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This is a textbook example of why it's never smart to hinge one's profitability upon the whims of another company. I've been down these paths with Adsense, EPN
by zupreme 15y ago
This is a textbook example of why it's never smart to hinge one's profitability upon the whims of another company.
I've been down these paths with Adsense, EPN, and others and I learned the hard way that affiliate programs and ad revenue can be booming one day and gone the next.
Now I only build PaaS and SaaS sites (not counting freelancing work on the side) and I'm a lot happier with a much more stable income from my web apps that is not dependent on the whims of anybody.
- civilian 15y agoSaaS is "software as a service" but what is PaaS? Can you give an example?
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- farnsworth 15y agoPlatform as a service - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service
- borski 15y agoPaaS is "Platform-as-a-Service." Heroku is a good example.
- Mystitat 15y ago"Platform as a Service" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_as_a_service
- knowtheory 15y agoPlatform As A Service. Heroku & Amazon Web Services are both examples. In fact, they're nested examples!
- ghaff 15y agoActually, AWS is generally categorized as Infrastructure-as-a-Service--although it's added a number of higher-level services that are more PaaS-like. (EC2 and S3 are definitely IaaS level. Elastic Beanstalk is pretty much a PaaS. Other services are in-between.)
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- chapstick 15y agoPaaS is shorthand for Platform as a Service. Microsoft Azure and Amazon E2C are both examples of PaaS. A third service layer would be IaaS; Infrastructure as a Service.
- raldi 15y agohttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=paas&l=1 http://lmgtfy.com/?q=paas&l=1
- sanderson1 15y agohttp://www.pagodabox.com http://www.pagodabox.com
- vitalychernobyl 15y agoThis may help - http://lmgtfy.com/ http://lmgtfy.com/ (Sorry, couldn't help that :-D)
- ceejayoz 15y agohttp://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+not+to+be+a+dick http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+not+to+be+a+dick
- paulhauggis 15y agoMost of the people making a living using affiliates don't have the skills to make their own app or SaaS.
- zupreme 15y agoNeither did I 6 years ago when I was making affiliate sites. When I realized that I didn't want to play that game I buckled down and learned to code...
- paulhauggis 15y agoThat's the smart thing to do. You can still use all of the same marketing tactics as you would an affiliate program and the profits will be much larger.
- ceol 15y agoYour service is most definitely dependent on the whims of other people. Even Amazon relies on UPS, FedEx, and USPS.