Hosting Free Sites ?

Forum4hosts · Post #1 (**permalink**) 07-26-2002, 11:01 AM

Has anybody hosted some high traffic sites for free, in request for an advert, hoping that the banenr will generate enough evenue to cover the cost of hosting the free site ? I have been offered several similar contracts, and still have to decide!

Matt

Forum4Hosts-Jo · Post #2 (**permalink**) 07-26-2002, 02:31 PM

we have hosted a few sites for free, not particulary high bandwidth but with the hope of advertising paying off, didnt work though

Forum4hosts · Post #3 (**permalink**) 07-26-2002, 03:28 PM

Ok thanx Jo, how long have you been hosting them for ? Maybe you need more time. Im thinking of months before i make my money back.

Matt

Forum4Hosts-Jo · Post #4 (**permalink**) 07-26-2002, 03:31 PM

I have been hosting a few for nearly a year now :?

Forum4hosts · Post #5 (**permalink**) 07-26-2002, 03:34 PM

Thanx, i think you have helped me make my decision, lets hope its the right one. Or maybe i could just give them a discount ?

Matt

mark · Post #6 (**permalink**) 07-28-2002, 05:08 PM

We're hosting <a href='http://dmos.org' target='_blank'>http://dmos.org</a> for a friend for free. The advertising is mainly in the hosting section but we haven't really seen it pay dividends as yet.

phugo · Post #7 (**permalink**) 08-06-2002, 05:14 PM

host sites for free to get in return adversing is not too good, sites who get alot of visits can pay for hosting (usually)

Kevin · Post #8 (**permalink**) 08-06-2002, 09:47 PM

dmos.org -- sounds familiar...

Forum4Hosts-Jo · Post #9 (**permalink**) 08-07-2002, 04:01 AM

too right it sounds familiar, i bet they get a lot of the hits intended for dmoz, if you can get away with it its a good way to get a lot of hits

Andrew · Post #10 (**permalink**) 08-07-2002, 07:48 AM

If memory serves Yahoo! took some dude to court cos he had something like 100 odd typo domains around yahoo (ie, yavoo.com)

Cant really see dmoz getting annoyed mind.

mark · Post #11 (**permalink**) 08-07-2002, 08:43 AM

Yeh - i don't think they'll really bother to do anything about it.

Zogg · Post #12 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 03:25 AM

Quote:

dmos.org -- sounds familiar...

And the site doesn't resolve..

Cannot find Server..

mark · Post #13 (**permalink**) 08-09-2002, 06:46 AM

Are you sure....
C

ocuments and SettingsAdministrator>nslookup www.dmos.org
Server: cache1.ntli.net
Address: 194.168.4.100

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.dmos.org
Address: 217.206.205.14

Looks fine from here.

Zogg · Post #14 (**permalink**) 08-12-2002, 06:45 AM

Seems to be working fine now.

Must've caught it at a bad time??

mark · Post #15 (**permalink**) 08-13-2002, 04:14 AM

That site hasn't been down for months - must have been an outage enroute somewhere.
Cheers