[geeks] I give up with the consumer web hosting already...

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Aug 12 09:34:46 CDT 2005


On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:46:25PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:

> I give up already trying to understand the consumer web hosting market.
> 
> I decided, after reading http://www.BlogOfACeo.com, to try my hand at
> $3 a month hosting accounts, just like he did... he got to 1000
> accounts, so is probably making $2k to 2.5K a month after expenses. 
> 
> Check out the Google ads above my page at:
> 
> http://www.zill.net/threed.html
> 
> (yes, I could turn them off with Google's site filter, but that is not
> the point)... 
> 
> Free this, free that... one ad was for 5GB disk space and 10GB
> transfer, for $3.95 a month! 

Yes, but the service from the people advertised with the google ads
would probably be far, far worse, and hopefully the discerning consumer
would know to go someplace better.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd
jdboyd at jdboyd.net
http://www.jdboyd.net/
http://www.joshuaboyd.org/



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