Hi All,
We have, thus far, been an advertising-based model of hosting, whereby clients can pay for hosting by placing advertising on their website. Having figured out how to use this model successfully, we are now looking to expand by offering a post to host model as an alternative.
So, clients could do one, the other, or both, and in exchange, receive credits. These are our virtual currency, and can be exchanged for all kinds of extras. Effective April, hosting will cost a very small number of credits, based on individual resource usage.
I really like the idea Frihost uses of changing the payout based on length of the post, but I'm sure you're a creative bunch. Is there any better way to control the payout than just length?
I am really looking for a system that can decide based on quality. For example, posts with typos, incorrect grammar, etc... may receive less credits. In addition, is there any way to perhaps have some kind of reputation where users get more credits per post as that increases?
And finally, I need to make it so editing or deleting posts will update the credit count correctly. I'm using PHPBB. What modifications would I need to make to do something like this?
We have, thus far, been an advertising-based model of hosting, whereby clients can pay for hosting by placing advertising on their website. Having figured out how to use this model successfully, we are now looking to expand by offering a post to host model as an alternative.
So, clients could do one, the other, or both, and in exchange, receive credits. These are our virtual currency, and can be exchanged for all kinds of extras. Effective April, hosting will cost a very small number of credits, based on individual resource usage.
I really like the idea Frihost uses of changing the payout based on length of the post, but I'm sure you're a creative bunch. Is there any better way to control the payout than just length?
I am really looking for a system that can decide based on quality. For example, posts with typos, incorrect grammar, etc... may receive less credits. In addition, is there any way to perhaps have some kind of reputation where users get more credits per post as that increases?
And finally, I need to make it so editing or deleting posts will update the credit count correctly. I'm using PHPBB. What modifications would I need to make to do something like this?