slow loading ads

trying to integrate this on one of my sites, but it's soooo slow loading that's i had to yank it. here is is on a pae with nothing besides the ad... http://www.chella.com/testing.php

i mean... it's bad. any idea what could be wrong?

i created 1 account, posted the ads and got it working. the created by referral this new account, i have no idea what's the issue

 

differernt server, same hosting company, same datacenter. i host all my clients on the same server, except this one client, which has their own reseller account on a differernt server.

 

surely it's the server, i tried a differernt domain on that server and get the same exact problem.

any idea what i can mention to the host's support team?

 

struggling with this, when i remove it, all is well...

the file is writable, it works... it just takes 10 seconds to work.

 
 
if (is_writable ($ad_file)) {
$ads = file_get_contents ($ad_file);
$ads = explode ('<ad_break>', $ads);
 
if (count ($ads) < 101 || $ads[0] + 3600 < time()) {
$ads[] = file_get_contents ('http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?color=ffffff');
$ads[0] = time();
if (count ($ads) > 101) unset ($ads[1]);
$file = fopen($ad_file, 'w');
fwrite ($file, implode ('<ad_break>', $ads));
fclose ($file);
$ad_network = end ($ads);
} else {
$ad_network = $ads[rand(1,count($ads))];
}
$ad_network .= '<!-- an-hl -->';
} else {
$ad_network = 'You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable.';
}
if (substr ($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_NAME'], -6) == '.shtml') {
ini_set ('zlib.output_compression', 0);
echo $ad_network;
}
 
 

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support wrote this back....

  
 
I bet this line is the problem: 

$ads[] = file_get_contents ('[url="http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?color=ffffff');"][color=#0000ff]http://ads.digitalpoint.com/network.php?color=ffffff');[/color][/url]

Please try to replace the remote connection with an actual file on the server, just for testing and I bet you will receive a similar performance as on the server that works fine for you.
 

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I'm having the same issue with the file_get_contents...was there ever a fix for this?

 

Which php version are you using ?

I believe there were problems with that syntax in older versions of php