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You may own the domain, but you still have to find some way to store the files and serve the necessary bandwidth. That's why you have to pay extra. However, $75

You may own the domain, but you still have to find some way to store the files and serve the necessary bandwidth. That's why you have to pay extra. However, $75 or $99 is excessive. Hostgator charges less than 3 bucks a month, you'd be much better off with a small shared hosting like that.

masukomi 10y ago
um... medium hosts the files and handles the necessary bandwidth already. Adding a custom domain doesn't change that at all. I don't disagree that you'd be better off with other sites but those are NOT the reasons it costs $75
- noahjk 10y ago
  There's loss of control when medium isn't the apex domain anymore. For instance, users are less likely to see other medium stories because of how segmented you are. I don't see an issue with a one time fee for these reasons.
- Chaebixi 10y ago
  I think custom domains are a tool for price segmentation* (like a student discount). Medium and Wordpress want offer a free product (for marketing/network effects), but also have their higher-end users pay. They do that by limiting a few features their higher-end users need to the premium product to force them to buy. In this case, it's custom domain that lets you look more professional. You see this with email too. Want to use your own domain and look like a real business (vs. some dude with small-time aspirational business-hobby run off of gmail)? Then you pay $5 a month or spend your time being a sysadmin. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
paulcole 10y ago
>Hostgator charges less than 3 bucks a month $75 is a one time charge. Admittedly, OP is unlikely to maintain a blog for 3 years and Medium is even more unlikely to be around in 2020 but $75 one time sounds better to me than $3/month forever.

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You may own the domain, but you still have to find some way to store the files and serve the necessary bandwidth. That's why you have to pay extra. However, $75

by dirktheman 10y ago

masukomi 10y ago
um... medium hosts the files and handles the necessary bandwidth already. Adding a custom domain doesn't change that at all. I don't disagree that you'd be better off with other sites but those are NOT the reasons it costs $75
- noahjk 10y ago
  There's loss of control when medium isn't the apex domain anymore. For instance, users are less likely to see other medium stories because of how segmented you are. I don't see an issue with a one time fee for these reasons.
- Chaebixi 10y ago
  I think custom domains are a tool for price segmentation* (like a student discount). Medium and Wordpress want offer a free product (for marketing/network effects), but also have their higher-end users pay. They do that by limiting a few features their higher-end users need to the premium product to force them to buy. In this case, it's custom domain that lets you look more professional. You see this with email too. Want to use your own domain and look like a real business (vs. some dude with small-time aspirational business-hobby run off of gmail)? Then you pay $5 a month or spend your time being a sysadmin. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
paulcole 10y ago
>Hostgator charges less than 3 bucks a month $75 is a one time charge. Admittedly, OP is unlikely to maintain a blog for 3 years and Medium is even more unlikely to be around in 2020 but $75 one time sounds better to me than $3/month forever.