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Put another way, are there situations where you can have boatloads of traffic and not make enough to pay for the bandwidth? Do eyeballs really mean all that muc
by qeorge 17y ago
Put another way, are there situations where you can have boatloads of traffic and not make enough to pay for the bandwidth? Do eyeballs really mean all that much every time?
Bandwidth is really cheap, so even the worst monetization can cover a $10/month shared hosting account. But that still doesn't mean its worth your time.
For example, I used to own FakePosters.com (not affiliated with the current owners). It started as an SEO experiment, but the traffic grew to several million uniques a month with very little work on my end (StumbleUpon can push way more traffic than most people realize).
Sounds great, but unfortunately these type of visitors just don't click on ads. The site easily covered its $10/month shared hosting bill, and made about $150/month at its peak, but 1500 bucks a year is hardly worth the time it took to run, not to mention the dubious legality of posting photos you don't own a clear copyright on. So I closed the site after 1 year and sold the domain off for $1k. I'm happy with the way it worked out, but I don't plan on a repeat performance.
So if I were you, I'd move to cheap shared hosting and move on. 100k hits is nothing your ISP should be complaining about.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI'm paying $30 a month for 50GB. If I understand you, it sounds like I should be shopping around for better hosting.
- weaksauce 17y agoJust a cheap $20 linode account will give you 200GB. you can offload the pictures to a slice or amazon S3 and you should be better off than the $30/mo. It is a bit apples to oranges because I don't know what the specs are on your current hosting.(like how many domains they give you, the speed of the actual data center connections to the outside world, redundancy, etc....) The slice way is probably not for everyone because you will need to setup and manage the server but for the easy route you can offload the large images to S3 and that should be fairly cheap for that.
- qeorge 17y agoThat would work, but I'd probably go even cheaper and get a basic HostGator account or something similar (~$10/month). Really depends on what your needs are (you won't get SSH with shared hosting, but you'll have all the bandwidth / disk space you need). But 100k pageviews a month is nothing, and no host should be giving you a hard time about that. If you're hogging the CPU, that would be a more reasonable complaint. In general, its always a good idea to reevaluate your hosting. Chances are there's a better deal going, much like cable or phone service, and its a good fire drill to change hosts now and then.