Thread: Free hosting for members

I have been reading a lot of messages where our members have been talking about free hosting and all that ...

There is no such thing as free hosting... there will always be a catch.

I have been thinking about doing this ever since we started the online jobs forum.

I would like to provide free hosting to our members with nothing to payatall... But the problem now is that we have 28000+ members and even if only 2-3% of them come farward to get free hosting I would go bankrupt with a few months

Can some one come up with some ideas so that we can keep the total number of free hosting candidates to less then 50? or may be 100 after some time...

What criteria can we have on who gets it and who doesnt?


I cannot start this before the 1st of November as I am a bit too busy with some other stuff which will all be done and dusted by end of October and in between I have to go to UK aswell and this adventure of free hosting will need a lot of time to do due to the sheer number of members who will show interest.

Any good suggestions are welcome... I am most interested in suggestions about what criteria shall we have on who gets it..

There also another thing... how much space and how much bandwidth should every one get?

The main purpose of providing this hosting free of cost is to take off the burden of a start up from those who are going to try out the ideas I post in the online jobs section in future and they can get free hosting in the begening and once they start making enough money they can then move their site from our server and buy hosting else where as they would be able to afford paid hosting by then as soon as they start making some good money from their website.

So all in all the suggestions we need are:

Who should get it (no more then 50-100 members would get it in the begining may be more depending on how much it costs)
how much space
how much bandwidth
how many domains should be allowed to be hosted


You can also add your own suggestions.


For those who have doubts on why would I do this... I dont have an answer to this... I would just get great satisfaction knowing that I got some one started up with making money from a website And I would make a lot of friends in the process.

my god..awesome!!..i never thought u wud come up with this kind of idea..

who shud get the prevailage??

hmm..this is a tricky question..if u decide on people's post-count..they can easily make it to your minimum requirement or even might exceed it within a day or two..matter of hrs...i think it wud be good to see the date of joining or the amount of intrest the person is showing or his/her profession, like if he's a student like me (:P)....

how much space??

nothing much around 10-20mb is enough to the beginners i guess, or upto 50mb if u can afford

how much bandwidth??

i dont know!!..u decide...

how many domains??

none!!..atleast we'l buy domains..lol...

wat say admin..

When I said how many domain I didint mean I would buy domains for members... I mean how many domains should one be allowed to host on this free space we provide.

Normally there are restrictions on the number of domains you can host in a hosting account.

yaa...just one domain na or two at max..

OMG... Admin, if u could really provide a free hosting for the members that wud b awesome and would really help the community, for those trying to start their business online.... like me .

i agree with 'mahehellraiser', only one domain is enough for now per member.
10/20 mb max is enuf for starters. Bandwidth...hmmm.. depends on your budget.

Thanx... keep up the gud work :14::14::14: (..btw Excuse ma English:clown

how exactly are try ing to do this hosting, do u hav a unlimited domain hosting, whre multiple domains can be hosted from one hosting package?

At this point I can suggest that you hand pick the members,
as cost and space is 'THE' issue in this regards.

So...What will be the modus operandi of picking the members?

I suggest that whoever requires hosting services should make an application
here or any place of your convenience where you could view it.

The Applicant mentions the general idea of What/ How/ Why, etc.
he or she wants to use the hosting services that you are trying to provide
them for 'Free'. Based on the facts mentioned on applications (which will be
flooded towards you ) you pick up the ones you find fit to get the freebie.
Maybe something like picking up only 5-10 applicants weekly so that you are
not over burdened should also be considered You can add more filters along
with the suggestion I put up here.

I need not caution you that it is the initial spam of applications you will get
in the above mentioned method which you will really have to work through,
hopefully it eases up later on.

Why I suggest this method? Well, since it is you who is taking the initiative
to open a gateway to the members of this board, I personally believe that
you have the full right to decide/ choose who should be let to use this
opportunity based on what kind of application is put across to you.

Either you can choose this or any part of this method, whatever makes it
easier for you By the way, great thinking there Admin & may the desired
members makes best use of this oppurtunity :thumbup1:

Jet§

I dont want to belooking at peoples projects and all that ... I would like this to ve transparent with no room for complaints ...

I would like to have a criteria her eon this forum some how and I have no clue where to start...

May be amount of reputation or number of posts may be and or the period of time the member has been registered for...

I dont know what it would be thats the reason I am here asking for opinions


Suggestions please....

hey answer my Q

Dear Admin,

Thank you for your initiatives in this regard. I was just stuned by this announcement.

Originally Posted by Admin

There is no such thing as free hosting... there will always be a catch.

I completely agree on this point.

Your criteria to select those 50 to 100 people might be chosen in the way that *Jet* has already described. I'm sure your vision is not to stop with those 50 to 100 people. If all those 50 started earning, you are sure going to continue the same for the next 50.

So as *Jet* mentioned, I'd like to see a separate thread for applications with their business model

1. The niche/theme
2. The target visitors
3. The time duration they need to make it live in case you give him/her permission to host the domain in your server/account
4. Other details that can be revealed to the public (some might not want to give their ideas in public).
5. Probably with a domain name registered, if it's been done already.

You could inform the members that the more details they provide, more the chances of getting into the list of 50 - 100. Other members can even vote/comment for the idea brought up by that particular member.

Hope this helps,

Pothi.

Originally Posted by pothi

Dear Admin,

Thank you for your initiatives in this regard. I was just stuned by this announcement.



I completely agree on this point.

Your criteria to select those 50 to 100 people might be chosen in the way that *Jet* has already described. I'm sure your vision is not to stop with those 50 to 100 people. If all those 50 started earning, you are sure going to continue the same for the next 50.

So as *Jet* mentioned, I'd like to see a separate thread for applications with their business model

1. The niche/theme
2. The target visitors
3. The time duration they need to make it live in case you give him/her permission to host the domain in your server/account
4. Other details that can be revealed to the public (some might not want to give their ideas in public).
5. Probably with a domain name registered, if it's been done already.

You could inform the members that the more details they provide, more the chances of getting into the list of 50 - 100. Other members can even vote/comment for the idea brought up by that particular member.

Hope this helps,

Pothi.

I do not like the idea of asking members to part with such details. This free space should be unconditional and with no approval required or anything from me or anyone else... I am looking for a criteria so that if a member passes that criteria he/she gets the space for a year or two years and thats it... no room for any interference on hat the member's project is and who am I to decide wether a project will be successfull or not.

Originally Posted by sb21pro

hey answer my Q

No I do not have any unlimited thing. I will get a seperate server for this from layeredtech or the planet and use that box for providing hosting.

By the way no host can provide you an unlimited amount of space and nor can a shared hosting account give yu unlimited bandwidth.

They are all marketing gimmick to net people like you.

I think you can make it on basis of

• Usage/ Need/ Requirement
• Tenure on forum
• Number of Posts
• Repo

i meant, domains not storage
there there are ways to host multiple domains from a single hosting account.
not redirect, totally different sites

Originally Posted by Admin

I do not like the idea of asking members to part with such details. This free space should be unconditional and with no approval required or anything from me or anyone else... I am looking for a criteria so that if a member passes that criteria he/she gets the space for a year or two years and thats it... no room for any interference on hat the member's project is and who am I to decide wether a project will be successfull or not.

Dear Admin,

I respect your decision and like it personally.

Thanks and regards,
Pothi.

Originally Posted by sb21pro

i meant, domains not storage
there there are ways to host multiple domains from a single hosting account.
not redirect, totally different sites

If the name server wont resolve that domain to the servers ip how would you host it? There is no other way but to redirect ... a 301 redirect may be but thats something search engines dont like... and that site's rankings would never be good.

Besides that when one domain is allowed there would be a restriction on number of data bases aswell...

Any by the way ... without getting into too much complications... not every one is cheeky like you... so thats no issue.

@admin

i dont think there are too many ppl interested here to get free space..
u can make a poll or a separate thread and chk out how many of them are really interested...

Yeh looks like it only going to be a handfull ... will create a poll soon

Dear Admin,

I'm eagerly waiting for the poll.

Thanks and regards,
Pothi.

poll for what?

Poll to ask how many members would like to take free hosting.

Thanks a lot for this Admin.You keep coming up with ideas to help us..
I am waiting for the poll...

Well, Admin
Here is my basic idea regarding Free hosting.

1) Free hosting never provides TLD's but one can use features like [Parking,Addon,Transfer & Buy] with free+full DNS support.

2) Free hosing is always in this format [yourdomain.maindomain.com].

3) Free hosting space is always 400MB space 6 - 14 GB bandwidth/every month transfer.

Well most of the members like me use free hosts with supports mysql databases,PHP,Perl,Asp.net for Topsite hosting and they use more bandwidth as more members come.

4) Well, 10-20 mb is of no use for most of the members as one will not look at it, just move and continue search.

5) Inorder to use free hosts, a person must register at forums and make posts and not spams.

6) For free hosts, one will need to use request mode for getting more and more features.

7) You must provide some SEO, Webmaster tools, since most of the free hosts don't have them and it will be surely a plus point.

8) As always, Donations are welcome

Will be posted as i get time.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

Well, Admin
Here is my basic idea regarding Free hosting.

1) Free hosting never provides TLD's but one can use features like [Parking,Addon,Transfer & Buy] with free+full DNS support.

How on the earth, they(free web hosts) could provide a TLD for free.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

2) Free hosing is always in this format [yourdomain.maindomain.com].

If we have a TLD, we can use ours. That's what I did.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

3) Free hosting space is always 400MB space 6 - 14 GB bandwidth/every month transfer.

The hosting space varies between 100 MB to few GBs. The same *kind* of thing with bandwidth per month.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

Well most of the members like me use free hosts with supports mysql databases,PHP,Perl,Asp.net for Topsite hosting and they use more bandwidth as more members come.

More members -> more income -> go to paid hosting. Simple logic.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

4) Well, 10-20 mb is of no use for most of the members as one will not look at it, just move and continue search.

I don't understand this point. And I don't understand who gives 10-20 mb space. You said all free hosting companies give 400MB space. You mean to say 10-20 MB won't be enough for all? It may not be enough for you. I've been using only less than 1MB of my actual hosting space of 250 MB given by my free hosting provider (byethost) and I've been using it wisely to sell my services.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

5) Inorder to use free hosts, a person must register at forums and make posts and not spams.

My host never asked me (or anyone else) to do so. In fact, half of the free web hosts don't have such kind of forum posting condition, but have different conditions like ads in the first and/or every page. Some don't have any condition at all except limited space, bandwidth and limited (php, mysql etc) functionality.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

6) For free hosts, one will need to use request mode for getting more and more features.

Only *very* few do so. Others don't even bother to look at our request mails.

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

7) You must provide some SEO, Webmaster tools, since most of the free hosts don't have them and it will be surely a plus point.

Who must provide?

Originally Posted by AmitTeli

8) As always, Donations are welcome

To whom? To the free web host? I never heard this. Anyway instead of giving donations, one could easily go for paid hosting. I hope this makes sense.


Hope to see you soon in other threads, AmitTeli.

-- Pothi.

Well Pothi, Firstly it seems you are using Byethost Services inorder to host your site, but the major issue is that, they inject SQL injection and deactivate many sites.

Secondly, I would say if you setup a Topsite it will take 21mb of the disk-space & SQL and 10mb per member that you get, so more members = more space.

Thirdly, Donations are usually for the free host provider, in this case " it is for Admin, since he is thinking to provide free hosting in the near future " and it is done inorder to extend quality of the services and upkeep.

huh!!..why so less activity in this "online jobs" section from past 2 days...