If you keep the insults out of it, you are free to start a new one. But people hae been starting threads like that for the last 10 years. Nothing will change.It was a minirant about how the free hosting industry is full of retarded kids.
Keep the insults out?
They are needed, crush the childrens self esteem they'll quit :evilb:
Like the BBB, this site is pro-business and not pro-consumer.
There's no "business" about it. I'd say less that 5% of the "companies" that advertise here are even real. They're just made up by dumb asses living in their parent's basements. Hardly anyone has actually gone through the process of legally starting their "company" and I feel that's part of the problem here. If all "hosts" were required to provide proof of their business entity's existence BEFORE being able to post offers, almost all of these dumb --- kids posting stupid offers would be gone.
But a lot of startups that haven't gone that far yet would also be unable to post here, and the community would rapidly degrade towards elitist people with money only. Filing that kind of thing is expensive, and a new startup often is already strapped for cash just getting their feet wet. They need to be able to get used to running their business to make sure they can handle it before going official.
Although it is interesting to note that there has been a lot fewer new hosts coming here to advertise recently. I wonder why that is.
Right! But then there has to be some incentive to get the hostees to post when they are browsing in the Free Webhosting Directory. When I first visited the Free Webhosting Directory to find a Free Webhost, I had been completely unaware of a treasure trove of info in the discussion forum. My eyes had been exclusively focused on finding and filtering information in the Free Webhosting Directory. If I had known how valuable the Forum was, I'd have posted here much sooner. The only reason I finally started posting here was in order to get a review up in the Free Webhosting Directory, and then I got hooked.deeplist, that may be true, but when I say business there I mean those whole sell or give away hosting. IE the Hosts. This site should not be pro-host, it should be pro hostee. Sadly, this just isn't the case.
May as well close the forum down then. There aren't a lot of free hosts that are likely to register their little "business". Many an established host started off as one of these wannabes that you're all against.Completely agree that registered businesses should be the only ones allowed to advertise.
May as well close the forum down then. There aren't a lot of free hosts that are likely to register their little "business". Many an established host started off as one of these wannabes that you're all against.
Give them a chance and quit shooting them down in flames for trying. As with the last 10 years the majority of them will fail and will repeat and rinse for the next 10 years to come. If you don't like what they post, pass by the thread and leave them alone.
Imagine if I went and opened a McDonald's on the local street corner to "get my feet wet" and "see if I can handle it" before going official, without having the appropriate licenses, permits, etc. Do you think the state and city would go for that?
People seem to think that rules relating to business do not apply on the Internet. And unfortunately, there is no regulation. The states and countries don't hunt these kids down for operating illegal businesses. Being strapped for cash absolutely does not excuse you from not going about the offical and appropriate means of creating a business. If you're strapped for cash, you probably shouldn't be opening a "business" in the first place.
Completely agree that registered businesses should be the only ones allowed to advertise. It would not be a difficult thing for the mods here to verify, and would cut down on the illegal businesses. Secondly, there should be an age verification. Nobody under 18 should be allowed to advertise, since technically speaking (at least here in the US), minors can't engage in contracts. They really shouldn't be conducting business in the first place.
Probably because they come here making ridiculous offers and get blasted by the legitimate folk.
May as well close the forum down then. There aren't a lot of free hosts that are likely to register their little "business". Many an established host started off as one of these wannabes that you're all against.
Give them a chance and quit shooting them down in flames for trying. As with the last 10 years the majority of them will fail and will repeat and rinse for the next 10 years to come. If you don't like what they post, pass by the thread and leave them alone.
There's also a scale thing to consider. Running a restaurant as a hobby just plain doesn't fit, it is too large and involved to really be practical. And anything that has necessary permits and licensing requirements you kind of do have to have registered in order to get the necessary permits to do it, it cannot legally be done as a hobby.
Running a webhost may be considered a "hobby" to you, but if you're making money from it, how is it still a hobby? A hobby is something you do in your spare time because you enjoy doing it, not something you make money from. Once you start making money, it's a source of income, regardless of whether you consider it to be a hobby or not, the source of the income still needs to be reported to the IRS and the name that you're doing business under needs to be registered with your state's SOS.
That whole bit about not having the money up front to cover licensing costs is a load of crap too because it typically costs between $30 and $50 to file with a state's SOS devision and if you can't come up with thirty bucks to go about this the right way, then you have no business running a "company" at all.
And that's interesting that it can be done so cheap. Kinda makes it pointless if you think about it, because if a business is registered the business eats the liability and can simply disappear, whereas someone running a host in their own name without registration is personally liable for anything bad that happens out of their own pockets.
But starting a web host as a hobby project that matures into a full fledged business is completely possible.