For those who didn’t know yet, 1and1.com has launched a huge sales contest for their affiliates. They are giving away a trip for two to Jamaica, a big screen TV, a laptop computer, an iPhone and many other prizes.

As mentionned on GoogleLady’s blog, there have been some negative comments about 1and1 but there’s been also quite a few positive ones to.

It reminded me of my mechanic who was putting down one of its competitor saying that a lot of people complained about them. This competitor had like 100 times more customers than my mechanic so guess what? They probably had more unsatisfied customers but the fact that they are still in business today and that they are still the biggest business around shows that they must be doing something right. Chances are they have more satisfied customers too…

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For those who didn’t know, the OpenAds project has now changed name for OpenX. The developers have decided to rebrand the product in order to gain more flexibility.

I was a bit unconfortable to upgrade to OpenX as a name change gives you the impression it might be a total different application but in fact, it’s simply OpenAds 2.4.4. So since I’ve got OpenAds 2.4.3 installed, it should be no problem.

I always keep a good backup of my websites so restoring OpenAds to its previous version is going to be quick if I need to do it. By the way, I always have my servers upload a daily, weekly and monthly backup to my workstation so that I always have a backup handy.

For those who use a phpAdsNew or older OpenAds version than 2.4.3, please read OpenX documentation.

Basically, the upgrade process is pretty straightforward:

1. Grab yourself a copy of OpenX.
2. Extract the files from the archive and upload them to your web server, overwriting the previous installation.
3. Point your browser to the root of your OpenX installation directory.
4. Go through the setup wizard. You may have some folder permissions to set.

That’s pretty much it. I didn’t need to update the invocation code in my web pages.

By the way, if you haven’t upgraded to PHP5 yet, it’s time you start thinking about it. OpenX has a discussion about supporting PHP5 exclusively. Read more about it here.

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