Ad-Free free webhosting providers

Plead · 09-13-2004, 11:11 PM

I was just curious about people that provide free webhosting with no ads.

How is this supported?

I understand people that also have paid plans but I see many free hosting providers who just provide flat out ad free hosting, what is their goal and how are they supposed to survive?

Any input is welcome

**maxhest** · 09-13-2004, 11:23 PM

Possibly off maybe free users will become paid one day. It happened to me, also word-of-mouth works very well. They can spread the word about your great company!

LP-Trel · 09-13-2004, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Plead

I was just curious about people that provide free webhosting with no ads.

How is this supported?

I understand people that also have paid plans but I see many free hosting providers who just provide flat out ad free hosting, what is their goal and how are they supposed to survive?

Any input is welcome

This is sort of an odd question. Asking your competitors for their business models so you can compete with them?

Totally advertisement free webhosting is usually very limited and is supported by email marketing, paid upgrades or somesuch like that.

Plead · 09-13-2004, 11:40 PM

No, I have no interest in providing ad free hosting.

I never thought about it as trade secrets though :p

Thanks for the input

LP-Trel · 09-13-2004, 11:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Plead

No, I have no interest in providing ad free hosting.

I never thought about it as trade secrets though :p

Thanks for the input

No worries but, you'd be surprised how many of these types of questions I see or get sent personally. Its amazing how many people want you to hand them your business model so they can open up a competing service. Now I have no problem with competition but, I'm not going to help you open your service just so you can compete with me.

Plead · 09-14-2004, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by LP-Trel

No worries but, you'd be surprised how many of these types of questions I see or get sent personally. Its amazing how many people want you to hand them your business model so they can open up a competing service. Now I have no problem with competition but, I'm not going to help you open your service just so you can compete with me.

Haha, I can imagine. I guess you could compare this to KFC giving out their secret recipe :p

LP-Trel · 09-14-2004, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Plead

Haha, I can imagine. I guess you could compare this to KFC giving out their secret recipe :p

Thats a pretty good analogy really. It would be sort of like that but, not on that scale of course. KFC's recipe is worth alot more.. mmm.. chicken.

nick · 09-14-2004, 12:34 AM

I'm by no means a free webhosting expert....but....one of the trends now is requiring X posts on your forum per week/month..when you do this, you create visitors..and run ads on your forums.

Most people won't tolerate ads on their sites anymore.

LP-Trel · 09-14-2004, 12:39 AM

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Originally Posted by nick

I'm by no means a free webhosting expert....but....one of the trends now is requiring X posts on your forum per week/month..when you do this, you create visitors..and run ads on your forums.

Most people won't tolerate ads on their sites anymore.

There are some that won't tolerate forum posts either. It is all in your target audience.

Plead · 09-14-2004, 12:40 AM

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Originally Posted by nick

I'm by no means a free webhosting expert....but....one of the trends now is requiring X posts on your forum per week/month..when you do this, you create visitors..and run ads on your forums.

Most people won't tolerate ads on their sites anymore.

Ahh yes, the good old post2host host.

I have nothing against them really, just that some of them aren't run too well. There are others that are run great.