I know companies like everyone.net offer cobranded message boards and e-mail where a site gets part of the banner impressions.
Can anyone suggest a similar service that uses cobranding to provide free hosting such as example.yoursite.com
where you get to reinforce your brand while offering free webpage services to your visitors and get some ad revenue too?

I doubt any such thing exists. The money to be made from providing free webhosting is rather minimal as it is, so I doubt anyone providing such would want to reduce their income any further.

ok, I stand corrected, such sites do exist. I still don't see how they can make any money given the current advertising market though.

[Edited by cperciva on 03-09-2001 at 05:33 AM]

If companies can offer cobranded message boards and e-mail services supported by ads and split revenue, then why wouldn't such services be possible for content sites? People respond to ads on content sites more so than on message boards or when checking e-mail.

Hello
We currently use two companies for this:

http://www.excelland.com/
http://www.communityarchitect.com/

Community Architect are by farthe best but they require your site to already have a large number of visitors before they will consider you.
Excelland take anybody, but their servers are a lot slower and the code they use for the interfaces is buggy.

Gordon

Originally posted by GordonH

http://www.excelland.com/
http://www.communityarchitect.com/


I think Community Architect may be just what you're looking for. I was thinking of using them myself. The answers to my questions I sent them weren't really answered too well, or too quickly, so I dropped the idea. Still thinking about them, unless someone has a better option They actually offer a few things as well as hosting like guestbooks and chat rooms if I remember correctly so they're not a bad option.

Oh we didn't get buzzed too much on the traffic issue either. Either we just *looked* like a high traffic site, or they didn't care :)

Greg Moore