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11-12-2009, 05:27 AM #1Newbie
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how do free web hosting providers make money?
Hi,
This is my first post here on WHT.
I have often wondered how free hosting providers make any money?
Would anybody like to share their thoughts?
Cheers
Steve
PS. I did not put any examples of free hosting providers, just in case I broke the TOS of this forum.0
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11-12-2009, 05:36 AM #2Temporarily Suspended
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11-12-2009, 05:54 AM #3Newbie
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Sometime they make money when free users join their premium (paid) service.
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11-12-2009, 05:55 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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Free webhosting site hosts can make money in other ways, such as putting banners, popups, or popunders ads on your free webpages.
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11-12-2009, 06:08 AM #5Junior Guru
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Advertising is the major way to make money.
Or some free hosts limit the feature on the plan to encourage their customer become paid ones.█ HostEase Hosting - Professional Web Hosting
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11-12-2009, 06:25 AM #6Web Hosting Master
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It is generally very difficult for them to make money. Most that are "successful" would simply be loss leaders for up-selling to paid hosting.
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11-12-2009, 06:31 AM #7Web Hosting Guru
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As per my knowledge they place ads on your pages + they ask you to post on your forum. They offer that with paid web hosting services also and once you need to upgrade you will need to move to the paid web hosting account
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11-12-2009, 06:36 AM #8Cloud & Web Hosting Specialist
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Some free hosting providers earn money by selling their business after they have accumulated a certain amount of active users.
You will be able to obtain more answers on this question if you have over to forums specifically for free hosting, eg. FreeWHT.com and FreeWebSpace.net.[ James Lee - Cloud & Web Hosting Specialist • 10+ Years WHT Veteran]
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11-12-2009, 06:42 AM #9Web Hosting Guru
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11-12-2009, 06:59 AM #10Cloud & Web Hosting Specialist
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Well if you monitor some sale of free hosting companies in the offers forum, you will notice that the previous owners will normally not put up any advertisements as they want to attract more active users to use their services, but once it is sold they will encourage the new owner to put up ads and let them know how much they can earn from putting up ads in the large active client base.
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11-12-2009, 07:27 AM #11Junior Guru Wannabe
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SO there is three ways how to get profit from free hosting.
How about paying for services, but not for hosting.Let's say some software instalation, some cms instalations?
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11-12-2009, 07:39 AM #12Junior Guru
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Ads and Account Upgrades.
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11-12-2009, 08:24 AM #13Web Hosting Master
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They make most of their money from adverts and account upgrade.
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11-12-2009, 10:06 AM #14Temporarily Suspended
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Some free hosts offer paid accounts as add-on with extra and premium features.
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11-12-2009, 10:37 AM #15Retired Moderator
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Closing thread. Please join www.freewht.com for discussions about free hosting. Webhostingtalk.com focuses on paid hosting. Thank you for your understanding, and sorry for the inconvenience!
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