I've done data recovery, it takes a lot less than a year for deleted files to degrade.

I've recovered files from ntfs file systems 3 years after they've been deleted.

So, if you believe in this idea so strongly, create it yourself.

Just remember that you have to take into account little things like:
- fraud prevention
- interfacing with wildly varying ad servers with wildly different features and wildly different conventions for ad calls
- the need to pull inappropriate ads from the cached ad queue asynchronously
- proper reporting of ads actually delivered
- proper ad rotation, which will depend on ads have actually been delivered
- handling rotation limited ad deliveries
- different webserver environments (IIS, apache, yadda, yadda, yadda.)
- and many, many more...

Can most of this be done? Actually it is possible, although I suspect that the resulting adserver would be feature limited (remember, it needs to work across all kinds of different webservers) and there are some features that cannot be implemented without a central adserver to coordinate the data.) The end result might be something that is too complex for websites to actually implement.

One of the biggest barriers would be the website owners. They don't want to mess with their servers just so they can deliver ads. Contrast installing something to manage the cached delivery of ads pulled from some ad providers adserver vs doing something like adding two lines of javascript (one to load the ad delivery library and one to make an actual ad call.

It all seems simple until you actually have to implement it.

Don't consider marring this hypochondriac and having children with her. She'll pass that insanity onto the kids.

Find a healthy girlfriend.

Basically, when the site crashed, he had three copies (2 RAID, 1 backup) of the data: all corrupt. The guy wasn't totally retarded when it came to backups, just 80% retarded.

No, no. He was still 100% retarded.

If you don't test your backups, it means you don't have backups.

Anyone with an ounce of sense and a modicum of experience will realize that ol' Murphy plays merry havoc with even the best of plans.

If the data is important, you have to assume everything can and will go tits up - probably all at the same time so your backup plans have to take this into account.

sit down to use it after lunch then look up surprised when 40 minutes have gone by and I'm late for my next meeting.

That's because the browser and network are quite slow.

distributed defense.

Denyhosts. ( http://www.denyhosts.net/ ).

It works.

I want whatever drugs they are having! They seem pretty zippy!