Jagera.com - The cat is out of the bag!

[S.K]

So, it was too good to be true! As many predicted, Jagera is dead as a free host! They want $100 a year to continue the free (sic) hosting!
But who'll bet their penny on them? Folks can as well go to real professional hosts that money can get.
Yet another casualty in the fwh stable. Is it the forerunner for many to follow? With the internet advertising hitting the nadir, I think there is going to be a heavy mortality rate!
Very sad.
S.K

[Lynks]

This is old news SK. It has been like this for over 2 months now....

I luckily got an account with them (Free) and I am very pleased. I am also considering upgrading my account. Their tech support is great (The Best Infact) and the features are brilliant. Though the $100 dollar fee now is not justified for their services there are better payed hosts out there for $100.

[S.K]

Originally posted by Lynks
This is old news SK. It has been like this for over 2 months now....

But I got an email from them only now about this. Perhaps the guilletin has a queue!


I luckily got an account with them (Free) and I am very pleased. I am also considering upgrading my account. Their tech support is great (The Best Infact) and the features are brilliant. Though the $100 dollar fee now is not justified for their services there are better payed hosts out there for $100.

So you are going to pay up $100 and continue in spite of your feeling that it is not justified?
Let me understand correctly.
S.K

[Benjermin]

What in the world does (sic) mean? I keep hearing that many many times in several communities.

[Chris]

it basically means intentionally so written; which means that if someone spelled something wrong and the other person is reproducing it then they will reproduce the misspelling to show that it is exact.

[Cracker]

Originally posted by S.K
With the internet advertising hitting the nadir, I think there is going to be a heavy mortality rate!
Very sad.

... and the only FWP's that will remain standing after all of this will be Yahoo!Geocities, LycosAngelfire, LycosTripod, Fortunecity, and Nbci. That's even sadder.

[Coolin]

I have (though though not much of it) faith in the internet. Other FWP's will survive alongside those giants. And while beginners use those beginner FWP's, we will use the others.

[Cracker]

Originally posted by Coolin
I have (though though not much of it) faith in the internet. Other FWP's will survive alongside those giants.

I used to have faith in small FWP's once (Crosswinds), but I lost it when they had to resort to pulling a "Spaceports" on their members; that is, they had to throttle download speeds of large files (such as my .wav's, that's why I'm using Nbci for their "unlimited" webspace - no, there is no 100 mb limit there; that's a bunch of lies). My .wav's would give up halfway through the downloading and just play whatever downloaded. I'm sure that a small FWP is fine if you're only storing HTML files and small graphics, but you would need one of those giants if you wanted to store large files, since they're already rich up to their ears and won't ever have to throttle download speeds.

[meow]

Originally posted by S.K
So, it was too good to be true!

Sic transit gloria mundi
(Thus passes the glory of the world)

He he

[S.K]

Each one to his cuppa!
Wav&mp3-aficianados look at the fat, scripto-maniacs at back-ends, niche-clubs at bandwidth and content-pundits at speed.
But, I am trying to prophesy a bit. Unless the fwp business is lucrative or they have some other source of income to sustain, the geek-players will struggle to exist; only the basic hosts like Lycos, geocities may survive.
I wish to be proved wrong by time!
Cheers (may be!)
S.K