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I dont understand something. There are countless forums and sites that ask for donations for hosting costs, and then on the other hand there are countless anon
by user- 3y ago
I dont understand something. There are countless forums and sites that ask for donations for hosting costs, and then on the other hand there are countless anon fileupload sites like this which happily store gigs of files/user without asking for money or putting up ads.
Whats the incentive for these sites? How do they stay operational?
- calgarymicro 3y agoWell, this one does have a donations button. Granted it looks like they're only getting a net 9.52 euros a week.
- detaro 3y agoThis site also asks for donations. > How do they stay operational? By not growing too large (so costs don't explode) and the owner not minding to pay a bit to run it. Which usually means that they don't stay operational long-term-ish, or introduce stricter and stricter limits. Image hosting sites are something where one could observe this very well over the years: an image hosting site launches and is fast and simple, operator offers generous service for free. Lots of people start using it. Bandwidth costs explode. Site adds advertising, cuts down on hotlinking, strictly limits free tiers ... to make some money back. Users get annoyed. Among them is a techy who thinks: "I can pay for a server or two, I'll launch a better image hosting site, without all the ads!". Such repeats the cycle of life (of image hosting sites) Scale really hurts here - many people can easily run a service that doesn't have too many users (or many users that don't create much load) for years, but scale quickly pushes it out the side-hobby-thing budget.
- from 3y ago> Whats the incentive for these sites? How do they stay operational? Intelligence gathering operation?