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How to Disable OpenX Maintenance

It is recommended to disable maintenance during OpenX installation upgrading 
 
There are two types of OpenX maintenance:
 
1) Scheduled Maintenance
 
2) Automatic Maintenance

How to disable OpenX Scheduled Maintenance

In order to disable OpenX Scheduled Maintenance you should make changes in your cron job in order to prevent its triggering. On most systems it's enough to comment the line out with # at the beggining of the line.

Z_ tables in OpenX database

During upgrading, OpenX create many temporary tables. These tables usually starts with z_ followed by many random characters.

If the upgrading process passed without any issues and OpenX works fine next few days you are free to delete tables with z_ prefix.

How to delete z_ tables in OpenX database

You can delete OpenX z_ tables using user interface

1) Login as Administrator (read here how to login with administrator privileges in OpenX)

2) Click 'Product Updates' admin tab

3) Choose "Manage Past Updates and Backups"

How to re-enable OpenX User Interface

OpenX User Interface can be disabled in situations to prevent users from logging into the OpenX installation. In this situation the server only delivers banners and ads that are already created.

Third-party Ad Serving Explained

What is ad serving?

Online advertising, both paid search listings and banners, are constantly tracked for performance levels by third-party ad servers. Third party ad serving assists advertisers, publishers and users alike.

It is a complex online system enables these ad servers to deliver advertisements to your browser, and then reliably monitoring users behaviour associated with these ads after viewing them.

5 Tips For Using YouTube For Business

YouTube is the world's largest video sharing platform that generates more than 3 billion views every day. In fact, over 35 hours of footage is uploaded to YouTube every hour.

Yet despite these unbelievable user statistics, businesses still are not utilizing the benefits of video marketing enough. The majority of people would rather learn about a product or service through a video than text.