If the system drops-- so do the ads you are pulling on-the-fly. The good news? If their system drops-- they are probably not tracking stats that well. what is the alternative? Port the data to a local database-- daily. Why do I like the web services option-- I write the code once and pull from them on-the-fly. Also less taxing to my own servers which is also a major concern. I am having problems accessing cj after today's maintenance alert. Anyone else? Q...