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tumble
03-16-2006, 11:49 AM
Was not sure were to place this post so I will place it here.

After years of work on my site. I had decided to go with a VPS to host it.
My site is free to the world and of course makes no money I am good with this.

After seeing what resources are used for my site and future expansions?
I had some left over resources.

I then decided to use these left resources to sponsor sites. This is cool I like helping folks
So I start sponsoring sites.

I am looking at me server and decide to split up the remains left over sections into 2 different sections. I now have.

1st section= my site
2nd section= sponsored sites
3rd section=?

The 3rd section is the one I am having problems with.
What I have left over for section 3 is 5G of space and 300G of bandwidth.

I figure I could split up the 3rd section into 15 sites with 300MB space and 10G band.
I do not wish to become a host provider since the work involved is way too intense.

I thought that I could offer no frills hosting which basically means no support.
No fancy web hosting page. Sure you could ask me a question but chances are I would not know the answer.
Of course network issues always get support.

Really one would be paying for only a clean pipe. And a non overtaxed CPU.

My question to all the professionals out there is:

Is it even worth my time to sell these items?

If it is not worth my time any suggestions on what I can use section 3 for?

I do have WHM/Cpanel Installed on the server.

Thank you,
tumble

Lubby
03-16-2006, 12:53 PM
There are a ton of ways to use that space. Depending on what your first main site is you could offer free email accounts, or use the space to somehow improve your main site and its traffic. You could start an image host, you could offer free hosting with a text link back to your site, or place google ads on their sites. In a lot of ways it depends what your other site is.

tumble
03-16-2006, 01:22 PM
My main site is (gotcanyons.net)

Month usage usally averages around 250G band usage a month. Most of my hits come from message boards.

I use section 2 as a "free host" And all that is required is placing a text link back to my main site. The reason why i call it sponsered is that i am picky about whom i
give free space to. section 2 i devoloped so others could place a vison and or a piece of themselfs on the web. So this why no goggle ads are needed.

section 3 of course i would like to put to work. $ is of course the main decsion in creating section number 3. Min amount of $ at a average amount of work. I am good with this concept for section 3.



tumble

datapimp
03-17-2006, 02:38 AM
Really one would be paying for only a clean pipe.I think that's illegal in most places in the U.S. with the exception of some counties in Nevada.

tumble
03-17-2006, 11:39 AM
I think that's illegal in most places in the U.S. with the exception of some counties in Nevada.

Wish i could use the a laughing icon. but yea that is some funny stuff :)