Innovative idea's...

[syanet]

FTP and CGI as well as domain hosting are all going to be avilable. About adult hosting: I don't know if it will be possible due the advertisers policies, but I'll see what I can do.

[gyrbo]

OK just an idee i'm playing with.
What is you hace about 100 credits for every MB of space you want you pay 1 credit. For 1GB bandwidth you pay also 1 credit. For CGI, you pay 10credits, For MySQL you also pay 10 credits. No ads 100 credits. And so on. Good idee?
At that way people can choose what they want. If you don't need CGI or PHP, you don't ask for it and you can get more space. If you need mutch banwidth you just cut in the space.

BTW that 100 credits are free. And you can buy more if you want (4$ for 100).

[Satelk]

I suggest also having ASP, 'cause some good scripts use it, like Snitz Forum.

[jimmacr]

ASP support on linux/bsd is kinda shaky and also expensive. Mabe not mod_asp, but I havn't seem much about it.

[syanet]

Originally posted by gyrbo
BTW that 100 credits are free. And you can buy more if you want (4$ for 100).

Why bother converting money to credits. I could just charge $2 for this feature, $3 for that feaures, etc.

ASP probaly isn't worth the trouble.

[newmodel]

I believe what gyrbo's main idea was that a lot of free servers have stuff that some people don't use....a user might not use cgi and prefer some more space in return for not using cgi...

All these ideas would be good, but let's see if it can be done or not. Are you up to the challenge?

[Canuckkev]

Yeah, good idea, gyrbro. And lets say they get more credits for the amout of traffic they bring, or how long they stay with the host. And I don't think converting it to money would be good, like $3 for this, $2 for that, because like many people on fee hosts, they donn't have the means of getting you the money. Pretty much anyone without a credit card would have this problem. The internet needs more things like Beenz, where you can colect credits, and buy stuff with it online, without ever converting it to real money.

[Coolin]

I don't understand what all this credit fuss is for. If you want to offer the feature, why ask them to do all this stuff for a simple feature? This will only turn away your visitors. The only site I've seen implement this system successfully is Neopets, but then again, Neopets' users are usually kids who fall for this stuff.

[syanet]

I think it would be to confusing for many people, so I want even bother. To tell you the truth, it's to confusing for me . If I can arrange it, how many MySQL databases should be offered unnder a free plan? how about under a $5 a month plan?

[LeX]

About the credit thing...

If it's possible, then you can tempt your members into clicking on your banners by offering 1 credit or point for each click, then when you've collected like 1000 credits you get ad-free hosting for a month or however much clicks is needed to survive for a month, etc. And you can have plans for 2 months, 3 months, a year...

Just an idea.

[syanet]

Originally posted by LeX
About the credit thing...

If it's possible, then you can tempt your members into clicking on your banners by offering 1 credit or point for each click, then when you've collected like 1000 credits you get ad-free hosting for a month or however much clicks is needed to survive for a month, etc. And you can have plans for 2 months, 3 months, a year...

Just an idea.

It would be to hard to track individual clicks though. Lets forget the credit idea was ever mentioned. It's to complicated to implement.

[boredboi]

yeah.....
no early releasing when unprepared...

a good helpful community would be very useful
they can help in support, give ideas, like this...

u should haf something that would encourage users to not kill banners... or if you have a good community u could have systems where posting a msg gets u 1 free kb...

or something like SitepointForums... karma... etc...

[bobyx]

About the ads...
Why don't you offer your visitors to choose from user placeable banners and one-time pop behinds (that only pop at the first page - you can use cookies for that).
I know that I like one-time popbehinds more than banners. Plus you get more money with the pops.
And just make sure that you offer SSI

Here's also an idea:
Offer domain hosting and free webbased email - so that domain users can offer their visitor free email @their site. You can then put banners in the email and earn even more money.

[syanet]

Originally posted by bobyx
About the ads...
Why don't you offer your visitors to choose from user placeable banners and one-time pop behinds (that only pop at the first page - you can use cookies for that).
I know that I like one-time popbehinds more than banners. Plus you get more money with the pops.
And just make sure that you offer SSI

Here's also an idea:
Offer domain hosting and free webbased email - so that domain users can offer their visitor free email @their site. You can then put banners in the email and earn even more money.

Good post. SSI is a most, so it's included. Signups are automatic, so domain or subdomain, it makes no difference. Online e-mail is a question mark right now. I can't find an easy solution (I'm open to suggestion though). However users will get a free POP3 account with multiple aliases. I'm leaning towards giving the user an option for either once per 12 hour pop ups, placeable banners or an ad bar (Any other options are welcome).

[syanet]

What is everyone thoughts on one popup per 12 hour period per unique user?