Hi HNers, At my day job we were using a commercial ad server. It was quite good, but also incredibly expensive, and even though it is hosted fairly close to our data center it was also quite slow (speed of light, etc etc). I decided to take a stab at building my own, and this attempt is what you can find under the name of Kleio. It's an ad server that is focused on letting you add support for sponsored products to your product. It's not well-suited for classic banner ads, or if you want to connect to a third-party ad exchange or anything of that kind. So a typical user of Kleio would be a company either with a storefront where they sell products and want to give the suppliers a chance to highlight their product, a job listing site, or any other type of classifieds site. My goal with Kleio is to make something that's conceptually simple, and incredibly fast (I am trying to get all auctions to complete in less than 1 ms and since you host it yourself, network latencies also become less of an issue). I would greatly appreciate any feedback. Both on the product itself (that would be grand!) and also on the positioning, feature set, ease of use, etc. You can find a quickstart guide at [1], and a list of cases it's well suited for and which it's not a good fit for here [2]. |