I'm having trouble getting on the Adcycle website to find out more about the banner plug-in that's been released, but I thought I could still get some opinions here.

My main concern about banners is the speed and load on my server. How processor intensive is the banner plug-in and will it slow down the loading of my pages on average?

My needs are pretty simple, probably no more than two dozen ads. The reason I ask, is that I've been to many popular sites and have had to wait for the banner to load before the rest of the site loads. I plan on promoting my site as a very fast, easy-to-use search system and I want to be careful to not add anything that will slow it down.

Is the adcycle program the fastest way to display banner ads? And if not, what would the fastest system be to display rotating banner ads? I've seen some programs that are available in C, and they claim that it is faster than Perl.

Or, am I overeacting with such a small number of ads? Does the number of ads make any difference at all, or is it related more to the number of viewers seeing the pages? MySql runs pretty fast on my server, so if this plug-in is using that will that make it run fast also?

Thanks,

Bryan