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[KDisk]

Hello All,
I have a server that is ending its end of life within the next month, I was thinking of offering free hosting to charities on the server as soon as all clients are migrated. I do not want to invest much into this project, so I am looking for a Free Application if Possible to include a few small ads on all customer web pages.

If it is an option, I would like ads in the following locations

• Header of All Pages
• Side Bar of All Pages
• Footer of Outgoing E-Mails (I am not sure if this is an Option)

[romes]

iPanel allows forced ads and people can signup for free hosting...Something to check into.

[KDisk]

I was looking at iAds (Dont need iPanel, WHMCS used here), but I am looking for a freewar/opensource product first

[Atarim]

I'm curious; how do you plan to approach the charities? It's an idea I've toyed around with before.

[KDisk]

Originally Posted by The Hosting Team

I'm curious; how do you plan to approach the charities? It's an idea I've toyed around with before.

I actually volunteer alot of my spare time helping at several charties and donate some of my proceeds. This allowed me to build a relationship with several.

If I set up a free service, the Ads could fund the server, and even fund a free .org domain. Of course the free domain will not be offered to everyone.

[ThatScriptGuy]

Why not use the mod_layout feature of Apache to automatically prepend or append your ad code to all vhosts?

[KDisk]

Originally Posted by kcackler

Why not use the mod_layout feature of Apache to automatically prepend or append your ad code to all vhosts?

I woulld but I could never figure out how to do that without breaking some of my customers scripts. I also want to be able to control the ads based on plan.

[RandyCram]

Do use kcackler says but use OpenX (openx.org) to control your advertisements.