Angelcities.com Now Has Ads

[TheRunes]

I am a current member os angelcities.com and as of soon they will be putting ads on our pages. You guys might want to change that in the database...

[Christy]

Not surprising. There is no such thing as an no ad free webspace provider.

[Sphosting.com]

Yes there is and sphosting.com is 100% ad free

[Technics]

For how long?.

[Sphosting.com]

We have striped down services (no ftp access) so members update through the member section and actually generate more revenue that way if we were to place banner ads on members homepages. We have 1.20% CTR which is 3 nearly 4 times above the industry standard seeing us generate higher revenue from less impressions.

[Technics]

that won't last forever. At somepoint in the near future you'll put banners on peoples pages or offer paid hosting.

[Sphosting.com]

in the future we are planning to offer a paid hosting solution, which has extra services, includes ftp for a monthly fee. But our ad free hosting plan will still stay unchanged.

[Technics]

::cough:: Ok ::cough::

[Sphosting.com]

cough all you like : )

[Ron Seigel]

You guys are so frickin smart!!! You've figured out something nobody else has been able to. [/sarcasm]

Who the heck is Sphosting.com anyway. Nobody's even heard of you. You're nothing and you'll wither and die long before anyone cares you're gone. I've seen it wayyyy too many times here to EVER believe that ad-free hosting can last. PERIOD! If Crosswinds couldn't do it (and anyone who believes that Crosswinds is EVER going to remove that horrid popup is NUTS) then you sure as hell can't.

my .02...deal with it!

[Koolguy]

From my knowlege nobody ever clicks on the ads within the web-based admin pannel. Usually the webmaster is too busy building his/her site.

[Gcites]

Unless they tell there webmasters to click on them which is against most ad agencies tos

[Chicken]

Originally posted by Sphosting.com
We have striped down services (no ftp access) so members update through the member section and actually generate more revenue that way if we were to place banner ads on members homepages. We have 1.20% CTR which is 3 nearly 4 times above the industry standard seeing us generate higher revenue from less impressions.

What you are doing is noble but for a cost to profit ratio, members clicking on ads in their web building section isn't going to pay your bills. This must be small, or you'd have realized that. Not tryig to insult you )please don't misunderstand me), but ads on member's pages is what is going to get you money, not on the admin. side.

[Ron Seigel]

Point #1: Crosswinds isn't making enough money so they put popups on member sites.

Point #2: Crosswinds (probably) realizes that they're not making enough with the popups either so they resort to begging members for donations.

What makes you (or Crosswinds for that matter) think that in the future if they remove the popups that they'll be making enough to sustain the business? All they get out of the deal is some operating capital (which I might add *should *be built into the INCOME of any intelligent business). What happens when they've upgraded the hardware and a year from now they run out of money again? Why would they suddenly have enough income to sustain the business then without ads when they didn't have enough income now? Easy answer - they won't. Do you believe that this is the only new hardware that Crosswinds will ever need to buy? Do you think that the bandwidth fairy is going to come along and give them free bandwidth? The bills are only going to get bigger. At some point in the future the "new" servers will become obsolete and worthless and they'll have to do it all over again.

I would NEVER put my trust in a company that admits that they're not making enough money to sustain their business.

This makes perfect sense to me. Why doesn't it make any sense to all the Crosswinds groupies? Perhaps you're biased?!?!

(BTW...why is Geocities 'greedy'?? Because they actually prefer to make a profit? Because they are actually willing to give you something for FREE that costs them money in exchange for you putting banners on your site with the expectation that you'll make them a profit? [sarcasm]Shame on them.[/sarcasm] I suppose you think Exxon should give you free gas too since they shouldn't be so 'greedy' and expect you to actually pay for it.)

[Technics]

We love you Ron .