BQ Internet Corporation is commercial web hosting company which is starting a free hosting service, paid for by standard banner advertisements. As a benefit to our users, we would like to allow the option to share profits from the banners at certain traffic levels. More information is available at http://www.bqinternet.com/freehosting/

Thanks.

BQ Internet is starting a free hosting service ( http://www.bqinternet.com/freehosting/ )to be supported by standard banner ads, and we thought we would ask for an opinion on this forum. We are considering sharing profits from the banner ads with our users. Is this something that would interest a lot of people? If so, how should we split the profits from the banners? Thanks for your input.

This has been done before, don't remember their name but they really got popular ( even had an affiliate program with CJ ).

I think it will be hard for you to do any profit at all. A FWP is too much untargetted ( and the visitors to such a site isn't worth **** ) so finding advertisers would be close to impossible. Before trying to administer a profit sharing scheme, start it up and see if you get any profit at all.

www.terrashare.com was the one.

I don thtink you will find it profitable, seeing as 'classic' freehosts are going under and all :)

Originally posted by Mester
www.terrashare.com was the one.


Thank you for that. Now I could let that go off my head - unwillingly been thinking what their name was all night here...

Well, I don't know if it will be profitable, but perhaps the costs can be covered and the service can be used as a launch pad for more profitable services. With hard drives prices what they are, what amount of disk space would people consider good? What percentage do you think people actually end up using?

Guess you have been to freewebspace.net . If not you might want to compare and see what others are offering.

Extra stuff ( not being just any FWP ) is what can get you a lot of users in a short time, I would guess. Like ASP/PHP/CGI.


but perhaps the costs can be covered and the service can be used as a launch pad for more profitable services

This idea sounds more sane :)

I don't know about ASP, but PHP and perl scripts are certainly possibilities. How many people really look for ASP support from a free host?

bqinternet,

wish you all the best, but just a fool's opinion ...

the disk or hardware wont cost you so much .. it si the bandwidth that will kill you

and free host lovers are just the kind to go on hogging resources.. so dont give scripts or anything.. just plain html hosting of www.yourdomain.com would still attract a lot of sign ups

Cheers
Balaji