6+), I presume we can just modify the OpenX ad tag from : <script type='text/javascript'> ... ad codes </script> into <script type='text/javascript' async> ... ad codes </script> Will that do the job? Is there a better way to load scripts asynchronously? Unfortunately OpenX uses document.write to do most of its work. This means that it will attempt to write at whatever point in the flow its currently

My ad server has been hacked over the weekend. It seems to be a widespread problem, according to this article . There is something in there that got me thinking... Attackers used one attack to get login rights to his server, and then uploaded a maliciously encoded image that contained a PHP script hidden inside it, he said. By viewing the image, attackers forced the script to execute on the server How is this possible? Does it rely on the image being opened with GD or similar? Do they upload a script posing as an image, and somehow include it? VolkerK It can be as simple as uploading a file